Pomona Colleoe Jornwi. m Kntomoi.ouv 513 



plant is Zainia iitlrgrifolia Willdi-iiow, a plant known liy flic nntivcs ns the "coon- 

 lie." It unfortunately sct-nis to he tli«- j^i'niTnl consensus of opinion among lepidop- 

 terists that once the life-history of a butterfly has been published there remain!) 

 nothing to be known of that species. Mi-re stereotypi-d egg, larval, pupal descrip- 

 tions do not, however, constitute the full biology. Tlie late lamented W. H. Ed- 

 wards created a wonderful change in our knowledge of Ilhopalocrra, but to the 

 present and future generations there still remains an ever increasing field of 

 observation. 



Thecla simaethis Driiry 

 This sj)ecies has api)arently been ri-eorded in our fauna from Texas only, but 

 I have recently seen a specimen in the collection of Mr. F. (irinnell, .Jr., from the 

 Chiracliua mountains of Ctx-hisc county. Arizona, collected there by Mr. Virgil 

 Owen. It was taken April 1 V. 1906. 



Papilio mylotcs 



This is given in our catalogues as inhabitating .'southrrn California, on the au- 

 thority of Reakirt. Strecker, Cat., p. ()8, IH78, in a note under mi/lulfi says: "Two 

 males, formerly in coll. Tyron Reakirt, were taken in Southern California and re- 

 ceived from Dr. Heerman in 1 8(52. " I can sec no reason for still retaining this 

 species in our faunal lists, for had it really occurred here it certainly would have 

 been again met with long before this. Moreover, Reakirt, as is well known, was 

 notoriously careless in his handling of data. In the Proc. Knt. Soc. Ph., Vol. V, 

 IS()/i, he records, p. 219, Crralinia lycaslr from I.os Angeles, California, and de- 

 scribes f(ir. negrela from the same locality. F\irlhcr, p. 2a.S, he publishes Mechan- 

 lis californica from I.os .Vngi'les. Xegreta is but an individual variant, and M. 

 californica is a local form of the protean M. poli/mnia I.innanis. None of these 

 have been taken within the limits of the United States, and until definite captures 

 arc reported they should not l>e given a place in our lists. 



P. mtflotes has a considerabh- synonymy, embracing /*. Caleli Reakirt, /'. tonila 

 Reakirt. P. alcamrdcs Felder, /'. arislomenrx Felder, and /'. eurimedes Boisduval. 



It i>ccurs in Mexico, Ciuatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica, and is a 

 close ally of P. iphidamas, and very probably but a local form of P. eurimedet 

 from Ciuiana. 



Euchloe sara Boisd. 



The Pierid genus Kurhloe, so far as my experience goes, is reniarkablv free 

 from aberrations, although it is notorious for the variation and dimorphism dis- 

 played. I have taken hundreds of /,'. aunonidrs and E. sara, and a few E. lanceo- 

 lala auslralis, but only once have I met with a true monstrosity. This sport of E. 

 sara, form reakirtii, I netted in Millard canyon, on the west slope of the San Ga- 

 briel mountains, on March 28 last. It is strikingly weird and, I believe, worthy 

 of notice. The primaries differ at once from normal examples in being more 

 elongate, the outer margin somewhat incurved, and the apex sharply cut. In the 

 cell is a large quadrate black bar, and from it runs the usual orange patch, but 

 the coloration is decidedly different from that of the normal example. Along the 

 outer margin, nearly to the inner margin, is a wide, jet black margin, rounding 



