120 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



NOTE ON PAPILIO POLYDAMAS, LINN. 



In the Revised Synopsis of Species, commenced in Part lo, Vol. 2, 

 But. N. A., I struck out Polydamas, Villiersii and Serion, for want of 

 authentication. I beheve these species have been credited to our fauna 

 on authority of Dr. Boisduval, but if examples of either have been taken 

 within the U. S. during the last twenty-five years, and up to the printing 

 of my Revision, I am not aware of it. However, within the last two 

 months. Dr. Wittfeld, of Indian River, Florida, has taken half a dozen 

 Polydamas, one of which he sent me for identification. Although 

 collecting butterflies assiduously for two years past, Dr. Wittfeld had not 

 observed this species before. The larva, according to Boisduval, feeds 

 on Aristolochia. Serion, Fabr., is a Jamaican species, and is not likely to 

 have been seen in Florida. Zojiaj-ia, Butler, = Serion, Cramer, is Cuban, 

 and may be also Floridian, but until properly authenticated, I should 

 reject it. 



NOTE ON CHIONOBAS TARPEIA, ESPER. 



I have recently received from Dr. Staudinger six Siberian examples of 

 this species, showing variation, and am satisfied that I myself have seen 

 nothing American which cnn be called Tarpeia. It resembles on upper 

 side C. Uhleri, but differs widely on under side. Mr. Butler, in Cat. 

 Satyr., credits Tarpeia to Arctic America, and of course his authority 

 decides that question, as he had the British Museum example before him. 



W. H. Edwards. 



A NEW VARIETY OF CATOCAL^. 



Catocala Paleogavia Guen. 



N. Var. Aiinida. — The whole of rhe posterior margin, nearly to the 

 middle, of the primaries brownish black. The terminal space brownish 

 gray with a light shade across the middle. The white marking along the 

 /. p. and /. a. and subterminal lines very prominent. 



In the more common form the whole wing is pale brownish gray, 

 except the reniform and subterminal space, from which this var. may 

 readily be distinguished. 



This var. is to Paleogajna what var. Evelina is to Lachrymosa. 



I have made my description from three male specimens. 



D. B. Fager, Carbondale, Illinois. 



