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ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 



[December, 



LEPIDOPTERA IN SOUTH DAKOTA. 



By P. C. Truman, Volga, S. Dak. 



Volga is located in the midst of a vast prairie stretching many 

 miles in every direction. About two miles distant runs the Little 

 Sioux River having a light fringe of timber and brushwood on 

 its banks. Some ten miles away are several s-mall lakes and be- 

 tween small bodies of timber, perhaps 200 acres in all. Aside 

 from that the only trees are a few planted by the farmers and 

 villagers. In this section I have collected Lepidoptera for some 

 six years. But my collecting has been sadly interfered with by 

 professional and other duties. Next to the small boy dried ap- 

 ples have been my greatest aid in capturing the festive "bug." 

 The following is a list of the species I have found here — divided 

 into three classes — common, rare and very rare. 



COMMON. 



Pamphila pawnee 



Danais archippus 

 Euptoieta claudia 

 Argynnis idalia 



" cybele 



" niyrina 

 Phyciodes nycteis 



" carlota 



" tharos 

 Grapta interrogationis 



" comma 

 Vanessa antiopa 

 Pyrameis atalanta 



'• cardui 

 Limenitis disippus 

 Apatura celtis 

 Neonympha canthus 

 Coenonympha ochracea 

 Satyrus olympia 

 Thecla acadica 

 Cnrysophanus thee 



" helloides 



Lycaena melissa 



" comyntas 

 Pieris protodice 



rapae 

 Colias eurytheme 

 Papilio asterias 

 Thymelicus poweshiek 



" peckius 



' ' mystic 



" metacomet 

 Pyrgiis tessellata 

 Pholisora catullus 

 Eudamus tityrus 

 Hemaris diffinis 

 Deilephila lineata 

 Sphinx chersis 

 Ceratomia undulosa 

 Paonias excaecatus 

 Alypia octomaculata 

 Scepsis fulvicollis 

 Euphanessa mendica 

 Crocota ferruginosa 

 Calhmorpha lecontei 

 " vestalis 



Pyrrharctia isabella 

 Leucarctia acrea 

 Spilosoma virginica 

 Euchaetes collaris 

 Halisidota tessellata 



" caryae 



Datana ministra 

 Attacus cecropia 

 Hemileuca nevadensis 

 Clisiocampa americana 



