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Fig. 9. Mandible of larva. 



Fig. 10. Egg mass. 



Fig. 11. Diagram of alimentary canal of larva fi\<- weeks old ; fini, fore 

 intestine; mint, mid intestine, hint, hind intestine; mt, malphighian tubule; 

 sc], spinning gland ; sf, silk press. 



Fig. 12. Diagram of alimental canal of larva four months old, spinning 

 glands removed. 



FALL NOTES ON SOME ALABAMA BUTTERFLIES. 



By Lewis B. Woodruff, 

 New York, N. Y. 



It so happens that comparatively little has found its way on 

 record concerning the butterflies to be found in that part of our 

 country comprised within the boundaries of the state of Alabama. 

 In the belief that the little I am able to offer toward supplying this 

 lack may prove of interest, the following notes are submitted re- 

 specting those species met with during a short visit to the south- 

 central part of that state in the late fall of 19 18. 



The exact locality was a plantation home in the midst of wide 

 acres under cultivation in the so-called black-belt, four or five miles 

 beyond the settlement of Hazen which lies about seventy miles south- 

 west of Montgomery. Here I spent the last ten days of October 

 and the first week in November, housed by almost continuous rains 

 accompanied by chill winds. But occasionally there would be sun- 

 shine for an hour or so, rarely all day; and although the season of 

 flowers was past, the few wild asters along the fences being soon 

 stripped of their blooms by the storms, butterflies of certain species 

 abounded, fluttering over the grass everywhere. Perhaps the most 

 abundant was Eurymus eurytheme Bdv., form amphidusa Bdv., show- 

 ing a wide range in the proportionate extent of the orange and 

 yellow suffusion, with here and there a female of the white form 

 corresponding to the white female of E. philodice Godt. of our 

 northern meadows. The latter species was also present, although 

 in comparative scarcity. A close rival in abundance to E. eurytheme, 

 and hovering over the grass in close association with it, was Eurema 

 euterpe Men., familiar to us in the neighborhood of this city. This 

 genus was represented by four species, all oi them door-yard fliers, 



