208 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



c. Antennas longer than the body in both sexes, the third 

 joint only slightly longer than the fourth. Punctuation 

 of thorax regular. 



Elytra very indistinctly punctured, especially at 

 apex, the disk with angulate fascia behind the 

 middle, tips feebly obliquely truncate. .16-. 24 



in biustus, Lee. 



Elytra distinctly punctured over entire surface, 

 disk with acutely angulated fascia, apex slightly 

 prolonged, not obliquely truncate. .16 -.24 



in parvus, Lee. 



cc. Antennae scarcely longer than the body even in the male, 

 the third joint conspicuously longer than the fourth. 

 Robust, brownish, surface of prothorax roughly tubercu- 

 late, pubescent, punctures sparse, irregularly 

 placed. Elytra with raised tubercles or 

 ridges, and with grayish and whitish pubes- 

 cence which tends to form a post-median 

 transverse band broadest at the suture, the "^' ^^" 

 pubescence becoming darker anteriorly. Tip dark. 



.32-.40 in. (fig. 33) aculifer. Say. 



The food plants of several of the above are recorded. Z. macula 

 is known to breed in beech, hickory, walnut, butternut, and chestnut ; 

 sexguttatus in pine ; and aculifer in oak, apple, sycamore, and osage 

 orange. 



Rare Butterflies. — On the 8th day of May, Mr. James Walker 

 captured, in a cedar swamp, near Orillia, Ont., a specimen of Thecla 

 tata, Edw. This butterfly has hitherto only been recorded in Canada, 

 from London and York Mills in this Province, and from a few localities 

 in the Province of Quebec. 



Mr. C. E. Grant, of Orillia, has recently taken a specimen of the 

 melanic form of Colias philodice, the yellow on the wings being replaced 

 by dark scales. It is apparently somewhat similar to the aberration 

 recorded by Mr. Dwight Brainerd (C. E., XXVIII., p. 305), which he 

 took at Edgartown, Mass., last year. Mr. Grant has also taken at 

 Orillia, for the first time, Papilio troilus and Lyccena corny nt as, making 

 the total number of butterflies from that locality sixty-two. 



Papilio Ajax (a perfect specimen) has again been seen at Port 

 Hope on the 24th of July. 



