SS SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 



The following species of Yenessa are also to be found in 

 our neighborhood. 



Vanessa carye (Hubner). 



This is our common, everyday butterfly, the caterpillar of 

 which feeds upon all plants Malvaceous; this little worm has 

 the constructive habit of the genus, by forming a house to live 

 in and then eating it. Its method is to draw the lateral edges 

 of a leaf together and fasten them with silk, thus forming a 

 tubular protection to the larva, which devours its dwelling at 

 liesure. This species is a true native, found only in the 

 maritime portions of the Golden "West. 



Vanessa Atlanta (Linn). 



The common name of this species is the Eed Admiral. It 

 has much the same habits as the "Painted-lady" though its 

 range is not so great. It is found all over the United States 

 of North America and over all Europe. The food plants of 

 the caterpillar are nettles and hops. It is a showy butterfly 

 and bears upon each upper wing a strangely marked band of 

 red. It is not a common insect and uncertain in appearing. 



Vanessa Huntera (Fab). 



This is also a California insect, the markings of which are 

 clearly and beautifully delineated, after the style of the 

 "Painted-lady" but a great deal prettier. The food plants of 

 its caterpillar are Gnaphalium Californicum, which grows in 

 dry places. It may also be found on some species of Artemisia. 



This butter fly inhabits the United States of North America 

 and Mexico, is generally distributed, but not common. 



(Ocean Park.) 



Additions to the Lichen-flora of Southern Ca-IiforniBL. 



Pa.rt II. 



BY DR. H. E. HASSE. 



Lecanora spodo.phaeiza, Nyl. (Cr. Ic.) Santa Barbara Island. 



(Trask.) "Spores oblong or fusiform-oblong, 



simple or spuriously I-septate." 

 " calcarea (L.) Somm. Eocks, SMK. A Lichen with 



variable thallus. giving rise to several var. and 



forms. 

 " giaucocarpa depauperata, (Cr. 1. c.) and the form 



pruinifera. Rocks SMR. and elsewhere ; also a 



multiform Lichen. 

 " • simplex, Nyl. f. complicata. Crombie (1. c.) A form 



with merely an angulose and plicate margin. 



Throug'hout. 

 (Acarospora) EPILUTESCENS. A. Zahlbr. Spec. 



nov. (1. c). Palm Springs. 



