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short visit, and died just after the journey home. One left be- 

 hind in a muslin bag, on willow, was found a week afterward, 

 by Mr. Whitney, to have died without depositing. * 



Polygonia Progne. A single female was taken ; it has never 

 before been found in this region. 



Nymphalis J-album. One or two specimens only were seen 

 on the 4th, apparently just out of winter quarters ; they appear 

 later, I believe, than other hibernating Praefecti, and these 

 were seen on the sunny side of a barn, which had probably 

 served as their winter refuge. 



Papilio Antiopa. Half a dozen specimens were seen. 



Aglais Milberti. A single female was taken. 



S. H. Scudder. 



Entomological Excursiox to Waverley. — On the 7th of May 



the members of the Club, to the number of half a dozen, made an excur- 

 sion to the vicinity of Waverley. The day proved unfavorable, as there 

 was a raw wind which kept the insects out of sight, and. very little was 

 accomplished. 



Of Coleoptera very few specimens were taken, and those of common spe- 

 cies, the most noteworthy being a specimen of Badister notatus, a species 

 which is rare in this vicinity, and Diccelus elongatus, common about Waver- 

 ley, though rare elsewhere in the vicinity of Boston. 



Of Lepidoptera Mr. Morrison obtained a perfect specimen of Anticlea 

 vasiliala Guen., a species not common in this vicinity. 



Caterpillars of Basilarchm Disippe were obtained on three species of wil- 

 lows, either eating the catkins for want of leaves, or still concealed in their 

 hibernacula. The observations of the party showed that they hibernate 

 both in the second and third stages, and that each makes a winter abode of 

 just the size of its body, into which it crawls head foremost, and which it 

 must vacate in the spring by a retreating movement. The caterpillar 

 moults very soon after re-appearing, and one was found nearly half grown 

 upon a twig still bearing only catkins. E. P. Austin. 



Vernacular Names for Butterflies. — Editor Psyche: I very 

 much approve of Mr. Scudder's list of vernacular names for our butterflies. 

 Permit me to stand sponsor in your columns for the following : 



Calephelis borealis. — The large Metal-mark. 



Calephelis pumila. — The small Metal-mark. 



Feniseca Tarqulnius. — The Wanderer. Aug. R. Grote. 



