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laciniata, and is not often observed on any other but this cone-flower. 

 In the Huachuca mountains Eudamus cellus is its companion in rifling 

 the yellow flowers of Rudheckia. On these flowers, according to 

 Kunze, bellus seems to be less protected than cellus. 



In their list of the butterflies of North Carolina published in March 

 1907 Clement Samuel Brimley and Franklin Sherman, Jr., recorded 

 Eudamus cellus from Tryon in the extreme southwestern part of the 

 State, where it flies in May, June, and July. 



Karl R. Coolidge and Victor L. Clemence wrote in 191 1 that in 

 Ramsey Canon, in the Huachuca Mountains, Cochise County, Ariz., 

 at an altitude of 5,000 to 7,000 feet, cellus first appeared about the 

 middle of June but was not plentiful until July. In the same article 

 Dr. J. H. McDunnough said that the collection of Dr. William Barnes 

 contained a specimen of AcJialarus pscudoccllus bearing the label " W. 

 Va." We have examined this specimen and agree with Dr. McDun- 

 nough that it is an example of Rhahdoides pscudocellus. The label 

 is in the handwriting of W. H. Edwards. Mr. Edwards was not aware 

 that together with cellus in Arizona there lives a second smaller species 

 of the same size as cellus as it occurs in West Virginia. It is possible 

 that in looking over his collection he saw among the larger Arizona 

 specimens a small individual apparently agreeing with those from 

 West Virginia and, thinking a mistake had been made, changed the 

 label on the latter. 



Dr. Henry Skinner in 191 1, under Eudamus {Rhahdoides) cellus, 

 republished French's description of the imago, and Scudder's descrip- 

 tions of the last-stage caterpillar and pupa. He gave the range as 

 from West Virginia to the Gulf of Mexico, Texas, Arizona, and 

 Mexico. He repeated the localities given by Scudder, omitting Ken- 

 tucky, and those given by Godman and Salvin. He added Colima, 

 Mexico, and Nashville, Tenn., August 19 (Osburn). The food plant, 

 he said, is Breweria aquatica. He remarked that from the dates of 

 capture it would seem that there are two broods of this species. He 

 quoted Smyth's account of its occurrence in Montgomery County, Va. 



In his reprint of Jacob Hubner and Carl Geyer's Zutrage published 

 in 1908-1912 Kirby listed Cecrops festus, adding the information that 

 the figure represents a female and indicating that the specimen came 

 from Mexico. The distribution of the species is given as North 

 America. Foster H. Benjamin called our attention to the fact that 

 very few of Hiibner's species came from Mexico and suggested that 

 the original of Cecrops festus was more likely to have come from the 

 eastern United States. We find that Kirby listed only 14 of Hiibner's 

 species from Mexico, whereas 117 were listed as from the eastern 



