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ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 



[December, 



line of the others, the fifth the smallest; beyond this row and 

 about half way to the apex is another row of four white spots, 

 the last out of line of the others; a small spot at the posterior 

 angle; all of these transverse spots more or less rounded. In 



the cell are two nar- 

 row bars that do not 

 quite reach from vein 

 to vein, the outer 

 white, but the inner 

 white, s t r o n g 1 }' 

 washed with scarlet. 



The hind wings 

 have a subterminal 

 row of nine white 

 spots, the first, fourth and ninth, small; the second largest. The 

 fore wings show blue reflection in oblique light in the cell up to 

 near the first bar, in the outer part of the cell about the end, at 

 the base below the cell and along the posterior margin. In the 

 same light the hind wings show blue reflection above the sub- 

 costal vein almost to the apex, in the cell to its end, below the 

 cell and lower branch of submedian vein to the outer margin. 

 Head with eight white dots; back of antennae, below antennae, 

 above the eye and back of the eye. Collar with a row of six 

 white dots. Thorax with six white dots on the anterior part and 

 a row of four pale yellow dots across the posterior. Abdomen 

 blue by reflection. 



Beneath, the white spots of the upper side repeated, the space 

 of the scarlet spots solid scarlet and confluent with the first bar 

 in the cell, this bar having no white in it as it has above. The 

 blue reflection is more pronounced than it is on the upper surface. 

 The abdomen is banded with pale yellow and black, the terminal 

 pale band whitish. 



According to Mr. Butler this seems as yet to be a rare species, 

 though Prof. Velie took about a dozen recently. The type speci- 

 men was from Brazil; it has been taken in Central America and 

 once before at Key West, Fla. 



Alexia Argillacea Hiib., was seen sparingly the last week in Sep- 

 tember at Columbus, O. I have not yet seen it in abundance here, whilst 

 at Bufialo, N. Y., scarcely an Autumn passes without the appearance of 

 many. If my observations accord with facts, why the greater abundance 

 at the point so much further from the cotton fields?— D. S. Kellicott. 



