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CLENCH: Crambidia allegheniensis Vol.8: nos.3-4
just before middle of cell; Rs and Mi well stalked from upper angle of cell; ML> absent; M3 and Q11 well stalked from lower angle of cell; Cu2 from middle or just before middle of cell (opposite the origin of Sc + Ri).
A few inaccuracies in Holland's description want correction: Frons, vertex and patagia {i.e., collar) are orange, not "pale yellow"; palpi yellow orange; thorax and tegulse brownish tan, the former tinged with orange posteriorly; abdomen dorsally very pale yellowish with a touch of gray in middle; below pale gray, becoming yellowish posteriorly; terminal tuft yellow tinged with orange above; the legs are orange yellow, fore and middle legs with faint tinge of tan dorsally on tibia and tarsal segments; forewing below with a terminal yellow band on outer margin; costa with a long posteriorly-directed fringe of short scales below; hindwing very pale yellow, the costa narrowly grayish (especially below); remainder of description as in HOLLAND.
The foregoing agrees perfectly with the European species, Eilema com-plana Linn. (cf. Hampson, Cat. Lep. Phal. Br. Mus. 2: 164; 1900; and Seitz, in Seitz, Grossschmett. Erde 2: 68. pi. 12 i,k (Lithosia c); 1910), and accordingly Holland's Crambidia allegheniensis must be synonymized to this species.
Since Holland captured the specimen himself, there is small possibility of mislabeling being the reason for its occurrence here. I rather suspect that a pupa was imported with some horticultural material, from which the moth emerged to fly into Holland's net and our lists.
Section of Insects & Spiders, Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh 13, Penna., U. S. A.
NYMPHALIS CALIFORNIA: A NEW RECORD FOR PENNSYLVANIA
Mr. and Mrs. C. G. Merker, of Warrendale (Allegheny Co.), Pennsylvania, recently showed me a pair of Nymphalis californica Boisduval which they had taken near their home on sugar at about dusk, on 2 September 1945. One of these they have most generously given to the Carnegie Museum. A third specimen also was taken, but was released in the hope that it was a female who would show her gratitude by laying some eggs. The species, however, has never turned up since, despite active searching.
It is interesting, and possibly significant, that Voss' (Lepid. News 4: 46; 1950) unusual record of this species (one, on damp sand along the Straits of Mackinac, Emmet Co., Michigan) was taken the same year, in the same month, and almost on the same day: 6 September 1945!
HARRY K. Clench, Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh 13, Penna., U. S. A.