Sept., T9II.1 Short Notes. 1*)*J 



Pamphila phylseus Drury. — A demonstration of the manner in 

 which some animals elude observation was given on October 5, 1910, 

 by Mr. Abbott Thayer in Dr. Southwick's pleasing little garden in 

 Central Park, N. Y. City. While the birds and dried butterflies were 

 being placed among the foliage and the flowers, many living insects 

 were also observed, and among them PamphUa phylcrtis. It at first 

 eluded capture, and was gone for nearly two hours, but later returned 

 to the same clump of flowers. The southern species was taken at 

 Lake Hopatcong, N. J., on August 29, 1908, but it is quite uncom- 

 mon about New York City. — Wm. T. Davis. 



Arrival of Danais plexippus in the Spring. — In the last edition of 

 "' The Insects of New Jersey " it is stated that only the females of 

 Danais plexippus return to their place of birth in the spring fol- 

 lowing the fall southward migration of the species. From observa- 

 tions made on Staten Island and in the vicinity of New York City 

 it appears that the females are the first to arrive in the spring. Indi- 

 viduals have been seen as early as April 25 at Lakehurst, N. J-, and 

 in the latter part of April at Jamesburg. Males, however, are also 

 to be found in the spring migration. One was collected on the 

 southern end of Staten Island on May 17, 1908. As no hibernating 

 individuals have been found so far north, the male no doubt flew 

 north with the other migrants. — Wm. T. Davis. 



Cicindela purpurea limbalis in the Vicinity of New York City. — 



In the Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society for August, 

 1878, Mr. F. G. Schaupp records the taking of a single specimen of 

 Cicindela limbalis King, by Mr. H. Koestlin near Fort Lee, N. J. in 

 the month of May. In the local collection of the American Museum 

 there is a limbalis collected by Mr. H. S. Harbeck at South Orange, 

 N. J., Sept. I, 1888, and another in my collection was collected at 

 Ramapo, N. Y., on April 11. Mr. Chas. E. Sleight found a limbalis 

 at Bear Swamp, Ramapo Mts., September 6. 1909, and Major Wirt 

 Robinson has collected it near West Point. On the opposite side of 

 the Hudson, and nearer New York City, is the locality at Peekskill 

 where Mr. John D. Sherman, Jr., collected a number, several of 

 which are now in the collection of Mr. Edward D. Harris. Recently 

 Mr. Frank E. Watson gave me a large individual found by him on 

 the Ramapo Mts. near Southfields, N. Y., October 12, 1910, at an 



