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Psyche 
[December 
Weston: west of the road to Lincoln, about alders, two 
localities, abundant in all stages, 1923. 
Near the Lowell avenue locality in Newtonville larvae were 
found on the carrion flower ( Smilax herbacea) feeding on the 
large woolly aphid (N eoprociphilus attenuatus) that infests that 
plant. All of these larvae were light pink in color and unmarked, 
but the butterflies reared from them were indistinguishable from 
those reared from larvae found feeding on the woolly aphid of 
the alder ( Schizoneura tessellata ) . 
Two pupal skins from which the butterflies had emerged 
were found. One of these, at the Lowell avenue locality in New- 
tonville, was about four feet up on the main trunk of a large 
alder which had no aphids on its branches; the trunk was about 
three inches in diameter. The head of the pupa was directed 
downward. The other, from the locality in Essex near the 
Manchester line, was on the upper side of an alder leaf about a 
foot from the ground and directly beneath a large colony of 
aphids about six feet above it. The leaf was smeared with the 
exudations from the aphids to which cast skins and “wool” 
adhered. The pupa was in the inner half of the leaf and was 
attached to one of the veins near the midrib; its axis was paralle 
to the vein and its head was directed outward toward the margin 
of the leaf. In both these cases the larvae had evidently dropped 
to the ground and thence crawled up to the supports on which 
they were found. 
This is the easiest to rear of any of our butterflies, but reared 
adults are so very much more variable than those caught wild as 
to be practically useless for comparative purposes. Reared spe- 
cimens in collections should be always labeled as such. 
Chrysophanus thoe Boisduval 
Essex: Marshy spot at the base of a dry hillside near 
Bixby’s camps, Apple street, September 1, 1925, one female 
(A. B. J. C.). 
