Random Notes on Natural History. 



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Celethemis elisa Hagen. May 23, 1898, at Linden Lake, this 

 species was emerging in prodigious numbers, and by the 

 27th had scattered all over the cemetery, resting on grass, 

 bushes, and trees. 



Celethemis fasciata Kirby. 

 Leucorhi?iia hit act a Hagen. 

 Diplax rubicundula Hagen. 

 Diplax assimilata Uhler. 

 Diplax obtrusa Hagen. 

 Diplax vidua Hagen. 

 Diplax semicincta Say 

 Perithemis domitia Drury. 

 Mesothemis simplicicollis Say. 

 Pachydiplax longipennis Burmeister. 



B. LEPIDOPTERA. 



Thecla halesus Cramer. This large and beautiful thecla 

 was taken by me at Cincinnati, September, 1885. A perfectly 

 fresh specimen (female) was perched on the flower of a 

 "golden rod." I have not seen it here since. I have found 

 it abundant in Volusia County, Florida. 



Two species of butterflies new to the State* have been taken 

 at Cincinnati during 1899. They are : 



Thecla irus Godart (taken by Mr. Thiel), and 

 Eudavius lycidas Smith and Abbott, July 23. 



Lemonias duryi Edwards. In his excellent 1 Butterfly Book," 

 p. 230, Dr. Holland says of this species: "The only specimen 

 as yet known is the type" (fig. 10, PI. XXVIII). Five spec- 

 imens were taken by me at the time (April), and more seen. 

 They were flying along near the ground. The locality was 

 among the foothills of the Organ Mountains, about five miles 

 east of Mesilla, N. M. Two of them were sent to Mr. Ed- 

 wards. As compared with the three in my collection, which 

 are quite uniform in color and marking, the figure above 



*See Sixth Annual Report of the Ohio State Academy of Science, pp. 22-27, and 

 Seventh Report, p. 55. 



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