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horn, black above, orange beneath. The larva presents two colors, pale 

 green and brown, which are not sexual distinctions. Eggs of all pale 

 green, slightly flattened. Geo. W. Peck, New York. 



NOTES ON VANESSA LINTNERII, FITCH. ' 



In 1856, Dr. Fitch described a butterfly allied to Antiopa, and named 

 it in honor of its discoverer, J.'H. Lintner. 



A butterfly was captured here last summer that is nearly as far removed 

 from a?itiopa as Lintnerii. I copy Dr. Fitch's description, and point out 

 the differences. He says : " This butterfly is closely related to antiopa, or 

 white bordered butterfly. Its wings have perfectly the same form and are 

 similarly colored to those of antiopa, but their pale border is twice as 

 broad as in that species, occupying a third of the length of the wings, and 

 it is wholly destitute of the row of blue spots which occur in antiopa for- 

 ward of the border." 



The specimen before me differs from the one described by the Doctor 

 in two respects : the wings are shorter proportionally than in antiopa, and 

 shaped more like those of Vanessa J-albwn. In the second place, the 

 lobes or tails of the hind pair of wings are larger and not as pointed as 

 those of antiopa. Again, the Doctor says its ground color is deep rusty 

 brown, much more tinged with liver reddish than antiopa; the fore margin 

 of the anterior wings is black, freckled with small transverse white streaks 

 and lines, but is destitute of the two white spots which are seen in 

 antiopa. My specimen has the white spots mentioned by the Doctor, but 

 they are small and not well denned. The specimen before me coincides 

 with the remainder of Dr. Fitch's description, which is as follows : 



" The broad outer border is of a tarnished pale ochre yellow hue, 

 speckled with black the same as in antiopa, and becomes quite narrow at 

 the inner angle of the hind pair of wings. The wings beneath are similar 

 to those of antiopa, but are darker and without any sprinkling of ash gray 

 scales or any whitish crescent in the middle of the hind pair, and the 

 border is speckled with gray whitish in wavy transverse streaks, without 

 forming the distinct band which is seen in antiopa." 



Robert Bunker, Rochester, N. Y. 



Errata. — On page 160 of present volume, 15 lines from bottom, " P. 

 O. Zeller" should be P. C, and 3 lines from bottom, " since he,*' &c, 

 should read " since — ." This sentence has no reference to Mr. Scudder, 

 which by an error of the printer it is made to have. 



On page 213, 17 lines from bottom, for Hypsaphalus read Hypocephalus. 



