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joints exteriorly pale rufous. Abdomen black, smooth and shining, 

 the posterior margin of the third segment above, broader laterally, the 

 whole of the fourth and the extreme sides of the fifth segment densely 

 clothed with yellowish pubescence, the remaining segments rather 

 sparsely clothed with black pubescence ; apical segment smooth and 

 shining, without pubescence ; in one specimen the basal segment above 

 has a mixture of fuscous pubescence ; beneath black. Length 8 — 9 

 lines. 



ffab. — New York (Ashton); Maine (Packard); Canada (Saunders). 

 Coll. Ent. Soe. Philadelphia. 



Allied to A. insularis Smith. Mr. Packard informs me that there 

 is a specimen of this species in the Harrisian Collecticm taken in Mas- 

 sachusetts I have dedicated this fine species to my friend Mr. T. B. 

 Ashton. of Washington Co., New York, who was the first to commu- 

 nicate it til me. I have not seen the % . 



STATED MEETING, M a y 9 . 

 President Bland in the Chair. 



The Secretary read a letter from Mr. John Kirkpatriek of Cleveland. 



Ohio, transmitting to the Society pupae of Eudryas uiiio in stems of 



Hibiscus militarise which is abundant in wet swamps. Mr. K. says : — 



■' The first time I found the pupse was last spring (1863) in pieces of stem 

 washed ashore. Last winter I visited the localitj' on the ice and found nearly 

 all the dead stems of the above jJlant burrowed by the larvre, and containing 

 pupse. In the burrows of the Eudryas, a friend of mine found a few pupae of a 

 dipterous insect and much resembling the pupae of the Tachinas that destroys 

 the army worm. For many days last fall, there was a constant stream of but- 

 terflies passing over this city : occasionally hundreds would be seen at once, at 

 other times only a few. They were all of one species — Danais archippus. Its 

 food-plant is abundant here. The larva of Sesia diffinis feeds on the leaves of 

 the Snowberry (8ymphoricarpus racemosus) and also on those of the upright 

 Honeysuckle {Lonicera tartarica) in gardens. Neither Dr. Harris or Dr. Clem- 

 ens observed this. Three or four years ago I caught a specimen of Argynnis 

 colvAnhina on the Cuyahoga flats, and within half a mile of this city. I have 

 compared it with specimens from Florida, in the Cabinet of Prof. J. P. Kirt- 

 land. and it in no wise diflTers from them. This is the only time, to my know- 

 ledge, it has been seen so far north. Papilio cre.iphonten- was occasionally found 

 here, but iiot since the cold winter of 1856-7.'' 



