168 Journal New York Entomological Society. ^^'°^- xxix. 



namely, the presence of a narrow, tapering, chitinous process extending far up 

 into the ventral membrane at the base of the claspers. 



$. Unknown. 



Type : J". Southern California. 



The unique type is the fifth specimen (as numbered) of the series 

 associated together by Dr. Le Conte under the name mixta. As in 

 the case of the preceding type it remains in that collection. 



MISCELLANEOUS NOTES AND RECORDS OF LO- 

 CAL LEPIDOPTERA, AND DESCRIPTION OF 

 TWO NEW ABERRATIONS. 



By Frank E. Watson, 

 New York, N. Y. 



Butterfly Collecting in the Vicinity of New York for the 



Season of 1920. 



The exceedingly poor butterfly collecting in the vicinity of New 

 York City this past season may perhaps be laid to the abnormal 

 weather conditions, particularly to the greatly reduced amount of 

 spring-like weather through March, April and May. Following a 

 long cold winter, March was warm and springlike from the middle 

 to the end of the month. It also had a remarkable number of clear 

 days for that month in this vicinity. April gave us just five nice 

 warm spring-like days. May was better with nineteen warm days, 

 and being steadily warm after the 14th. The weather, during Jime, 

 was normal. July and August were exceedingly hot, humid and 

 rainy. When not actually raining it was damp and cloudy with rain 

 threatening, so that there were few sunny days during these two 

 months. 



Cornus mass, a European Dogwood, produced its first flowers 

 on April i in Colonial Park, New York City. The same shrubs 

 last year -flowered for the first time on March 18, i.e., two weeks 

 earlier. With the butterflies, at any rate, the season has apparently 

 been about two weeks late, not becoming normal until about August i. 



In Van Cortlandt Park, New York City, commencing with Au- 



