534 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [September, 



his specimen, at least so far as I was concerned, and I knew 

 the Ma}- News was the first entomological journal to appear. 



WTien I arrived at the Academy on the afternoon of April 

 19th, I learned that Dr. Strecker had visited the same institu- 

 tion, shortly after the janitor had arisen from his night's 

 repose, and consulted the Biologia. In a couple of days I 

 received by mail a single printed sheet, bearing the following : 



"DESCRIPTION OF NEOPHASIA EPYAXA, 



A NKVV AND CURIOUS PlbRID FROM ARIZONA. 



By Dr. Herman Strecker, Reading, Pa., April 21st, 1900." 



The paper begins : "A remarkable insect was figured in the 

 last issue (April) of the Entomological News. ' ' Further on 

 the paper says, — " and serves to illustrate what a wonderland 

 is Arizona." Now here was " a pretty kettle of fish." The 

 editor of the News had " let the cat out of the bag," and what 

 was he to say to Dr. Barnes? Whether Dr. Strecker hired a 

 special train to take him to Reading or whether he paid the printer 

 a bonus for the sheet, red hot off the press, is not known. Doubt- 

 less the special sheet cost him quite a number of his good dollars. 



Some time prior to the year 1 868 the Baron Terloot de Pope- 

 laire, for reasons unknown to the writer, crossed the Sierra 

 Madre Mountains in Mexico, on a line drawn between Mazatlan 

 and Durango. At that time it was a wild and dangerous ride 

 through an inhospitable country, and the region was infested 

 by fierce Apache Indians. While on his journey, he came to 

 the cold pine forest region and .saw a butterfly fluttering at a 

 considerable height between the fronds of the coniferous trees : 

 it finally alighted on a Loraiithus, the only plant in flower 

 in the vicinity. For reasons known to himself he captured the 

 butterfly and put it in his pocketbook. If you will turn to page 

 304 of the Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. for 1868-69, you will find the 

 following: " A^. terlooii nov. spec. Alw antic(C loni^itudinaliti) 

 dimidiate, dimidium siiperius nigrum, fascia maailari repanda 

 alba interscfljnn, dimidium iuferius rum a/is posticis album.''' 



Dr. Barnes recently sent me a male of the wonderful Arizona 

 I*ierid, and, strange to say, it was black and rvhitc. More won- 

 derful still, it agreed perfectly with the above Latin dcscrijition. 

 But we should not plunge into these matters, — be sure before 



