Dec., '09] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 437 



Clarke City, a Camberwell Beauty, Vanessa antiopa; a small dragon 

 fly, Agrion cyathigenim, and a geometrical moth, Cidaria immanata, 

 all typical British. It would be interesting to know which of these in- 

 sects are the old inhabitants of the subpolar regions and which have 

 been introduced by commerce; the water beetle is also found in Green- 

 land. I have over and above an apterous Oil Beetle, Mcloe cordillcrae, 

 purporting to come from South America, which is so like its British 

 cousins that one is tempted to ask how long it took to walk on its 

 heteromerus legs to Chile. 



As regards Pieris napi, an English entomologist would recognize it 

 as such. I have Mr. W. G. Wright's Butterflies of the West Coast at 

 hand and most of the species on Plate VI we over here would call 

 seasonal or local forms of napi, which varies the same and to a great IT 

 extent in the British Islands, I do not quite recognize his bryoniac, but 

 I suppose he has identified it with the Swiss mountain form, it most 

 resembles the specimen I have from Cape Race and may be the sub- 

 polar ..i i ral form; the other species on Plate VI seem to be P. nipi 

 and \vh;.t I imagine to be hybrids between napi and rapi, we have 

 them also in Britain. A. H. SWINTON, Totnes, Devonshire, England 



THE meetings in Boston promise to be very interesting and a large 

 attendance is expected. 



NOTES on the Occurrence of Some Butterflies rare in Massachusetts 

 and Maine. 



I. Jiinonia coeiiia. On August I2th, 1909, I captured two specimens 

 of this insect at Isle au Haut, Maine, (an island twenty miles to the 

 eastward of Rn< kland). They were both hovering around a small pud- 

 dle, surrounded by milkweek on a path leading up the one mountain of 

 the island, .'',nl were decidedly darker in color than those that I havt 

 seen taken in the Southern States. I find that Mr. \V. C. Wood reports 

 on page 3^0 of the NEWS for October 1908, that he saw a specimen at 

 York, Maine, and that this was also decidedly darker thai the South- 

 ern specimens. I do not know of this species having been taken as far 

 North as this before. 



II. Euptoicta claudia. I captured one of this species in August 1901, 

 at Wareham, Mass., but have never seen a sign of one so far North 

 as that until September nth, 1909, when I saw, close by, but was un- 

 able to capture one at Gerrish Island, not far from Kiltery, Maine. 



III. Catopsila culntlc. I have seen various records of this insect 

 being taken in Massachusetts, but I have never seen an account of 

 them being plentiful. In a small garden on the Island of Chappaqui- 

 dick, to the eastward of Martha's Vineyard, on September jist. 1909. 

 1 was greatly surprised to see several large yellow flies darting here 



