A. P. Morse.
Some Rarities from Essex County, Mass.
Psyche 32(6):298, 1925.

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Psyche
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Eurema euterpe (MMtries) .
Manchester : Field west of Proctor street, September 4, 1924, two (A. B. J. C.). Blossom Lane, September 5, 1924, two (A. B. J. 0.).
Essex: Bog off Conomo street, August 10, 1924, one fresh male (A. B. J. C.); July 30, 1925, one fresh male (A. B. J. C.). Ipswich: about a quarter of a mile east of the lighthouse, August 25, 1925, one fresh female (A. H. C.). This insect is probably less infrequent in Essex county than the records would seem to indicate as it is very easily confused with Eurymus philodice. In calm weather it is readily distin- guished by its slower, feebler, lower, and more tortuous flight, but if there is any wind the differences tend to vanish. Although I am very familiar with this species I mistook the one captured at Ipswich for its larger and more powerful relative until it alighted on a beach pea immediately in front of me. SOME RARITIES FROM ESSEX COUNTY, MASS.
Peabody Museum, Salem, Mass.
Several years ago I recorded (PSYCHE, vol. 28, p. 7,-1921) the capture of three examples of a dragonfly, Sympetrum corrup- urn, rare in Massachusetts, at Plum Island, Ipswich, Sept. 10, 1911.
On July 11, 1924, it was a common and conspicuous insect at a small pond in Marblehead, a dozen or more individuals being seen, of which four males and a female were secured. Another rarity in eastern Massachusetts, the butterfly Chry- sophanus thoe, believed to be the first example recorded from the county, was taken Sept. 6, 1924, at Salisbury, Mass.1 This was a female in perfect condition, and was found on goldenrod flowers at the edge of the saltmarsh. A male also was seen but not secured.
"See this issue of Psyche, p. 295. [Editor.]



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