26 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Jan., '22 



TACHINA MEI.LA Walker. Raleigh, April 8, 1908, CSB; Milbrook, 

 late May, 1915, bred from apple tree tent caterpillar, RWL; Murfrees- 

 boro, June 9, 1895, CWJ. 



TACHINA ROBCSTA Twnd. Hendersonville, June, 1907, FS; Spruce, 

 late May, 1912, FS ; Linville Falls, early June, 1920, FS. 



TACHINA RUSTICA Fallen. Blowing Rock, Sept. , 1909, ZPM. 



TACHINAPHYTO VARIABILIS Twnd. Swannanoa, July 10, 1913, CLM. 



TACHINAPHYTO (sp.). Raleigh, Sept. 29, 1920, five, CSB. 



TRICHOPHORA RUFICAUDA V. d. W. Raleigh, Hendersonville, Hot 

 Springs, Lake Waccamaw, Elizabeth City, late April to late October, 

 rather common. 



TRICHOPODA FORMOSA Wied. Hendersonville, June, 1907; Aquone, 

 mid May, 1901, FS. 



TRICHOPODA LANIPES Fab. Raleigh, mid June to early August, CSB. 



TRICHOPODA PENNIPES Fab. Raleigh, Cranberry, Linville, Southern 

 Pines, Lake Waccamaw, late May to September, common. 



TRICHOPODA PLUMIPES Fabr. Raleigh, late June, early Aug., CSB ; 

 late July, 1912, CLM; Kittrell, July 15, 1919, TBM. 



TRICHOPODA RADIATA Loew. Raleigh, mid July and early August, 

 CLAI and CSB. 



WINTHEMIA QUADRIPUSTULATA Fab. Has been bred from army worm 

 at Durham, Crabtree, Neuse, Terra Ceia, from fall army worm at Eden- 

 ton, and from larva of Perigaea sutor at Raleigh. Other localities : 

 Elizabeth City, Blowing Rock, Swannanoa, Black Mt., with a seasonal 

 range of May to October. 



WINTHEMIA (sp.). Linville Falls, late May. 1920, FS. 



XANTHOMELAENA ARCUATA Say. Hot Springs, Mrs. Slosson. 



XANTHOMELAENA ATRIPENNIS Say. Raleigh, early August, FS; late 

 June, 1920, CSB; Blowing Rock, Sept., 1915, FS ; Aug. 29, 1902, FS ; 

 Elizabethtown, Nov. 5, 1920, TBM. 



YPOPHAEMYIA MALACOSOMAE Twnd. Millbrook, bred from tent cater- 

 pillar, May, 1915-6, RWL. 



Some Cases of Aberrant Oviposition in 



Butterflies (Lep.)- 

 By W. BUTIIN, St. Clair Experiment Station, Port of Spain, 



Trinidad, B. W. I. 



When in Ecuador in 1920, I was the puzzled observer of 

 strangely perverted ovipositing habits on the part of three 

 widely differing species of Butterflies ; the abnormality of which 

 I speak I had never noticed previously nor have I ever heard 

 it remarked upon. In collecting wood-boring larvae I was 

 examining some newly felled forest trees, locally called 



