364 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vol.45. 



Euphydras) pTiseton, ab a, superia, and also by Hulst/ which was taken 

 on Long Island, New York, in 1875. On June 21 I wrote to Mr. 

 Samuel Scudder in regard to my capture, and, under date of June 24, 

 he replied: ''The suffused specimen of phaeton which you describe is 

 different from those heretofore known, and it would be worth your 

 while to describe it. These aberrations are always interesting, and 

 when they are accumulated in sufficient numbers will serve as a basis 

 for some general statement which can hardly be made now. Your 

 specimen ought finally to rest in some public museum." 



Mr. W. F. Fiske^ has also described a very similar specimen which 

 he captured in Webster, New Hampshire, on June 12, 1895, in a bog 

 where the species had never previously been observed and where 

 diligent search failed to discover more. 



The specimen is a female, and much larger than the average for the 

 species, measuring 64 mm. in expanse. The wings are more rounded 

 than in typical examples, the outer margins of the primaries being 

 convex and not straight or slightly concave in the posterior two- 

 thirds as m the typical form. 



The upper surface is not greatly different from that of the typical 

 form, though the yellow spots are much enlarged and more or less 

 confluent. 



On the lower surface the yeUow spots are enormously enlarged and 

 confluent, forming a broad yellow (of a lighter tint than usual) band 

 of uniform width, extending inward from the red border, from which 

 it is separated by the usual black lunules, to the middle of the wings. 

 This yeUow band is crossed by black veins, which are narrowly bor- 

 dered by black and grayish scales. In the middle and parallel to 

 the borders there is a faint indicated grayish narrow stripe. The 

 usual yellow spots on the inner half of the secondaries are absent, 

 and the red spots are much enlarged; they are separated from the 

 broad yeUow band by a narrow but distinct black line. 



FENISECA TARQUINIUS (Fabricius). 



This insect is rare in eastern Massachusetts and, though I collected 

 constantly in that region for a number of years, I was never able to 

 capture a specimen. Long after my attention had been diverted 

 from entomology into other fields of zoological activity, I noticed, 

 on July 25, 1910, a single specimen flying low over the lawn of the 

 house at the southwest corner of the intersection of LoweU and 

 Highland Avenues, NewtonviHe. Seizing the hat from the head of a 

 child which was playing near by, I succeeded, with this substitute 

 for a net, in capturing it. 



1 Bulletin Brooklyn Entomological Society, vol. 3, p. 77, pi. 1. 



2 Entomological News, vol. 7, March 1896, p. 87. 



