Vol. XXJi] KXTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 13 



caon flew lazily about. Tlwuaos jnrenalis we found abundant, 

 and several early Melitaea u'rightii and M. an gust a were net- 

 ted. The everywhere P. rapac, E. sara reakirti and others 

 were noticed. We had an additional pleasure in having the 

 exact type localities of Melitaea zvrightii, M. an gust a and M. 

 ccrrita pointed out to us. 



About three o'clock our appetites got the best of us, and 

 in a half falling-sliding manner we returned to the buggy, 

 where cold chicken, pie, and other related species of edibles 

 awaited us. Needless to say, we were quite as successful with 

 these as we had been with the butterflies. Still another pleas- 

 ant hour remained before our train pulled out, and we found 

 the time all too short. Mr. Wright ceremoniously labeled the 

 day "Cerrita Day," after M. cerrita, over whose type locality 

 we had sacrilegiously tramped. The laws of nomenclature 

 compels us, to our regret, to change the name to "Wrightii 

 Day," perhaps more appropriate, as cerrita was taken in com- 

 pany with and appears to be but an extreme aberration of M. 

 leanira wrighti Edwards. 



Truly, we shall look back with pleasure to "Wrightii Day" 

 our first introduction to the dainty Euchloc ccthura, and to 

 William Greenwood Wright, one of the few men now living 

 who had for his contemporaries and friends such men as Wm. 

 H. Edwards, Henry Edwards, Samuel H. Scudder, Hermann 

 Strecker, and Dr. Behr. 



Euchaeria socialis The larval nest of this interesting 

 species, closely allied to our Neophasia, is put to a curious use 

 by the Mexicans in the Sierra Madres of Sonora. The nest, 

 being of a tough and leathery texture, is deprived of its occu- 

 pants and becomes metamorphosed into an excellent tobacco 

 pouch. Many a senor, senora and dark-eyed senorita defty 

 roll their cigaritos from species of "My Lady Nicotine" drawn 

 from plundered larval nests of E. socialis. 



The Trustees of the Mass. Agric. College dedicated the new building 

 for Entomology and Zoology Friday, Nov. n, 1910, at Amherst, Mass. 



