172 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [November, 



as the wet meadow quantities of Hyssop — Hyssopus officinalis, 

 Mountain Mint — Pycnanthemum aristatum, var. kyssopifolium, 

 and Blue Vervain — Verbena hastata, were in bloom. Here I took 

 many Pamphilae, Argynnis myrina, a specimen of Limeyiitis 

 disippus and a few Colias philodice, which swarmed around the 

 plants of the mint family. All at once a — to me — very strange 

 looking specimen with wings of a golden hue and of such con- 

 trast from the color of Colias, came out from the Alder bushes, 

 that it attracted my attention at once. It had a jerky flight, 

 like Satyrus alope, and gave me some work before I took it with 

 that small net. Shortly after I started up another male of this 

 same rare visitor and took the second Terias nicippe. About 

 noon I saw a third male sipping moisture from the black mud 

 along a cow path, and not wishing to soil the net, flushed it first, 

 and, after a fruitless chase through mud and mire, lost it alto- 

 gether, pursuit in that swamp of Alder — Alnus serrulata, being 

 an impossibility. 



Hungry and parched, we started homeward, and reaching high 

 ground again, my companion, Mr. Louis Kohl, drew my attention 

 to a very conspicuous white flowering shrub at a distance from 

 us in another part of the swamp. Thither we started, and on 

 the way, near edge of swamp, I saw for the first time the food- 

 plant of the larva of T. nicippe in full bloom, which is American 

 Senna — Cassia marilandica. With its masses of yellow, pea- 

 flower shaped blossoms, it at first hid from my sight a female T. 

 nicippe, which was inspecting its pinnate leaves in a fluttering, 

 kind of a suggestive way. I gave the net to my friend and he 

 took a perfect female at the first stroke of the net. We discov- 

 ered no ova. 



As we neared the white-flowering shrub, which proved to be 

 Sweet-scented Pepperbush — Clethra alnifolia, we passed any 

 number of Cassia marilandica from four to eight feet high, and 

 which proved the centre of attraction of T. nicippe. These plants 

 grew in submerged meadow land mostly along the edge of im- 

 passable jungle of Rhus venenata, Alnus serrulata, Acer rubra 

 and a few Clethra alnifolia, intermingled with briars and the vines 

 of Clematis virginiana and Ampelopsis qiiinquefolia. Most of 

 these senna plants grew on the edge of a horseshoe-shaped piece 

 of meadow, at the concave end of which stood the fragrant 

 White Alder, or Pepperbush so called. This spot proved to be 



