July i8g5,l 



PSYCHE. 



403 



Wings with opaque streak at distal lliird of 

 costal mai-giu, the ulnar area much expanded 

 to the entire exclusion of the distal part of 

 the discoidal. Anterior and middle femora 

 of the ? slender, of the $ stout. 



Genital segnientof J ver^' like that of Z). vir- 

 ic/is; ovipositor of $ with the inferior tooth 

 of the lower valves smaller than in viridis. 



In color varying from light olivaceous 

 green to dark greenish lirown, with a dark 

 brown stripe from hind margin of eyes along 

 the sides of the pronotum, sometimes con- 

 tinued upon the humeral field of the tegmen. 

 On the pronotum and head this stripe is 

 usually about one-fourth the width of the 

 side of the pronotum but sometimes becomes 

 barely perceptible; it sometimes appears 

 upon the disk as a narrow line just within 

 the lateral carinae of the metazona. 



Antenna. H. fern. Teg. Teg--<H. fern. Body. Tnt.il lengtti. 

 tf 7.5-S 10 .05 2.5 17 ifi 



9 .S 12. .1 '2 4 20. 5-2! K, 



Described from 5 (^ , 2 9 i : 9 , 

 Anglesea, N. J., labelled by Prof. 

 L. Bruner, received from Prof. J. B. 

 Smith. \$. I 9, Ravensvvood, L. I., 

 Beiitenmiilier ; i $ , Ga. ; \ ^ , Mtl. ; 

 1$ without locality; — all the.=.e latter 

 from Mr. Sciidder's collection. 



Tills species agrees with the descrip- 

 tion of occidental is in the form of the 

 pronotum and disposition of the lateral 

 carinae, hut the median carina is not 

 sufticiently elevated to be properly 

 called stdicristiform, and the vertex 

 of the head is distinctly depressed 

 behind the front margin, a character 

 in which it diBers markedly from the 

 description of mystcctis which occi- 

 dentalis is stated to closely resemble. 

 In superficial appearance the female 

 recalls the short-winged form of Slcii. 

 curtipcintis, from which it is readily- 

 distinguished by the absence of foveolae. 



NOTES OX THE OVIfO.SlTKJN OF 

 THAN A OS /CELUS (?). 



May 27, 1894, at Turkey Hill, Arlington, 

 Mass., I noticed a species of Thanaos flut- 

 tering around a plant oi Baptisia tinctoria m 

 if to lay eggs, returning to tlie same plant 

 several times and finally laying a single egg, 

 in two seconds, upon the upper side of a 

 young and tender leaf near the base. This 

 occurred at one o'clock on a warm, sunny 

 day. Three more eggs were found upon the 

 same plant. By searching, a dozen more 

 such eggs were found, one or two on each 

 plant, nine on one plant, always single and 

 on the upper surface of the leaf. Numerous 

 eggs were foimd similarly on May 30, also 

 nests of a young Thanaos on Bapt'sia. June 

 3, a long and careful search revealed abundant 

 nests, but only a single egg, and the imagos 

 had become rare. The eggs were pure white 

 when laid, turning pink or orange v\ithin 

 four liours; base flattened, sides little- 

 rounded, summit depressed; longitudinal 

 ribs ten, transverse ridges wide, prominent, 

 quite concave; at micropyle a saucer-like 

 depre.ssion with hexagonal margin; breadth 

 of egg, 0.76 mm. -yuslus W. Fohom. 



C.\LEPHELls BoREALis Looking over 



some miscellaneous entomological material 

 the other day, which material had been cap- 

 tured by some of the students for the Station 

 collection during the past summer, in this 

 (Montgomery; County, I came across two 

 unidentified specimens of Calephelis borea- 

 lis. I closely questioned the student, but he 

 could remember nothing as to date or imme- 

 diate locality, or in fact anything, save that 

 they had been caught near Blacksburg last 

 summer. I note this, for while the butter- 

 fly has been taken in West Virginia by Mr. 

 W. H. Edwards, I believe this is the first 

 Virginia record, and any information con- 

 cerning this species is desirable. 



Ellison A. Smyths J,-. 

 Blacksburg, Va , Maych 2y, tSqh. 



