120 NOTES, NEW SPECIES, ETC. 



Adelpha conlaiiiinf,' seven species of the insects more familiarly known as, and now embraced in Boisilnval's penus Heterochroa 



But, after all, there is tliis one most ini|iortant (litierence between Ilnbner and his present "imitators, that though his writings 

 ' fanciful he gave most accurate and reliable tigiires of his species, which thev do not. 



It is nnfortimale, most unfortunate, that owint; to the existence of the mutual admiration societv which embraces so manv of the 

 American Lepidopicrists, there has been but little protest against the phantasms of the authors alluded to; there is no fear that the 

 scientists of Kurope will at iheir diction adopt such Laputian nomenclature, but there arc here manv beginners and less jidvanced 

 students who have, mdiappily, partly adopted the style of nomenclature of tliese fhams of Lcpidopterologv, as their catalogues lists 

 etc., are published in cheap jieriodicals, easily obtainable, whilst the solid, real work of the older as well .%s tile present standard ai'ilhor.s 

 oil entomological science are not so easily accessible, which is the more to be regretted, as though Scudder and Grote are actuated by 

 widely ilitterent nKJtives in their writings, still both produce the same pernicious results ; Scudder's lists, theories, etc., seem to be gotten 

 up to show what amount of time and labor one human being is capable of completely wasting; whilst, were it not for his overweening 

 eg(itism, it might p(jssibly occur to Mr. Grote that there was some other object in publishing catalogues, etc., than that of the endless 

 repetition of the name of the compiler. 



NOTES, NEW SPECIES, ETC. 



.Samia Ckaxothi is the correct name of the Salumia tig. 2, Plate XII. It was fullv described bv Dr. Herman Behr in Proceed- 

 ings California Aca.l. Nat. 8c., Vol. I, p. 47, April, 30, IS.5.5; the author at the same time "presented the'Academv with a drawing of the 

 insect, as well as a specimen of the cocoon, remarking that it was found on Ceanolhus Ihyrsijlorus, also on a Bhamnvsand a Photinua and 

 that It was likely to prove valuable. Again, on pages 6S-69 ( 1. c. I, Aug. 27, ISoo, in recording donations to the Cabinet of the Academy 

 IS the lollownig: "troin Dr. Behr, a specimen of the Cal. Silk Worm {Salumia Ceanothi, Behr)." ' ' 



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Ten years later Grote, entirely ignoring the above description, redescribed the species as Platysamia Cali/ornica in a foot-n. 

 er on "Bombycida' of Cuba" in Proc. Ent. Soc, Phila., Vol. V, p. 229, Dec, 186.5. At the conclusion of his description h. 



a paper on aombycK he ot I uha m Proc. hnt. boc, Phila., \ ol. V, p. 229, Dec, 186.5. At the conclusion of his description he adds 

 'It IS not impossible that this species may be 'Saturnia Euryale,' Boisd. ; if so, this latter name cannot obtain, since it has not .as far 

 I am avyare, been sanctioneil by any description." ' ' 



Sancta simplicilas .' 



Lycjena Catai.ina. Dr. Behr informs me that his Lijama Lonjuini is identical with tliis species- its citations are thus- 

 Lyc.f.na Catalina, Keakirt, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sc, Phila., p. 244 il8«(j). 



Lyctena Lorijuini, Behr, Proc. Cal. Acad. Nat. Sc, Vol. III. p. 280 (1867). 



Lycirna Rhiiu, Boisduva!, Lep. Cal., p. 51 (1869). 



Lyama Daunia, W. II. Edwards, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc, Vol. Ill, p. 272 (1871). 



Lyc^na Rapahoe, Reakirt. I have compared the types of this species with a large number of examples of Luc. Icarioides and 

 can come to no other conclusion than that they are the same. Dr. Behr writes me that Ly. Jtapahoe as ligured in this work is identical 

 with L. iMdalus, in which event the noiiienclatnre of the species would be 

 Lyc.kn-a Ii-ARlolDEs, Boisduva!, ,\mi. Soc. Ent. Fr., p. 297 (18.52). 



Lycrna Bapahoe, Jteakirl, Proc. Ent. Soc, Phila., Vol. VI, p. 146 (1866). 



Lycirna Divdalvs, Behr, Proc. Cal. Acad. Nat. .Sc, Vsl. Ill, p. 280 (1867). 



Lyc.ena Pheres, Bdl., and L. Eviu.s, Bdl. Dr. Behr suggests mavbe local varieties of the same species, as he has intermediate 

 e.xaiuples ; in my own cabinet are also a number of the latter, showing various gi-adations from one form to the other, and I have no doubt 

 but Dr. Belli- s surmise is ccjrrect. 



Lyc.ena Gptilete Knoch. (Papilio O.) Beit. Ins. Ges., 1, p. 76, t. 5 (1781).— This species may be added to the \ \m 

 tauna, as througli the kindness ot mine honored friend.'Dr. Behr, I have received several e.xamples that were taken in \laski - they 

 |u-esem no diHerence whatever from the European examples ; it is a species having a wide range, being found in CJermany, Russia and 



Sphinx Si-kohi, l!dl., which has been accredited to California, I have received from South Africa. Il belongs to the simp 

 group as 6'. CoHi/eraruiH, /'inas// 1, etc. *' ' 



Through the kindness of Prof. C. V. Riley I have examined the plates of Sphingidse recently published bv Dr. Boisduva! two 

 new ones troui N. .\merica are figured in both imago and larva; under the names o< Sphinx Cntalpa', Bdl., and S. 'Cupressi Bdl the hit- 

 ter Irom Georgia evidently belonging to the PinuMri group. Prof Rilev has had the larva> of & Catalmr, but has not .so 'far l believe 

 been successful in rearing it. i • , •=, 



Mei.ix.ea Dora, N. S. 



Expands 8| inches. Head lilack, a yellow dorsal line and yellow points at the eves ; anlenme yellow, except a short space 

 towards the head wliere they are black ; body above brown, below yellow ; on thorax a yellow central dorsal line Inner half of pri- 

 maries iM-owuisli reil ; a yellow, somewhat irregular bar extending from below middle of exterior margin diagonally to middle of costa 

 exterior to this baiul the wing is black ; in the discoidal cell is an irregular black mark, and another at end of tlie cell joins the vellow 

 land, this latter IS also joined inwardly by another irregular black mark 1-e.iching from the middle to the exterior niiirgin of'win.'- 

 between this mark and the one in the discoidal cell is a black spot ; a black dash at base of wing ; on costa a black streak and another 

 longer, broader one at inner margin, extending Irom base to half the length of the wing. Secondaries brownish red from middle of ex- 

 terior margin to apex very narrowly margined with black, widest .at veins ; beneath as above, but the black marks of primaries 

 smaller J base oi secondaries yellow, accompanied with a short black streak ; a small black spot in di.scoidal cell I received this ex- 

 ample from Mr. Reakirt, whose MSS. name I have retained for it; its locality was Esmeraldus. Allied closely to the lately de- 

 scrilieil .)/. KMei, Stauding,-r, but diflers from it in the absence of all spots on the black apical part of primaries, in "the absence of the 

 yellow spot at inner angle, in the absence of the bro.ad black margin of outer half of interior margin ami in the presence of the black 

 dash on innerhalf of same; and on reverse of secondaries, in the position of the black spot, which is within the discoidal cell in ours 

 and outside of it in Slaiidinger's species ; the hatter is from Central Am. To its author I am indebted for ray e-xamples ' 



It ha^een accurately figured bv Mr. Gustav Wevraer in the Stett. Entom. Zeit. (187.5). Taf II fig '4 



