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A New Species of Euphanessa. 

 By Annie Trumuull ^losson. 



Euphanessa meridiana, ii. sp. 



I have been familiar for two or three years, in South Florida, with 

 the insect to which I give the above name. 1 thought, at first, that it 

 might be merely a southern variety of E. mendica, Walk , but am now 

 confident, afier careful study and comparison, that it is a different species. 

 It is uniformly smaller than mendica, none of my specimens exceeding 

 .9 inch in expanse. The anterior wings are longer and narrower pro- 

 portionately than in mendica, outer margin more oblique, and they are of 

 a dee[)er ochreous tint, sometmies almost orange. The two rows of 

 dusky, semi-transparent spots are quite difierent in appearance and ar- 

 rangement. The outer row is composed of very small separate spots, 

 which never coalesce ; it is a mere dotted line, very regular in its course, 

 w ith none of the blotchy unevenness of the same line in mendica. The 

 inner row has only three spots, a large one in discal cell, and two much 

 smaller, which are nearer the base and inner margin. Secondaries con- 

 colorous and immaculate. My description is comparative, rather than 

 scientific, but will, I think, serve to identify the insect for all who know 

 our common northern species. I have found this moth at Charlotte 

 Harbor, Tampa, and Winter Park, but no farther north. I know nothing 

 as vet of the larva. 



Note on Zeuzera pyrina. 

 By a. R. Grote. 



In reference to Mr. Graef's interesting article (Ento. Americana, 

 Vol. IV, p. 162) I would state that I did not include Zeuzera crsculi 

 (pyrina) in my list, because I believed its occurence to be quite 

 accidental. I believe cesculi and pyrina to be synonyms for the European 

 species. With regard to canadensis, I do not think, from Herrich- 

 Schiififer's figure, that it is a Zeuzera ; certainly it is not cescuH. I have 

 never seen the species. It is not yet certain that cesculi breeds in North 

 America. The sjiecimens observed may have been imported, as larvae 

 or pupae, in wood. If it were indigenous to North America it would 

 surely have been taken before this; the fact, that in Morris' Synopsis, 

 pyrina is credited to North America, is probably due to an original mis- 

 take in the habitat. I have alluded elsewhere to the chance finding of a 

 specimen o'i cbscuUxw Hoboken and I thought at the time, that it must 



