

196 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOt^OGIST. 



Melitaea phaeto7i, generally very rare here, was more abundant this 

 spring. I found the larvae feeding on Gerardia pedtcularis ; afterwards I 

 obtained eggs from confined females and found eggs out doors on same 

 plant. The eggs hatched. The larvse therefrom, and additional larvee 

 found out doors, feed on the above-named plant, and developed and spun 

 up as Mr. W. H. Edwards has it in his Butterflies of N. A., vol. ii., part 4. 



There grows another Gerardia here, the G. purpurea, on which the 

 larvae of J^unonia coenia feed. 



Callidryas eubule is found here in a few specimens every year ; last 

 year fresh specimens were in great abundance. 



Terias mexicana (worn). — I have captured a small and a large speci- 

 men of this species during several years collecting. 



Aug. W. Hoffmeister. 



Ft. Madison, Lee Co., Iowa, Sept. 7, 1881. 



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