igoi] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEV/S, I9 



A New Variety of Lepisesia, 



By David Bruce, Brockport, N. Y. 

 Lepisesia ulalume var. rachel. 



Expands i}i inches, thus is somewhat smaller than ulahime, and has the 

 light colored bar which crosses primaries and secondaries, lighter in color, 

 wider and more distinct than in ulalume. This variety may be known at 

 once from the sulphur-yellow color of the head, thorax, collar and pata- 

 giae, whereas in ulalume the collar and thorax are intense black. 



Ulalume was described and figured by Dr. Strecker in his 

 Rhop. and Het., and the type was taken in Oregon b)^ Prof. 

 O. B. Johnson. I was collecting larvae of Alypia lorquini on 

 Epilobmm and found a large Sphinx lar^^a looking very much 

 like that of T. abbotii. The anal horn was absent, and a 

 shining button was in its place. I fed it carefully and it pulled 

 a leaf or two over itself on the soil and pupated, and appeared 

 as a moth in February. The specimen is therefore from Colo- 

 rado, and is now in the collection of the Academy of Natural 

 Sciences of Philadelphia. 



Prof. W. G. Johnson, State Entomologist, located at the State Agri- 

 cultural College of Maryland, resigned his position on December 14th, to 

 accept the editorship of the " American Agriculturist," which has offices 

 in New York, Springfield, Mass., and Chicago, 111. He will locate per- 

 manently in New York. Prof. Johnson leaves Maryland with the esteem 

 and good-will of those acquainted with his work. The Horticultural 

 Society of Maryland at a recent meeting adopted resolutions stating that 

 the Association was justly proud of the eminence Prof. Johnson had ac- 

 quired throughout the United States by reason of his devotion to and pro- 

 ficiency in his profession. It is likely that Prof. H. P. Gould, Prof. John- 

 son's assistant, will succeed him as State Entomologist. 



Mr. G. Wesley Browning, of Salt Lake City, Utah, is not only an 

 entomologist but also an artist of ability. Last year he very kindly made 

 the drawing, Stenopelmatus fasciatus, for the cover of the News, and this 

 year he has made for us the fine drawing of both sexes of Epicallia vir- 

 gitialis. This species is abundant in July in the beautiful canon which 

 supplies Salt Lake City with water from the Wasatch Mountains. Mr, 

 Browning has a most interesting field of work, as the individual canons in 

 the Wasatch seem to have a few species not found in the others. The sand 

 dunes between Saltair and Garfield Beach on the Great Salt Lake would 

 doubtless repay careful study, and might prove a mine of entomological 

 treasures. 



