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kindly determined by Mr. J. C. Crawford as Callimome sp. and 

 Zaglyptonottis schwarzi Cwfd., which we find hovering over and 

 alighting on the sunflower heads, and from their actions it is 

 suspected that they may be parasitic on the weevils. An effort 

 will be made this year to determine whether this is the case, and 

 whether they can be of any use if introduced in Illinois. A third 

 Chalcid common on the sunflower heads is Perilampns hyalinus 

 Say. 



Some years ago Mr. Busck reported of the Gelechiid Paltodora 

 similiella (Chamb.) that he had received specimens in poor condi- 

 tion, but apparently this species, reared from sunflower heads by 

 E. E. Bogue in Oklahoma. At Longmount, Colorado, Aug. 30, 

 1914, I found a number of small moths at flowers of Helianthus 

 Jenticularis, and when specimens were sent to Mr. Busck, it turned 

 out that they belonged to this same P. similiella, which is doubtless 

 a regular sunflower insect. 



A cutworm from a sunflower head, collected at Boulder, Aug. 

 16, gave a moth Oct. 4. It was the widely distributed Lycophotia 

 margaritosa Haw. {saucia Hbn.). 



In Sept., 1914, at Boulder, a larva of Phyciodes ismeria (carlota 

 Reak.) was found on Helianthus argophylliis in the garden; a new 

 food plant. On the ordinary sunflower young larvae of P. ismeria, 

 about 8 mm. long, were common October 5. Like Chlosyne lacinia, 

 this species evidently hibernates as a larva. 



The yellow Bombyliid fly, Phthiria sulphi rei Lw., visits sun- 

 flower heads at Boulder in August, but I found that it sometimes 

 got caught by the likewise cryptically coloured bug, Phymata 

 fasciata. 



NOTES ON SOME RECENTLY DESCRIBED SPECIES OF 

 NORTH AMERICAN LEPIDOPTERA. 



BY \VM. BARNES, M.D., AND J. MCDUNNOUGH, PH.D., DECATUR, ILL. 



In the November number, 1914, of " Insecutor Inscitiic 

 Menstruus," Dr. Dyar describes eight species of North American 

 Lepidoptera. As far as can be judged from a mere reading of the 

 descriptions, several of these species appear to have already received 

 names, but without an actual knowledge of the type specimens we 

 cannot state authoritatively that such is the case. We therefore 



" September, 1915 



