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Targalla repleta, 



Eutelia repleta, Walker, Lep. Het. Sappl. 3, p. 821 (1865). 

 E. jiJiisioides, Walker, /. c, p. 822 (1865). 

 Ceylon and S. India. Types in Coll. B. M. 



Ta rf/a Ua j)a Uiatrix. 

 Penicillaria palliatrix, Guenee, Noct. 2, p. 305, n. 1113 (1852). 

 Targalla injida, Walker, Lep. Het. xiii. p. 1008, n. 1 (1857). 

 Penicillaria ladatrix, Walker, I.e., xv. p. 1773 (1858). 

 Java, MoLilmein, and Ceylon. Types in Coll. B. M. 



Penicillaria, Gnen. 

 Penicillaria n lu/atrix. 



Penicillaria nugatrix, Guenee, Noct. 2, p. 303, n. 1110 (1852). 



Eutelia simplex, Walker, Lep. Het. Suppl. 3, p. 821 (1865). 



Almorah and Jubbulpore. In Coll. B. M. 



Walker simply noted the Almorah specimens as from North 

 India. His type of Eutelia simplex is a broken and somewhat 

 rubbed example, without any locality label. 



NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS. 



The Comma Butterfly of America. — In " Some Miscellaneous 

 Results of the Work of the Division of Entomology" '''■ Mr. Howard, 

 the entomologist, gives an interesting account of two species allied to 

 our Vanessa [Poliigonia) e-album. These are considered under the 

 heading " Hop Merchants," a term generally used in reference to the 

 chrysalids, but sometimes applied to the imagines also. He says, 

 " An interesting superstition holds among hop-growers, to the effect 

 that when the golden-spotted chrysalids are plentiful the crop will be 

 good and the price high, while if the silver- spotted ones are plentiful 

 and the golden ones are scarce the price will be low." 



The two species dealt with are Puli/gonla intenw/atiouis, Godart, 

 and Pubjdonia eoiuma, Harr. The last named is the smaller species, 

 and almost exactly identical with our Comma butterfly. 



In his remarks on the habits and natural history of P. comma, 

 Mr. Howard states : " In the hop-growing regions of New York the 

 insect is double-brooded, the butterflies hybernating and flying in the 

 early spring, living on into the latter part of May and even June. 

 The first brood of caterpillars lives, in the main, upon elm ; and young 

 elm trees recently set out are frequently injured by the loss of almost 

 their entire foliage in the spring Aside from the elm, this 



•■■ Bulletin No. 7, New Series. U. S. Department of Agriculture. 

 Division of Entomology. Washington, 1B97. 



