THE LEPIDOPTERIST 



party, a fairly sizable piece of brown paper stuck to 

 the sugar I had placed on one of the trees the previous 

 night. Advancing to pull it off in order to renew the 

 bait I was startled by having the paper take flight and 

 whiz by my ear. A few nights later I caught, on a 

 tree about two hundred yards distant, a rather bat- 

 tered specimen of Erebus odora. The following sea- 

 son I secured another and much better specimen on 

 the same tree. 



Among my early moth-hunting trips as a boy, I re- 

 member one in which I found a pair of moths, Geo- 

 metrids, I think, copulating in such a position as to 

 resemble very closely the form of a drying birch leaf. 

 A similar instance of protective resemblance in this 

 necessarily quiet position, — a condition not due to a 

 single moth but to the combined appearance of the 

 pair — is one which I recently came across at Province- 

 town and of which I was fortunate enough, with the 

 aid of a long-bellows camera, to secure enlarged pho- 

 tos in two positions. The moths in question were 

 Harpyia borealis Boisduval. Resting on a small stick 

 they so closely resembled a mere patch of bird ex- 

 crement that I twice passed them by before deciding 

 to return and investigate. 



Protective devices of this nature are very common 

 in the case of a single moth or butterfly ; but instances 

 where the protection depended on the relative position 

 of two individuals have, I believe, been rarely noted. 



A New Apantcsis 



By Samuel E. Cassino, Salem, Mass. 

 Plate I. 



ApANTESIS FLORI'DANA n. sp. 



Male expands one and one half inches. Antenna? 

 black or very dark, densely bipectinate, the pectina- 

 tions tapering to the tip. Head and thorax of the 

 same colcr as the primaries. The under surface and 

 sides of head, thorax and abdomen black. A broad 



