36 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [February, 



unlike that of Archippus. The imago is the dead-leaf butterfly 

 of North America and with its wings erect defies detection, as 

 the pupa, under its shelter of green leaves, escapes the notice of 

 its enemies. The young larva of andria, with its perch made 

 of excretory matter, allies the insect to Limenitis disippus, while 

 its case-making gives it a kinship to the Papilios. 



The seed of Croton capitation is a hemispheric nut and fur- 

 nishes food for a small black weevil, a slender, long-snouted 

 fellow, that doubles himself all up like a possum when you dis- 

 turb him. I have taken numbers of these small beetles in the 

 early morning on the fruit heads, but hidden in the abandoned 

 leaf cases as the day grows warmer. 



Just inside a neighbor's fence is a small bunch of milkweed, 

 and this has furnished a score of Danais archippus larvae. From 

 the pupae of a number of these, maggots of a dipter escaped by 

 ; 'glue" threads to the bottom of the box where they pupated 

 and later emerged as flies. 



One archippiis pupa fell, as it was " born" without a cremaster. 

 The posterior extremity of this pupa was well formed, a smooth 

 black dot taking the place of the anchor. This peculiarity of 

 structure was probably due to the diseased condition of the larva. 



Over on the hill, a few hundred yards away, are walnut trees 

 that furnish larvae of luna and jug land is, while from the papaw 

 bushes, on the side, I have taken the caterpillars of Papilio ajax 

 and the hawk Dolba hylceus. 



To the south, a quarter of a mile, is Noix Creek bottom, and 

 there numbers of Terias lisa, Nathalis iole and Callidryas eubulc 

 are found sipping at mud or flitting about the low weeds at mid- 

 day. On the iron-weed blossoms are the Papilios: cresphontes, 

 turnus, troilus, philenor and ajax, while along the dusty road 

 is Junonia ccenia flies. 



A rare butterfly in this county is Melitcca phceton, but a single 

 specimen having been taken here, so far as I know. On the 

 Hinkston Creek, in Boone County, early last June, I found this 

 butterfly fairly common. 



Mr. Dodge reports a single specimen each of Terias mexicana 

 and Feniseca tarquinius from near Louisiana. 



Along the C. A. & St. L. R. R. track, halfway between the 

 creek and home, the low willow bushes have given me thirteen 

 fine larvae of the Sphinx, Smerinthus geminatus and many young 



