228 Journal New York Entomological Society, t^oi- xxviii, 



Papilio cresphontes Cramer. 



One larva, about ready to pupate, found on gas-plant or burning- 

 bush, Dictamnus alhus Linne, in a garden at Waterbury, Ct., was re- 

 ceived at the Museum, together with a specimen of the food-plant, 

 for determination. Coll. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 



This garden-plant is a variable species of the Rue family (Ruta- 

 ceae) and occurs from southern Europe to northern China. It has a 

 strong odor of lemon and will give off a flash of light on sultry 

 summer evenings when a lighted match is held under the flower- 

 cluster near the main stem.^ 



The above plant seems to be fairly well known as a food plant of 

 cresphontes. 



Pieris protodice f. vein, vernalis Edwards. 



One specimen captured at Lakewood, Ocean Co., N. J., on April 

 26, 1906. Coll. F. E. W. 



Pieris rapae (Linne). "^ 



One pupa found during the latter part of August, 1908, attached 

 to the underside of a leaflet of Cassia marylandica. I raised this 

 plant from seed in a large flower-pot on my roof and it was the only 

 plant there. The leaves were well chewed near the pupa, and there 

 were no other larvae to be found, so that the rapcv caterpillar must 

 have fed on the Cassia, a female in flying over the roof having de- 

 posited an egg on it. A normal female subsequently emerged. This 

 is rather a strange food for rapce. Locality, Morrisania, New York 

 City. Coll. F. E. W. 



Eurymus philodice (Godart). 



One nearly full-grown larva was found by W. A. Friedle on a 

 young plant of Robinia pseudacacia at Washington Heights, New 

 York City, September 14, 1916. It continued to feed on this plant 

 until fully grown, making a crippled pupa from which the adult 

 failed to emerge. 



Danaus archippus (Fabricius). 



About 5 P. M. on July 14, 1907, while returning from a collect- 

 ing trip to Lakehurst,^ I found near South Lakewood,^ four nearly 



2 Botanical notes by J. B. Keller in L. H. Bailey's Standard Cyclopedia of 

 Horticulture, Vol. II, 1914, p. 1004. 



3 Both towns are in Ocean County, N, J. 



