292 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



A FEW REMARKABLE VARIATIONS IN LEPIDOPTERA. 



BY GEORGE A. EHRMANN, PITTSBURGH, PENn'a. 



Fapilio turnus, ?, Linn.— I received a curious example of a $ P. 

 turntis, which has the outer margin greatly produced towards the apex 

 of the primaries ; the secondaries are more rounded and not so elongate 

 as in the typical form ; and the black discal bars are broader and more 

 suffused. The expanse is only 3^ inches, thus giving the insect a very 

 odd appearance. My specimen was taken in Westmoreland County, Pa. 

 Dr. Holland has an example, taken in Coalburgh, W. Va., that agrees in 

 every respect with mine. 



F. turjiiis, dim, form Glauciis, Linn. — This singular specimen is of 

 the turjitis-glaucus form, but the right-hand primary is almost as light 

 and boldly marked as the typical turnus. I have also an example that 

 is as dark as the darkest forms of glaiuus and has no trace of yellow in 

 it except on the underside of the right-hand primary, where there are 

 many large, light, yellow blotches, that seem to have been put there arti- 

 ficially. There is another in my collection that has little or no trace of 

 yellow on the forewings, but the discal band of secondaries is nearly as 

 boldly marked with yellow as in turnus. 



P. asterias, Fabr. — Out of a batch of about forty larvae that I 

 succeeded in rearing, and carried through the winter of 1892-3, I 

 obtained five fine examples, four males and one female, that have no 

 pupil-spot in the ocellus. There were no two larvae in this batch that 

 were alike, even at the same stage of existence. 



Leucarctia acrcea, Drury. — ^ . Same as the typical form, except that 

 the black spots on the right-hand primary, between the median nervures, 

 have blended into one another, thus forming three black bars. This 

 curious example was caught flying around the electric lights of our city, 

 in the latter part of June, 1893. The black bars are half-an-inch long, 

 and give the moth a very singular appearance. 



Leucarctia acrcea, Drury, var. Klagesii, Ehrmann. — $ . Upper sur- 

 face of primaries has no black spots whatever, except three small ones on 

 the median portion of the costa, and six exceedingly minute black points 

 on the outer margin. On the secondaries there is a faint black discal 

 spot, and two on the outer margin, one near the apex and one near the 

 inner angle. All these spots are almost obsolete, thus making this an in- 

 teresting form, and giving it the beauty of having clear white primaries, 



