90 Journal New York Entomological Society. [Voi. xxiv, 



indeed Dr. J. B. Smith would never admit it and buffalocnsis were 

 one and the same species. So it seems wisest to call attention to 

 the facts at this time and to designate the departure with a varietal 

 name. 



Xanthcecia buffaloensis simplicissima new variety. 



The tubercle on the clypeus and the general color same as type 

 form. 



The median area of primaries warm brown with reddish irrora- 

 tions, the basal and terminal areas washed with purplish ; the ante- 

 and postmedial lines are the most prominent marking, double, the 

 inner brown, the outer purplish black as bounding the median field; 

 the median shade line is vague, the subterminal very dentate and 

 sprinkled with a scattering row of reddish golden atoms; the round 

 orbicular and the kidney-shaped reniform but indistinctly outlined in 

 a shade of the darker ground; claviform wanting. Secondaries much 

 paler, of the lighter purple brown and now almost a shade of fawn. 

 Expanse 33-37 mm. 



Type locality, Wilmington, Del., F. M. Jones collector; four speci- 

 mens Aug. 21 to Sept. 30, 1915. A paratype is with Mr. Jones, a 

 male type with the author. 



The genitalia are very distinct from the general type in Papai- 

 pema and possess good individual characteristics, agreeing of course 

 with the type form whose difference only rests in the white spots of 

 the primaries. It has been suggested that Strecker's term " latia " 

 be retained for this unspotted form, but such procedure would con- 

 flict with the rules, since his type is, and the description personifies 

 that form in which the stigmata are white marked, that which had 

 already been characterized by Grote. 



MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 



A Migratory Flight of Dragonflies. — On the afternoon of October 

 13, 1915, a rather compact swarm of dragonflies was observed in 

 migration at New London, Conn. The swarm came from the north 

 into the Connecticut College grounds and went on southward toward 

 the city. They passed along a hillside overlooking the Thames River 

 and nearly a half mile from the river. 



