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females have the band undefined, cloudy. I see that occasionally in a 

 dark Semidea, white spots are present in similar position on the under 

 hind wing to that of this last-mentioned female Subhyalina. 



FIELD NOTES FROM TEXAS AND LOUISIANA. 



BY H. F. WICKHAM, IOWA CITY, IOWA. 



In the summer of 1892 I spent a month on the line of the Southern 

 Pacific R. R., between Morgan City, Louisiana, and San Antonio, Texas. 

 While the collecting was by no means of the best, a few notes may in- 

 terest the readers of the Canadian Entomologist and give some idea of 

 insect life in the Southern States during the hot months. 



Morgan City lies to the west of New Orleans on the Atchafalaya 

 River, in a country so flat that, as the natives say, " Water will only run 

 as far as you dig a ditch for it." The neighbourhood is covered in great 

 part by heavy woods, with a rank underbrush of poison oak, trumpet 

 creeper and palmetto, the ground beneath all being, at the time of my 

 visit, soaked with rains and dotted with innumerable pools of water in 

 which mosquitoes were freely breeding. Along the edge of the woods I 

 had to do the most of the collecting, as I found it quite an impossibility 

 to brave the attacks of the mosquitoes and Tabanida; in the depth of the 

 forest. • 



The palmetto proved to be the plant best worth hunting over, and 

 when I arrived on the twenty-second of June it was in bloom, or just 

 going out in some cases. Where the flowers were fresh and sweet there 

 were numbers of Euphoria sepulchral is and Trichius delta, the latter the 

 less numerous and very hard to capture in the bright sunshine, though 

 when cloudy weather prevailed they were much more sluggish. Chaulio- 

 gnathus marginatns occurred on the flowers in numbers, but it was not 

 considered worth while to take many of them, as it appears to be com- 

 mon from Pennsylvania south, though I never take it in Iowa. Paria 

 canella occurred once in a while, and a single specimen of Phyton palli- 

 dum was also shaken into my umbrella. When the flowers had fallen off, 

 disclosing the newly-formed fruit, I found a very nice Curculionid beetle, 

 Pachybaris porosus, which was known previously from Florida. It 

 seemed not to occur on the plants except where the flowers had com- 

 menced to drop off, and quite likely oviposits on the newly-formed fruit. 

 Wherever an open patch allowed a chance for growth of wild sunflowers, 

 there were a good many beetles of other kinds — Mecas ifiomata, Systeua, 



