Oct., '03] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 261 



Papilio palamedes appear about the loth of March, and are 

 quite common along the streams for about a month. The Pa- 

 pilio turiuis are considerably larger than those found in the 

 North, and all the females I have thus far taken have been of 

 the melanic variety. I saw two Apatura alicia closely in De- 

 cember, but was unable to capture either one of them ; both 

 were in poor condition. I find the Libythea bachma7i7ii mod- 

 erately common on the wild plum during the few days it is in 

 bloom, which is usually about the last of February, but at 

 other times this species is very scarce. 



A list of the Rhopalocera which are scarce in Thomasville 

 between December and May (which is the time I am usually 

 in Thomasville) would indicate the following : 



Euptoieta claudia (common later on) Limenitis astyanax 



Lycaena contyntas " " " Thecla halesus 



Calephelis caenvus " " " Thanaos sofnnus 



Afiosia berenice Thanaos naevius 



Anaea portia Apatura alicia 



Libythea bachmanm Lerema accius 



Vanessa antiopa Limenitis disippus ? 



Vanessa cardui Achalarus lycidas 



Pieris protodice 



I collected Heterocera at light this spring for the first time 

 in Georgia, and a few of the more desirable were : 2 9 Xy- 

 leutes robini(E ; 2 Citheronia sepulcralis ; 3 Lagoa pyxidifera ; 

 I Parorgyia leucophaea ; Apatela occidentalis ; LLypsoropha moni- 

 lis ; Hypsoropha hormos ; Chloridea viresceris and Actinotia 

 ramosula. 



This year I tried general collecting for the first time with 

 good success, having had special luck among the Orthoptera, 

 all of which Mr. Rehn has very kindly identified for me. I 

 also took Coleoptera, only a few of which have as yet been 

 identified. 



Some of the interesting specimens are : i Deltochihim gibbo- 

 sum^ 3 Phanaeus igneiis, 3 Geotrupes retiisus, i Geotrupes ege- 

 riei, 2 Hoplia trifasciata, 2 Silpha surinamensis , i Trichius 

 viridulus, 3 Mallodoji dasystomus, i Prionus inibricollis and four 

 of the scarce Po77iphop€cca polita which I took at the arc lights. 

 The specimens from other groups are all as yet unidentified. 



