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plate apparently smooth, ventral plate bearing transverse rugosities ; 

 head small, retracted into first segment; antennae three-jointed; labrum 

 comparatively large, protruded ; mandibles short, strong, somewhat 

 spoon-shaped, bifid at apex; maxillary palpi two-jointed; labium some- 

 what protruded ; spiracles, one large one on each side of second seg- 

 ment and a smaller one on each anterior dorso-lateral surface of seg- 

 ments four to eleven. The embryonic larva appears to be more 

 characteristically "buprestid" in shape. Viewed through the transparent 

 nvering, the anterior third of the body is wide and flat and the 

 remaining two-thirds narrow and tail-like, folded against anterior 

 third. After hatching it becomes oval. 



Pupa. Length about 3 mm. Width about 1.6 mm. Color whitish; 

 shape oval, like that of adult. Abdomen terminated by a pair of 

 minute tubercles ; remainder of body apparently devoid of hairs or 

 spines. 



Adult. Pachyschclus lacrifiatus. This was described by Say in 

 1836 (Trans. Am. Phil. Soc., vol. vi, p. 164). The original description 

 was recently published by Nicolay and Weiss in their review of the 

 igenus Pachyschelus (Jour. N. Y. Ent. Soc., vol. xxviii, p. 140, 1920) 

 ;>nd need not be repeated here. 



On Anomalies in Wing Markings of Basilarchia 

 astyanax Fab. (Lepid., Rhop. : Nymphalidae). 



By WARO NAKAHARA, New York City. 



Among some fifty specimens of Basilarchia astyancix Fab. 

 (=- Limcnitis Ursula Godt.) collected by me at Elmhurst, Long 

 Island (near New York City) during the early part of August, 

 1921, two interesting aberrant specimens have been found. 

 In one there is a complete submarginal row of red spots to the 

 hindwing, upperside, exactly as in B. arthcmis Dru. The speci- 

 men is a male with appearance entirely typical of astyana.v. 

 excepting the character just mentioned. In the other, a female 

 specimen, there are elongated conspicuous red patches, one in 

 each interspace, on the underside of the hindwing. This speci- 

 men appears typical of astyana.v, as far as the upperside is con- 

 cerned. Needless to say that almost every intergradation has 

 been found between the typical astyana.v and the two extremes 

 here described. 



It is well known that in form proscrpina Kdw. of arthcmis 

 the white bands are often completely obsolete, thus closely re- 

 sembling ast \ana.\-. The only difference between the two spe- 

 cies then consists of the presence in arthcmis and the absence 



