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Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society
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valva with less opening in proximal area; less anteriorly tapered lamella postvaginalis. Also, the aedeagus of the L. nigra holotype has 13 cornuti and is about one and a half times longer than the aedeagi of L. miscitata males examined (holotype and three paratypes) which have only 4 to 8 cornuti. The taxonomy of other North American seed-feeding Laspey-resia moths affecting pine is discussed by Heinrich (1926) and Miller (1959).
The one known host of L. nigra, Mexican white pine, belongs to the Haploxylon or soft pine subgenus while the hosts of L. miscitata, Pinus ponderosa Laws, and P. jejfreyi Grev. and Balf. (Keen, 1958), are members of the Diploxylon or hard pine subgenus.
Acknowledgment I am grateful to Maria Luisa Estebanes G., of Coyoacan, D. F., Mexico, for supplying data and examples of the new species.
Literature Cited
Heinrich, C. 1926. Revision of the North American moths of the subfamilies Laspeyresiinae and Olethreutinae. U. S. Natl. Mus. Bull. 132, 216 pp.
Keen, F. P. 1958. Cone and seed insects of western forest trees. U. S. Dept. Agr. Tech. Bull. 1169, 168 pp.
Keots, A. B. 1956. Lepidoptera, pp. 97-111. In: Taxonomist's Glossary of Genitalia in Insects, S. L. Tuxen, ed. 284 pp. Ejnar Munksgaard, Copenhagen.
Miller, W. E. 1959. A unique new North American species of pine-cone-feeding Laspeyresia related to L. ingens Heinrich (Lepidoptera, Olethreutidae). Florida Entom., 42: 131-134.
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BUTTERFLIES OF YAKIMA COUNTY, WASHINGTON, ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS
E. J. Newcomer
1509 Summitview, Yakima, Washington
After the "Butterflies of Yakima County, Washington" was published (Newcomer, 1964), two additional species were taken in the county. Through the cooperation of the U. S. Bureau of Indian Affairs I was issued permits to collect on the Yakima Indian Reservation in 1964 and 1965. Much of the restricted area of the Reservation is heavily forested with Pinus ponderosa and other conifers. Collecting is not very good in heavy forest except in the occasional open meadow.
Signal Peak, about 15 miles east of Mt. Adams,1 has an elevation of 5,111 feet, and above 4,800 feet much of it is open and grassy with many
1 This would place it on the map (Newcomer, 1964) about halfway between Nos. 20 and 24.
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254 Newcomer: More Yakima butterflies Vol. 20, no. 4
wild flowers. Collecting is good here. The following two skippers were taken at this location (determined by Dr. C. Don MacNeill, Oakland, Calif.):
104. Hesperia nevada (Scud.). Signal Peak, June, July. This is the first record for the State of Washington. Common.
105. Polites mardon (Edw.). Signal Peak, July 6, 1964 and June 9 to July 15, 1965. Fairly common on grassy slopes, the females often feeding on blossoms of dandelion and wallflower (Erysimum capitatum (Dougl.), the males usually resting on rocks or bare ground. Stanley Jewett reports having taken two males on Mt. Adams above Bird Lake, elevation about 6,500 feet, August 8, 1955. The type locality is Mt. Hood, about 60 miles southwest of Signal Peak. It has also been collected at Seattle and Grand Mound, in Western Washington. The larvae are known to feed on grass and a probable foodplant here is Festuca ovina L.
Corrections
P. 217, line 17. Erebia discoidalis, should be epipsodea; a lapsus on my part.
P. 218, No. 14. Should be Ahtanum Creek.
P. 219. Caption for map should read "Numbers 1-24."
P. 221. 14. Euchloe creusa. Paul Opler, University of California, Berkeley, tells me that this species is E. hyantis lotta (Beut.). This new combination is established by him (Opler, 1966). Typical creusa is a subarctic species which may not occur in the United States, exclusive of Alaska. E. h. lotta flies to some extent with ausonides, but is more likely to be found on the open sagebrush desert where annual crucifers grow.
P. 223. 42. Chlosyne hoffmanni manchada. The foodplant has been found to be Aster conspicuus Lindl. The early stages are described elsewhere (Newcomer, 1967).
P. 228, line 2. Euphydryas anicia.
Literature Cited
Newcomer, E. S., 1964. Butterflies of Yakima County, Washington. Jour. Lepid.
Soc, 18: 217-228. 1967. Early stages of Chlosyne hoffmanni manchada (Nymphalidae). Jour.
Lepid. Soc, 20: in press. Opler, P. A., 1966. Studies on the Nearctic Euchloe. Jour. Res. Lepid., in press.
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Correction
McElvare, R. R., 1966. New Heiliothid moth from the southwestern United States. Jour. Lepid. Soc, 20(2):91-94. The date given for the holotype of Grotella hlanchardi on page 93, September 17, 1963 is correct; that given in the explanation of the plate on page 92 (September 9, 1963) is in error.—Roland R. McElvare, Southern Vines, North Carolina.
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