Vol. XXXl] EXTO.MOLOGICAL NEWS 175 



The Louisiana Entomological Society. 



A note announcing the formation on March 5, at New Orleans, of a 

 society under this name appeared in Science for April 16, 1920. It has 

 a membership of about twenty-five and is domiciled at the Natural History 

 Building of the Louisiana State Museum. The President is Edward 

 Foster, the Secretary-Treasurer E. T. Holloway. 



A New Variety of Lemonias (Lepidoptera). 

 Lemonias palmeri marginalis n. var. 



The wings above have an orange marginal border about i mm. wide 

 and the ground-color of the wings is lighter than in palmeri and the white 

 spots contrast strongly with the background. This variety has quite a 

 different facies from the species. 



Type male and paratypes male and female from Acme, California, Aug- 

 ust 8, 1919 (Morgan Hebard). Types in the collection of The Academy 

 of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. — Henry Skixxer. 



Pamphila calif ornica (Lepidoptera). 



Pamphila cahfornica Wright was described and figured in Wright's 

 Butterflies of the West Coast, 1905, p. 241, pi. 31, f. 423, b, c. This is 

 one of the numerous varieties of Pamphila comma. 



Another Pamphila californica was previously described and it is a diffi- 

 cult one to make out from the description. The author of the species 

 is P. Mabille, Bull. Comptes-Rendus, Soc. Ent. Belg. 1883, p. Ixviii. 

 This translation of the description will probably be of interest to the 

 students of the Rhopalocera in California: 

 "Pamphila californica n sp. 



Wings brownish, mixed with fulvous near the costa, with a thick oblique 

 fuscous streak; end of cellule fuscous; fringe grayish. Wings beneath 

 ochraceous. 



"This species greatly resembles P. /iwea of Europe. Superiors brown, 

 with bright fulvous spots on the costa and around a thick black streak 

 running obliquely from the extremity of the cellule to the inner border. 



"The end of the cellule is somewhat darker brown. Beneath, superiors 

 ochraceous. with the middle of the disk brighter and the streak faintly 

 reproduced. Inferiors ochraceous, one or two pale yellow dots faintly 

 seen between the nervules. Underside of body yellow like the wings. One 

 male from California." 



Two new names are proposed by Mabille and Boullet for North American 

 Hesperidae in the Bull Ent. Soc. France, 1917, page 100: Pholisora pirus 

 semicaeca and Hesperopsis arizonensis. The former is described from 

 one male from Utah, and the latter from one male from Arizona. 



Henry Skinxer. 



