310 TMK < VNAUIAN KNTOilUlAlOaiT. 



Win H. Kdwards gives Nevada and Arizona aUo, but I do not know any 

 precise localities from either of these States. 



Chrysop/uinus mariposa Reakirt. — I find in my note-book a brief 

 description of the egg of this species, found adhering to the al)d()men of a 

 9 taken at Martina, Missoula County, Montana, in June, 1906. In tljis 

 case, as I have occasionally noticed in various species, the egg was pro- 

 truded while the 9 was in the final pre mortem state in the cyanide bottle. 

 The description may be transcribed to : Of the usual hemispherical form, 

 marked with numerous, somewhat shallow, polygonal or semicircular 

 dei»ressions ; colour a delicate creamishgreen ; it proved infertile. 

 Lembert has observed oviposition on the stalk and under side of leaves 

 of Vaccinium in Yosemite. Strecker, in his Lepidoptera, Heterocera 

 Rhopalocera, p. 91, 1S74. writes of mariposa : "Lower California. I 

 have seen no examples of this e.\cept the original types now in my cabinet." 

 Hut Reakirt, in his description oi tnariposa, (IVoc. Ent. Soc. Phila.,VI. p. 

 149, foot note, 1866), gives California as the type locality. Afnriposa is a 

 strikingly distinct species, and, to my mind, one of the daintiest of the genus. 



Cal pedes ethlius Cramer { chemnls Fab., obyut/ius H. L.). — Mr. Wm. 

 Schrceder, of Los Angeles, bred three specimens of this tropical species 

 from larv;e found on Canna in July, 1906. Ethlius is essentially a 

 southern s|)ecies, not uncommon in the Culf .States, from Te.xas to Florida, 

 and has been recorded from New York, where the eggs, larvie or pupae 

 were probably carried with the food-plant. In South .America to Buenos 

 Ayres, Central America, Mexico and West Indies ethlius is said to be 

 common. The occurrence in California appears to be accidental. 



Eudamus proteus Linn. — This species must apparently be added to 

 the already long list of buttertly emigrants to California. Prof J. J. 

 Rivers has recently recorded it (Proc. So. Cal. Acad. Sciences) from the 

 vicinity of Santa Monica, and Mr. W. S. Wright (Journ. N. Y. Knt. Soc, 

 XVI, p. 166, 1908) reports it as being fairly common about San Diego. 

 Mr. Wm. Schrceder look a good series o{ proteus several years ago in the 

 garden of the California Hospital at Los Angeles, and it is said by other 

 collectors to be abundant in the l)ean fields near that city. Still another 

 specimen was taken in an alfalfa field at Porterville, in Tulare County, 

 .\iigust, 1904, by Mr. W . M. Davidson, giving />r<j/^//j quite an extended 

 range in this Stale. The food-plants, as in the east, appear to be 

 leguminous plants. 



Maileil September Stti, 1910. 



