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1959
Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society
71
THE BUTTERFLIES OF MISSISSIPPI—SUPPLEMENT NO. 1 by Bryant Mather and Katharine Mather
Information developed since "The Butterflies of Mississippi" went to press permits two species to be moved from the "probable or possible" list to the list oi those known to occur and requires two of those listed as "known" to be moved to the probable or possible category. Thus there are still 122 species known to occur in Mississippi. Information on these four species is summarized below; the numbers are those used in the check list and in the annotated list:
37. Strymon favonius (J. E. Smith). S. favonius was included on the basis of a letter stating that a specimen had been found in the collection of the American Museum of Natural History. We have now examined this specimen and discussed it with Prof. A. B. Klots. It is Strymon Ontario. S. favonius is therefore not yet known to occur in Mississippi. This specimen however extends the known range of occurrence of S. Ontario in Mississippi from Hinds Co. in the central section to the Gulf Coast— Biloxi, Harrison Co.
88. Erynnis baptising (Forbes). E. baptisicz was included on the basis of two 9 $ taken at Clinton, Hinds Co., on 8 and 9 June 1951. The one taken on 8 June was examined by Mr. John M. Burns of the University of California, together with 535 other specimens of various species of Eyrn-nis from our collection, and determined to be Erynnis zarucco. Since the other specimen was taken at the same locality one day later, we assume that it too is E. zarucco and that E. baptisi<% is not yet known from Mississippi.
130. Strymon kingi Klots & Clench. We took two c?cf, one each on 30 May and 1 June 1958 at Brownsville, Hinds Co. Both were resting on leaves in the shade along side a dirt road. They were examined at the AMNH by Prof. Klots and determined as S. kingi. These dates suggest that S. kingi occurs in central Mississippi at about the same time that it occurs in the Atlanta, Georgia, area since Mr. Lucien Harris Jr. told us that it is most abundant there during the last week in May. This occurrence extends the recorded range by about 220 miles southwest from Sipsey, Walker Co., Alabama.
160. Lerodea neamathla Skinner & Williams. We took a male on 2 August 1958 at Ocean Springs, Jackson Co. It was examined by Prof. Klots at the AMNH, compared with Evans' figure of the <$ genitalia, and determined as L. neamathla. Ocean Springs is only about 45 miles from Mobile, Ala., the locality of the specimen figured by Klots (1951).
Two species may be removed from, and one added to, the list of those of which only a single Mississippi specimen is known. S. favonius is removed and L. neamathla added, as described above. Amblyscirtes Carolina is removed since Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Roshore took a second specimen at Brownsville, Hinds Co., on 15 June 1958, very close to the locality where they
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took the previous specimen on 2 September 1957. These dates may be compared with the report by the Clarks that there appeared to be three broods in Virginia: March-April, May-August, and August-September.
Numerous additions to the data for distribution of species in time and space could be recorded. The most recent is the record of the occurrence of Euptychia her me s sosybia in Mississippi in February (Raymond, Hinds Co., 28 February 1959).
A significant deletion from the data on distribution in time is the deletion of the September record given in Table 3 for E. brizo brizo. Hutchins (1933) reported: "Thanaos brizo somnus Lint. One specimen in State College collection determined by Dr. H. G. Dyar." Through the courtesy of Dr. Hutchins, we borrowed this specimen for determination. The label reads: "26 Sept 1928, Utica, Hinds Co., Miss., F. Lewis, feeding on Daubentonia longifolia, determined by H. G. Dyar." Before sending this specimen to Mr. John M. Burns, we had been unable to obtain a determination of it. Mr. Burns advises: "The specimen, though very worn, clearly possesses a set of hyaline spots and is a zarucco 9 ." With the correction of this error, the flight period of E. b. brizo in Mississippi is now confined to February, March, and April; and E. b. somnus may be deleted from the Mississippi list. The association with Daubentonia is consistent with the reference in Klots (1951) to Sesbanea grandiflora as a foodplant of E. zarucco in Cuba.
We have noted seven typographical errors in "The Butterflies of Mississippi," as follows:
p.69, col.2, item 10, for "tucgeri" read "tuckeri"
p.81, par.37, 3rd line from end, for "AMNM" read "AMNH"
p.85, par.53, 3rd line from end, for '"Septembre" read "September"
p.99, par. 118, lines 3-4, delete "through July and September"
p. 102, par. 159, line 2, for "Klotz" read "Klots"
p. 104, Table 3. line 59, for "curytheme" read "eurytheme"
p. 105, Table 3, line 105, for e<alabamac read " alabamce"
We plan to prepare additional supplements as further data are developed. We are compiling data on Mississippi moths with the hope of publishing at a future date. We would greatly appreciate any data that can be sent to us as well as comments, suggestions, and notation of other errors in "The Butterflies of Mississippi".
References
Hutchins, Ross E., 193 3. Annotated list of Mississippi Rhopalocera. Canad. Ent. 65:
210-213. Klots, Alexander B., 1951. A field guide to the butterflies. Houghton Mifflin Co.,
Boston, 349 pp. Mather, Bryant, & Katharine Mather, 1958. The butterflies of Mississippi. Tulane Stud. Zool. 6: 63-109, 6 figs.
P. O. Drawer 2131, Jackson, Miss., U. S. A.