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Female from Woodrow Aug. 25, 1907 (Skinner and Chapin). 
Male, Staten Island Aug. 22, 1915 (O. Fulda). 
Female, Ft. Wadsworth Sep. 4, 1917 (E. J. Burns). 
Male, Stuyvesant Place, St. George, August 14, 1923 (Lucy 
and Frances Anderson). 
The last mentioned is in the collection of the Staten Island 
Institute and is quite likely the individual seen on Hyatt St., St. 
George, on August 13, when it was examined at close range by 
Mr. Davis and Mr. Leng. A few days later, namely on August 
25, a fine specimen of albofasciata flew across South Av., near 
Lambert Lane, and was seen by Mr. Davis and Mr. Ernest Shoe- 
maker. Search was made for it in the nearby woods to which it 
was blown by a strong wind, and though many astyanax (ursula) 
were found feeding on the over-ripe fruit of a wild cherry, noth- 
ing more was seen of the albofasciata. Mr. Davis showed the 
insect journal Psyche for Feb. 1904, containing the paper Prob- 
lems in the Genus Basilarclua, by W. L. W. Field, and for Oct. 
1907, containing the original description, on page go, of the 
variety albofasciata, and pointed out that Mr. Newcomb mentioned 
‘Staten Island as one of the localities where his newly named form 
was to be found. 3 
Another butterfly of interest appearing in some numbers on 
Staten Island this past summer was Chlorippe clyton B. & L., the 
caterpillar of which feeds on the hackberry or Celtis. On the 
walk of the Bird Club July 14 Mr. Cornelius Denslow found one 
of these butterflies laying eggs on a hackberry tree near Richmond, 
and on a neighboring tree the beautiful green chrysalis of a second 
specimen, since presented to the museum. On Aug. 17 Mr. Davis 
saw a clyton butterfly in Richmond village, and on Aug. 31 he cap- 
tured one sitting on a gravestone in St. Andrew’s churchyard, Rich- 
mond. There are a few earlier records for the insect on the 
island. 
Mr. Davis stated that on Sep. 1, 1923, he and Mr. Frederick M. 
Schott had discovered a nest of a black-billed cuckoo in a low 
tree in dense growth near Bulls Head. The nest contained one 
