28 Journal New York Entomological Society. [Voi, ix. 



Purpurea var. liiubalis KUig, was the common species. It occurred 

 on sunny roads, often in considerable numbers. A field near Bass 

 Harbor, on both sides of the road, sparsely covered with grass, was 

 over-run with them. The markings were quite constant and close to 

 type, but the color varied considerably, with decided inclination to- 

 wards the duller green tones ; specimens of the brilliant reddish hue, 

 so common in the West, were absent. Purpurea itself was not seen. 



The repanda variety was interesting. It was quite sparsely dis- 

 tributed over the open roads, occurring generally with limhalis. In 

 one single locality, a bit of hard, bare ground at the edge of a small 

 pond in the woods, it was taken repeatedly, and in some abundance. 

 In size,- color and markings it resembles the var. duodeciins:;uttata, ex- 

 cept that the middle band is somewhat more plainly marked. Save 

 for its slightly larger size and darker tone of color it is hardly distin- 

 guishable from specimens taken by the writer on similar ground at 

 Mt. Savage in western Maryland, in June, or from specimens in his 

 cabinet from California, designated '■'■ oregona.'" Some fifty individ- 

 uals of the variety in question were secured at Mt. Desert, and in all 

 the same characteristics prevailed. Repanda, for some unaccountable 

 reason, was not encountered, except in one single instance. 



Vulgaris was very abundant in a single sandy spot in the woods. 

 Many of the specimens were noticeable for the attenuated and pro- 

 longed humeral lunule, approaching var. obliquata. 



Special search was made in the hope of taking sexguttata, ancocis- 

 conensis and hentzii. The summits of several high hills, and that of 

 Pemetic Mt., where large exposed surfaces of granitic rock are fre- 

 quent, were searched for the two last, but fruitlessly. The genus, so 

 far as observed, seemed altogether absent from the higher localities, as 

 well as from the sea coast. Shady wood paths, where sexguttata and 

 its varieties love to dwell, yielded nothing though carefully searched. 

 Even ubiquitous ///«<^/'«/«^'^^ was altogether absent. 



