THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. oil 



Papilio CrespHontes, for the first time, has been taken this summer 

 in the neighborhood of Pittsburgh, and in considerable numbers. One 

 collector obtained four specimens in one locality. The food-plant is 

 Zanthoxylum and Ptelea in these parts. In Florida its larva is abundant 

 upon the orange and lemon trees. 



One of the commonest of our Papilios is Philenor. Here its larva is 

 found upon Aristolochia. In southern Indiana, in Bartholomew county, 

 I have observed it summer after summer, sometimes in immense num- 

 bers. It is one of the commonest butterflies there, as here. But, with 

 the exception of one or two specimens of Aristolochia growing about 

 verandahs in the village of Hope, I think I may safely say there is not a 

 plant of Aristolochia within many miles of the fields in which I have 

 counted the perfect insects by the score. What is the other food plant 

 upon which the larva feeds ? It runs in my mind that I have read that 

 the caterpillar has been found upon the smart-weed (Polygonum hydro- 

 piper), but I cannot recall where I have seen this statement made. I 

 have never been able to verify it by observation. Perhaps some reader 

 of the Canadian Entomologist may be -able to throw light upon the 

 subject. 



The banana merchants in our town have proved themselves possessed 

 of curious entomological stores. I have received from them a couple of 

 living tarantulas, and not long ago a living specimen of Caligo Teucer, 

 which had emerged from a chrysalis hidden in a bunch of bananas. The 

 insect had been transported by sea and land from either Honduras or 

 some port in the northern portion of South America, a journey of several 

 thousand miles. This reminds me that in several consignments of eastern 

 Lepidoptera I have found our Danais plexippus, Linn. One of the 

 sendings was from Borneo, the other from Java. We shall soon hear of 

 its domestication on the mainland of Asia, and it will probably spread all 

 over China and Japan. The insects taken by the U. S. Eclipse Expedi- 

 tion of 1889, at the Azores, numbered among them two specimens of 

 this butterfly. There were only about a dozen specimens of insects 

 taken at the Azores by the industrious ? naturalists of the party, and I 

 judge that it must be common there. Why we have not yet heard of its 

 domiciliation on the African continent is a mystery to me. It will no 

 doubt get there before long. 



I have a specimen of Limenitis taken in Warren county, Pa., this 

 summer, which is most remarkable. It has all the markings of L. ursula, 



