PSYCHK. 



ABNORMAL LEPIDOPTERA. 



The plate which we publish herewith shows an interesting group of abnormal 

 moths and butterflies. 



Fig. I is a much reduced likeness of a specimen of Attacus cecropia 9 , reared 

 by Mr. A. C. Sampson of Sharon, Mass., and now in the collection of Mr. H. H. 

 Newcomb. This moth has a supernumerary wing, proceeding from the thorax just 

 in front of the normal right primary, and though imperfectly expanded constituting 

 in all its recognizable features a duplicate of that wing. In other respects the 

 moth seems to be a perfectly normal specimen. 



Fig. 2, likewise reduced from the original, shows an asymmetrical Telea polyphe- 

 mus $ , reared by Mr. J. H. Rogers, Jr., of Medford, Mass., and now in his collec- 

 tion. The left primary and right secondary are elongated, while the right primary 

 and the left secondary are shortened and compressed. Gauged by the combined 

 areas of primary and secondary, the right and left sides of this specimen are 

 approximately equal. 



Fig. 3 is a life-size view of a male specimen of Oleue leucophaea, reared in 1901 

 by O. Seifert, Esq., and now in the collection of Mr. E. J. Smith. The moth has 

 four antennae. 



Fig. 4 shows a female Colias philodke taken by Mr. J. H. Rogers, Jr., at Med- 

 ford, Mass., of which the wings of the left side are yellow and those of the right 

 side white. The specimen is asymmetrical also, the wings of the left side being 

 larger than those of the right and differing from them in shape. 



All of the foregoing were photographed by Mr. H. H. Newcomb. 



Figures 5, 6, and 7 were contributed by Mr. William Beutenmiiller. 



Fig. 5 represents an " hermaphrodite " (or more properly a gynandromorphous) 

 example of Fieris brassicae, taken in Germany by Mr. E. Daecke ; and Figures 6 

 and 7 give two aspects of a specimen of Automeris io presenting the same phe- 

 nomenon. (It is worthy of notice that in each of these cases the left side is the 

 one bearing the female characters.) This specimen came from the vicinity of New 

 York City, and was reared from the larval state by the late S. Lowell Elliot. Mr. 

 Beutenmiiller has already published an account of it in the American Museum 

 Journal, Vol. 11, 1902, p. 39. 



