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Volume 25, Number 2
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ADDITIONAL RECORDS OF PATRICIA DEMYLUS GEMELLUS FOX (ITHOMIIDAE)
Patricia demylus gemellus Fox was described (1960, Jour. New York Ent. Soc. 68: 152-156) from only three known specimens (two in the British Museum and one in the Museum of Comparative Zoology), all males, and all from Bolivia.
I have obtained eleven additional specimens in consignments from Franz Stein-bach of Cochabamba, Bolivia. The first eight of these (including four males and two females from El Limbo, Prov. Chapare, Cochabamba, Bolivia, 2,200 meters and two males from Alto Palmer, Prov. Chapare, Cochabamba, Bolivia, 1,100 meters) were determined and examined by Richard M. Fox before his death in 1968. He stated that they were the only known specimens outside of the type series and contained the only known females.
In 1967 I received three additional specimens: a female from Cristal Mayu, Prov. Chapare, Cochabamba, Bolivia, 600 meters (the lowest known elevation) and two males from El Limbo, Prov. Chapare, Cochabamba, Bolivia, 2,200 meters, March 1967 (the only known specimens with collecting dates).
The genus Patricia Fox is better known as Athesis Kirby following usage in Seitz (1910, Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde, vol. 5). Fox considers Athesis monotypic, containing only clearista Doubleday & Hewitson; with dercyllidas and allies, including demylus, being removed to Patricia. The genus consists of three very rare species with Andean distribution in Colombia, Peru, Ecuador and (demyllus only) Bolivia.
I have placed a pair of my specimens in the Carnegie Museum collection in Pittsburgh, and two males in the collection of Herman Real at San Mateo, California. The remainder, for the present time, are retained in my personal collection.
John H. Masters, Lemon Street North, North Hudson, Wisconsin.
FIRST RECORDS OF BOLORIA EUNOMIA (NYMPHALIDAE) IN WISCONSIN
The first record of Boloria eunomia (Esper) was incorrectly reported by me in the News of the Lepidopterists' Society (Number 3, 1969). The correct data for this record, consisting of two males and one female, is 23 June 1968, in a bog along highway 111 between Catawba and Phillips, Price County, Wisconsin—instead of, as originally reported, Rusk County, Wisconsin.
1970 collecting yielded some additional Wisconsin localities for Boloria eunomia. Fay Karpuleon, of Eau Claire, collected a short series in a bog near Cornell, Chippewa County on 5 June 1970 and added additional specimens during the following week; this is the southernmost locale where this species has been taken in North America east of the Rockies. On 14 June, I joined him and we collected additional specimens (still fresh) in the bog at Cornell, but attempts to locate specimens in bogs further north were unsuccessful. On 27 June 1970, I secured a few specimens in three bogs between Toni and Big Falls Flowage in Rusk County and in a bog along highway M in extreme southeastern Sawyer County, all of which were somewhat flown. Later the same day, I collected a very worn female in the Cornell bog in Chippewa County, thus documenting a flight season of at least 22 days for the species at this particular locality in 1970. The flight season for Boloria eunomia is usually regarded as quite short (e.g. Gray, 1965, J. Lepid. Soc. 19: 184-185).
The range of Boloria eunomia is probably more extensive in Wisconsin than these scant records indicate. I have found, in Minnesota, that it is one of the more widespread, bog-restricted butterflies, and I expect that it occurs throughout northern Wisconsin in sphagnum bogs. The Wisconsin population of Boloria eunomia belongs to the subspecies dawsoni (Barnes & McDunnough).
John H. Masters, Lemon Street North, North Hudson, Wisconsin.