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sides, or broken up into a series of oval black spots, one to each seg- 

 ment ; a row of black spots at the sides. 



Under side of body : Thorax blackish, a little dark flesh color in the 

 middle; abdomen yellowish flesh color, a row of black spots each side 

 of the middle. 



Upper surface : Primaries black, marked as follows : with the same 

 shade of flesh color as on the head and thorax ; all the veins, the costa 

 and hind or inner margin, a line running from the base of the wing to the 

 end of the third median veinule, that may be called the sub-discal line, 

 and three transverse lines that extend from the costa to this sub-discal 

 line. The first or inner of these transverse lines is nearly in the middle 

 of the wing, the second crossing the wing obliquely at the end of the 

 discal cell ; these two straight ; the third pursues a zigzag course, starting 

 on the costa between the second and apex, extends to near the base of 

 fringe between the second and third disco-cellular veinules, makes an 

 acute angle and joins the second transverse at the juncture of the first and 

 second median veinules with the median vein ; from this it extends to the 

 end of the sub-discal line. Secondaries bright scarlet with a narrow outer 

 and costal border of black, and a discal spot and three large spots of the 

 same near the outer border. Of these the middle of the three spots is 

 free, but the discal and the first and third of the outer are usually blended 

 with the border. 



Under side : Both primaries and secondaries marked as above, but the 

 light on the primaries is more tinged with scarlet, while the scarlet of the 

 secondaries is not so bright. 



Described from two males and two females. These were taken in 

 connection with Arctia Nais Dru., and like that, seems to be double 

 brooded. The first, a female, was taken May 27th of the past season ; 

 the rest, one male Sept. 15th, and one male and one female Sept. 25th. I 

 have also seen one specimen captured by another person. 



NOTES FROM WOLLASTON, MASS. 



BY F. H. SPRAGUE. 



During the season of 1878 I have found at this place, situated within 

 two miles of the limits of Boston, some species of butterflies which are 

 seldom found in this vicinity. On the 8th of October I obtained a nice 



