20 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Pygarctia abdominalis. 



This species described by me many years ago, from a specimen taken 

 by me in Alabama, is, I now believe, wrongly placed. The type has been 

 broken ; only a pair of wings remain. I believe it to be a Euchaeies, not 

 since taken. The fore wings are of the same dark color as egle and 

 Spragtcei, but there is a distinct dark yellow costal vitta. The species 

 will easily be recognised from the description, with its reference to 

 Euchaeies. The median vein of secondaries is 4-branched, 3, 4, 5 being 

 thrown off near together from the extremity of the vein. The type was a 

 female, as may yet be verified by the divided frenulum. 



Capis curvata, n g. et sp. 



A Deltoid form with the outline of Lisyrhype?ia, but the wings broader 

 and shorter. Antennae simple. Ocelli. Labial palpi moderately pro- 

 jected, third article short, a little depending. Fore wings broad, glistening 

 deep brown, with a curved even s. t. line, outside of which the exterior 

 margin is washed with white. Hind wings concolorous fuscous. Beneath 

 paler fuscous, without markings. This species I have seen in Prof. 

 Lintner's collection. One specimen in my own expands 20 mil. New 

 York. 



SOME PECULIARITIES OF ARGYNNIS IDALIA. 



The males are very plentiful throughout the summer, flying about feed- 

 ing on the flowers of the clover and milk-weed ; but the females are 

 exceedingly rare, and I never saw one feeding but once. I collected a 

 whole summer and did not succeed in finding one. I never have seen the 

 female on the wing, unless I had scared it from its hiding place. Of 

 course the females must feed, but I cannot imagine when they do so. In 

 trying to discover where the females were, I found that they remained hid- 

 den in the long grass of the fields near the ground, and they would not 

 take wing unless you nearly stepped on them, when they would get up as 

 quickly as a partridge. Their flight is exceedingly rapid and generally in 

 a straight line for about 100 ft., and then they do not alight on a flower or 

 bush or flutter about like the male, but suddenly drop like lead in the long 

 grass. It would be almost impossible to tell the- exact spot where they 

 alight, as they drop so suddenly, but on approach near it they are off like 

 a shot again. I was thus able to distinguish the males from the females 

 by the peculiarities in their flight alone. 



Harry Skinner, Philadelphia, Penn. 



