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PSYCHE. 



October 1S93. 



therefore, to regard the climatic forms 

 of Gluphisia as permanent, probably 

 produced by the action of natural selec- 

 tion to fit them to their surroundings. 

 I class them as local races, by which I 

 mean that they are constant in their 



Packard' 's Arrangement. 



1. G. trilineata Pack. 



var. ridenda Hy. Ed. 

 rupta Hv. Ed. 



2. G. albofascia Hy. Ed. 



formosa Hy. Ed. 



3. G. wrightii Hy. Ed. 



sclera 1 1 v. Ed. 

 danbyi Neum. 

 avimacula Huds. 

 var. slossoniae Pack. 



4. G. lintneri Grt. 



characters, but differ only slightly and 

 in unessential particulars from the first 

 described species. 



I give below Dr. Packard's arrange- 

 ment of Gluphisia and my own in par- 

 allel columns. 



Dya r's Arra nge tn cut. 



1. G. trilineata Pack. 



race ridenda Hy. Ed. 

 race quinquelinea Dyar. 



2. G. albofascia Hy. Ed. 



ivrightii Hy. Edw. 

 var. rupta Hy. Ed. 



3. G- formosa Hy. Ed. 



4. G. severa Hv. Ed. 



var. danbyi Neum. 

 race avimacula Huds. 

 var. slossonii Pack. 

 c. G. lintneri Grt. 



In tabular form, I separate the species as follows : — 



Size small ; no basal yellow dot (§ Gluphisia). 



With a yellow (or black) central band on primaries. 

 Markings distinct ...... 



Markings confused and irrorate 

 Pale, with no distinct yellowish markings 

 Size large ; a basal yellow dot on median vein (§ Eumelia) 

 A yellow angular discal dot ..... 



No yellow discal dot . ..... 



trilineata. 



formosa. 



albofascia. 



severa. 

 lintneri. 



Notes. — On September 12th I caught, in 

 Brookline, Mass., a large, battered Papilio 

 cresphontes, which was flying rather feebly 

 about some Salvias. It is the only one I 

 have seen flying in Massachusetts. 



At Nonquitt. Mass.. Miss Ida M. Eliot and 

 I had two larvae, Arctians unknown to .us 

 and certainly not acrea, of a cream-white 

 color. The body was cream-white with three 

 broken, blackish, longitudinal lines. There 



were no dark hairs. These larvae we fed on 

 wild indigo-plant, Baptisia tinctoria, and 

 after a few days the larger larva moulted, 

 coming out of a deep, glossy, indigo-blue 

 color, almost black. The smaller larva first 

 moulted of a deep-blue gray color, then again 

 of a deep blue like the other. These larvae 

 grew to a length of nearly 3 inches, and were 

 very striking in appearance. 



Caroline G. Soule. 



