Jan., '04] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 4I 



The Distribution of Catopsilia Eubule. — The range of this spe- 

 cies seems to be attracting the attention of some of the readers of the 

 News, and, observing the note of Mr. Witmer Stone in the October 

 number, I am tempted to say that having for a number of summers made 

 my home at Spring Lake, New Jersey, and other points on the New 

 Jersey coast, I never failed to find the insect quite abundant in August 

 and September. In the summer of 1896 and 1897, it was particularly 

 common, so that we ceased to pay any more attention to it than to the 

 common Colias philodice. My friend. Dr. A. E. Ortmann, informs me 

 that the species is very abundant at Princeton, New Jersey, ii^ the fall, 

 and that he has found the larvae on its food-plant. Cassia viarylandica, 

 all through the Stony Brook valley, near Princeton. In western Penn- 

 sylvania it is scarce, but it has been taken a number of times in the 

 vicinity of Pittsburgh, and I have a specimen taken as far north as Mead- 

 ville, Pa. It occurs occasionally in Ontario and Wisconsin, and in the 

 lower valley of the Ohio it is not at all rare. 



By the by, the generic name of the insecl is the one above given. The 

 name Callidryas, according to the best usage, is confined to the species 

 occurring in the old world and the name Catopsilia to the species of the 

 new world. There is a clear line of structural difference between the 

 Indo Malaysian and Ethiopian species on the one hand, and the Neotro- 

 pical species on the other. — VV. J. Holland, Director Carnegie Museum. 



Catopsilia Eubule North of Pennsylvania. — I have read with 

 interest the remarks published from time to lime in the News regarding 

 the northern range of Catopsilia eubule. Mr. Stone, in the November 

 issue, remarks that he has not until this year observed it north of Cape 

 May County, New Jersey. 



More than twenty years ago I used to take this species near East 

 Hampton, Long Island, where it occurred in September. It was not es- 

 "pecially rare, though usually very difficult to capture, seldom alighting, 

 but flying steadily across country or along the ocean beach. I never 

 observed it more than a mile inland, where vegetation begins to grow 

 more thickly. Petunias, Gladioli, and other flowers around the seaside 

 cottages would occasionally tempt one of them and make its capture 

 possible. 



Summer before last (1902), for the first time, I observed eubule at 

 Greenwich, Conn., near the shore of the Sound, and last summer several 

 were seen, in October. 



The remark of Scudder (Guide to the Butterflies, iSgg^ that the ap- 

 pearance of C eubule m the northern States "maybe entirelv due to 

 migration" seems to me at least very possible. Its habit of flight as 

 observed on the Long Island roast would suggest this, and in this con- 

 nection is another observation that has always impressed me ; C eubule 

 is an extremely wary and strong flying butterfly when seen in this region, 

 but in Florida it is not especially so. In fact, I have usually found it 

 there among the easiest species to capture.— W. C. Wood. 



