CDntents Volume 42, No.2 Summer 2000

The Lepidopterists' Society is a non-profit Using the Antibiotic Cipro to Reduce Disease in educational and scientific organization. The Saturniidae. Robert D. Weast 40 object of the Society, which was formed in MONA is 30 Years Old in 2000. Eric Metzler 41 May 1947 and formally constituted in De­ Classic Collecting Campaigns: Greer, Arizona. Kelly Richers 42 cember 1950, is "to promote internationally Metamorphosis 43 the science of lepidopterology in all its So, You want to be a Chionodes Expert John A. De Benedictis 44 branches; to further the scientifically sound and progressive study of Lepidoptera, to is­ A Journey to Nabokov's Karner, New York: sue periodicals and other publications on a conservation dilemma. Kurt Johnson 45 Lepidoptera; Jo facilitate the exchange of Notice: DeVries and Penz Join Milwaukee Public Museum .47 specimens and ideas by both the professional The Lepidopterists' Bookshelf. M. Alma Solis 48 worker and theamateurin the field; to com­ Review: The Butterflies and Moths of Kentucky 48 pile and distribute information to other or­ Review: The Garden is In, The Plants are Up 50 ganizations and individuals for purposes of Recently Published Books 51 education andconservation and appreciation Notice: Group Photos from 1999 Annual Meeting 50 of Lepidoptera; and to secure cooperation in Membership Update. Julian Donahue 52 all measures" directed towards these aims. Out of the Net Jim Taylor 54 (Article II, Constitution of The Lepidopter­ Announcement: Carolina Tips free for the asking 55 ists' Society.) From the Editor's Desk Phil Schappert 55 The NewsoftheLepidopterists' Society The Marketplace 56 (ISSN 0091-1348) is published quarterly by Notice: New Membership Directory Alert 58 The Lepidopterists' Society,c/o Los Angeles Notice: The Taxonomic Report: recent issue titles 58 County Museum of Natural History, 900 Ex­ Nabokov's Butterflies: special book offer to Members 59 position Blvd., LosAngeles, CA90007-4057, USA.: ari:d includes one or two supplements Notice: "Save Money, Don 't Send Me the Journal!" 59 each ye'~~: The Season Summary is pub­ Announcement: Moths of Western North America 59 lished every year as Supplement S1 and is "A Certain Spot in the Forest." Part 1 of 2. Paul Manton 60 mailed with issue 1oftheNews.In even num­ Backpages: beredyears a completeMembershipDirec­ Membership Information, Dues Rates, Journal of the tory is published as Supplement S2 and is Lepidopterists' Society, Change of Address?, Our Mailing mailed with issue 4 of that volume of the List?, Missed or Defective Issue?, Book Reviews, News. Please see the inside front cover for Submission Guidelines for the News 62 instructions regarding subscriptions, sub­ Executive Council 63 missions to, and deadline dates for,the News. Season Summary Zone Coordinators 63 Periodicals Postage Pending ataddress above Issue Date: June 15, 2000 ISSN 0091-1348 (Los Angeles, CA) and at additional mailing,; office (Lawrence, KS). . .:j POSTMASTER: Please send address changes to News ofthe Lepidopterists' Society, c/o Los Angeles County Museum ofNatural History, 900 Exposition Blvd.,Los Angeles, CA90007-4057. Cover: A bountiful harvest of Eupackardia calleta coccoons reared using the Copyright © 2000 by The Lepidopterists' S0­ antibiotic cipro. Photo by Bob Weast. See his article on pp. 40 of this issue. ciety.All rights reserved. The statements of contributors donot necessarily representthe views of the Society or the editor and the:' Society does not '>."~~tpr ndorse prod­ ucts or servic~s:g!~di~ . x::: ! ~& Summer 2000 News of the Lepidopterists' Society Mailbag•••

What's in a Name? the next issue as we are well ahead of first issue ofeach volume-is fierce and, your 11 February 2000 deadline. unfortunately, there was no space for Dear Editor, We did take some exception to your edi­ your submission. You'll find the titles I ask for your kind indulgence in assist­ t orial note in News 41(2) where you for recent TTR papers-we do not, as a ing me with a riddle whose solution has stated that TTR was, at that time, not general rule, publish abstracts-else­ escaped me . I have obtained your e-mail a refereed publication. That was untrue where in this issue. I stand corrected on address from your web-site concerning, as TTR 1(5) and 1(6) were peer-re­ your peer review process but would among other things, the lovely Vanessa. viewed. If you had said that it was a strongly suggest that you formalize your It is on behalf of, or perhaps, on behest partially refereed publication you would peer review process (and publish a list of the lovely Vanessa that I write. How­ have been accurate. TTR 1(9) was also ofreviewers at set intervals) in order to ever, my Vanes sa is neither nymph nor peer-reviewed. attain the status for TTR that you de­ painted lady, she is the love of my life. sire. - Ed. ) As a gift, I once presented her with a As you know, peer review is not a crite­ copy of the Swift poem Cadenus and rion of the ICZN validation process. Vanessa and an accompanying explana­ Thus, in those cases where submitted articles are by established experts in a tion of the derivation of her namesake's Pitcher Plant Moths1 sobriquet. Her curiosity was piqued. certain area, we may often not solicit review. This was the case with TTR Dear Editor, Knowing my affection for the work of 2(1) where Dr. Kurt Johnson is the Vladimir Nabokov, and, having flipped I would like to know if there are any world's top expert in the area of Elfin through a few of my copies from his moths known to mature within pitcher butterflies. In areas where we do not canon, she asked me why Nabokov so plant leaves, or if there are any adult know the individual's work or status often used the word "vanessa " as a moths that are, for some reason other we require them to submit review let­ metaphor for "butterfly" in his work. I than ovipositing, found on the inner ters or we will send the submitted re­ set to work to trace the link. My efforts surface of pitcher plant leaves. If you search to one of several experts who have led me to your web portal and I are not the right source for this ques­ have offered their services as TTR re­ was hoping that you could tell me how, tion, could you kindly pass along the viewers. We consider TTR a peer-re­ or why, or by whose labeling, the this­ e-mail of a colleague who might help viewed publication because we require tle butterflies have taken on "vanessa" me? Thanks for any assistance you can that whenever it is called for. However, as the moniker of their genus. I thank provide. others may (accu rat ely) consider it a you in advance for any assistance you partially peer-reviewed publication, Zack Lemann might offer. however, no one can proclaim it a non­ Audubon Zoo Tim Goldhawk peer-reviewed publication because that New Orleans, LA 70118 [email protected] is untrue. [email protected] (My curiousity, too, is piqued. Anyone We appreciate your continued coopera­ (Anyone know of any? - Ed.) have an answer to this? - Ed.) tion in getting the word out to your members of the important taxonomic works we have published. Ronald R. Gatrelle, Season Summary Corrections President The Taxonomic Report Dear Editor, The International Lepidoptera Survey, Dear Editor, Please run the following correction to 126 Wells Road, the recent "1999 Season Summary." I am enclosing a short update on our Goose Creek, SC 29445 publication, The Taxonomic Report (As I'm sure you'll understand, compe- Zone 8, Midwest, Michigan, Butterflies (TTR). These follow those published in News 41(2 ): 53. I trust this will make tition for space in the color issue-the Continued on pp. 41

Volume 42, Number 2 39 News of the Lepidopterists' Society Volume 42, Number 2 Using The Antibiotic Cipro to Reduce Disease in Saturniidae Robert D. Weast 5324 NW 78 Court, Johnston, Iowa 50131

Ifyou have experienced disease while Eupackardia calleta (West wood) and stock tcalleta, forbesi and hybrids) died rearing larvae you might consider us­ Rothschildia lebeau forbesi (Benjamin) within their cocoons, either as larvae ing the antibiotic cipro (ciprofloxacine) were the two species used in the trial. or pupae. This is a fairly common mor­ as a preventative measure. I tested the Untreated control groups experienced tality rate among Saturniidae, perhaps effectiveness of this drug in two sepa­ severe mortality whereas treated it is caused by a virus? By using cipro I rate trials and have had very promis­ groups manifested minimal disease. I was able to rear larvae at high densi­ ing results. reared 220 calleta and 440 forbesi. ties, but in fourth and fifth instars the In the News of the Lepidopterists' This present study is a follow-up of that sleeves had to be moved daily to new Society, Vol. 38, No .6, October-De­ work. In 1999 I treated both species with branches of the host. Sleeves swarming cember 1996, p. 219, I cited the work of cipro, combining a crushed 250 mg tab­ with large larvae devour enormous those who had used various antibiotics let with 7 ounces of water. I sprayed the amounts of foliage. I recommend the to combat disease of lepidopterous lar­ leaves and larvae each time the sleeves use of cipro for those breeders who ex­ vae (q.v. References). [Note: The bulk of were moved to new foliage. I omitted perience disease among their stock. It the references for that article were in­ using ceftin. Again, the results were is easy to apply and well worth the ef­ advertently omitted from that issue, see outstanding. I reared 250 calleta, 150 fort and expense. the end ofthis article for a complete list forbesi and 90 Rothschildia cincta x References of th e missing references-Ed.] I re­ forbesi. There was no apparent mortal­ Finlayson, L. H., and V. A. Walters. 1957. Ab­ searched pharmaceutical literature and ity except for the few inevitable acci­ normal metamorphosis in saturniid moths found that cipro was listed as a power­ dents and the usual stinkbugs that took infected by a microsporidian. Nature, 1980, ful wide-spectrum antibiotic that at­ a small number. A control group of 713-714 . tacked the precise diseases identified by about 200 calleta larvae that were not Pet ers, D., and G. B. Staal. 1969. Virus-like particles from Hyalophora cecropia larvae these researchers. Ceflin (ceftiroxime) given cipro experienced 100% mortality succumbing from an intestinal disea se. J. was indicated for a single pathogen un­ before reaching the third instar. A simi­ In vertebrate Pathology 11: 330-2. affected by cipro . Briefly, I crushed tab­ lar untreated group of forbesi exhibited Priddle, T., 1966. Techniques for reducing mor­ lets of 250 mg of cipro and 250 mg of disease and all but 24 died. These lar­ tality when rearing larvae of the cecropia moth (Saturniidae). J. Lepidoptera Society ceftin and mixed these with 8 ounces of vae appeared undernourished and pro­ 2020: 119-20. water. The upper and undersurfaces of duced small cocoons. Larvae treated Riddiford , L. M. 1967. Antibiotics in the labo­ host plant leaves as well as the larvae with cipro appeared healthy, grew rap­ ratory-rearing of cecropia silkworms. Sci­ were sprayed with this mixture. idly and were apparently free of disease. ence 157: 1451-2. Splittstoesser, C. M., and F. L. McEwen. 1968. Fifty percent of the A microsporidian, Thelophania spp . patho­ pupae were of aver­ genic for the cabbage looper, Tri choplusia age size, 25% were ni (Huber). J. Invertebrate Pathology 9: 26­ large and 25 % 29. Taschenberg, E. F., and W. L. Roelofs. 1970. were small. Large-scale rearing of cecropia (Lepidoptera: The 90 hybrids of Saturniidae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America 63: 107-111. cincta x forbes i Teffer, W H. 1967. Cecropia. Pp. 173-182, in: F. were medium to W Wilt and N. K. Wessells (ed.) , Methods in large in size. Five Developmental Biology. Crowell Co., New of these continued york. Walters, V. A., 1958. Structure, hatching and to feed an extra size variation of the spores in a species of week and became No sema (micr ospor idial found in enormous, spin­ Hyalophora cecropia (lepidoptera) . Parasi­ ning huge co­ tology 48, 113-149. coons. About 5% Roth schildia cincta x forbesi larvae reared at high density using Cipro. of all of the treated Photo by Bob Weast.

40 Summer 2000 Summer 2000 News of the Lepidopterists' Society MONA is JO Years Old in 2000

Eric H. Metzler, Secretary The Wedge Entomological Research Foundation 1241 Kildale Sq . N , Columbus Ohio 43229-1306

In September 1970, Richard B. in Holland was limited, and nearly all Catocala (Noctuidae), The Wedge Ento­ Dominick and Charles R. Edwards species of smaller moths could not be mological Research Foundation is ac­ drafted the introduction to the first fas­ identified with this, the only guide to tively searching for competent authors cicle of the venerable Moths ofAmerica moths in North America. of monographs for the series. In addi­ North ofMexico series of publications. The idea for MONA needed time to de­ tion, the board of directors of the foun­ Affectionately known as MONA, that velop, and eventually a nucleus of peo­ dation desires to publish suitable mono­ first monograph, Fascicle 21 Sphin­ ple including R. B. Dominick, C. R. graphs beyond the scope of the MONA goidea, Hawkmoths, by Ronald W. Edwards, D. C. Ferguson, J . G. series. Interested authors should con­ Hodges began an ambitious publication Franclemont, R. W. Hodges, E. R. tact the Foundation at: The Wedge En­ project that successfully continues to Hodges, E . G. Munroe, E. W. Classey, tomological Research Foundation, document that portion of the lepidop­ B. Harley and others joined their 85253 Ridgetop Drive, Eugene, Oregon teran fauna, known as moths, of the knowledge, enthusiasm, and tenacity to 97405- 9535 , USA. Nearctic Region plus Greenland. publish the first MONA fascicle. Five The Wedge Entomological Research In 30 years of publication, the MONA years after the first monograph was Foundation gratefully thanks its sub­ series has documented the occurrence published, a public non-profit founda­ scribers, its supporters, the persons of 2,381 species from the region. Three tion, the Wedge Entomological Research who provide data and energy to assist hundred thirteen species and 23 subspe­ Foundation, named in honor of the authors, and the users of the mono­ cies were described as new to science in Dominick's home in South Carolina, graphs. Were there not a need, the the series. Larger showy and popular was formed to continue the vision of project could not be sustained. Were moths such as the sphinx moths and Richard Dominick, who unexpectedly there not an interest and dedication of giant silk worm moths are included as died after just a few years and after moth collectors, the project would be well as some of the smallest moths, the only a few monographs were published. impeded. Completion of the preliminary Cosmopterigidae. Now in its 26 t h year, the foundation survey remains a major goal. In its conception MONA was meant to continues to publish the highly ac­ For further information contact: be an authoritative replacement for the claimed series. The Entomological So­ Dr. Ronald W. Hodges, Managing Direc­ long out of date W. J. Holland's The ciety of America awarded Ronald W. tor, The Wedge Entomological Research Moth Book, originally published in Hodges its prestigious Thomas Say Foundation, 85253 Ridgetop Drive, 1903 and reprinted in 1968 by Dover. Award in 1990 for his leadership with Eugene, Oregon 97405-9535, (541) 684­ The highly popular and, until 1968, the MONA series. Published reviews of 0484, [email protected], or much sought after Holland provided the monographs in the MONA series myself at (614) 888-3642 or spruance some color illustrations, brief annota­ have been highly complimentary. @infinet.com . tions about the species, and briefer taxo­ Upcoming fascicles include the the tribe nomic notes. Yet the number of species Macariini (Geometridae) and the genus Inseetes Mondiaux Mailbox...cont'd from pp. 39 I want the members to know of these Hesperiidae unfortunate errors (a lapse on my part), especially my fellow MI lepidopterists! Euphyes dukesi: Cass should read (P roof reading of the data, and yet... !) Lenawee www.insect-trade.com Mogens C. Nielsen, Pieridae 3415 Overlea Dr., 271, Leo-T.-Julien Nathalis iole: Gogebis: Hiawatha NF Charlesbourg, Quebec Lansing, MI 48917 Canada G1H 7B1 should read Gogebic: Ottawa NF tel: (418) 841-3587 / fax: (418) 841-2024 [email protected]

Volume 42, Number 2 41 News of the Lepidopterists' Society Volume 42, Number 2 Classic Collecting Campaigns: Greer, Arizona

Kelly R ichers 9417 Carvalho Ct., Bakersfield, CA 93311

This article begins a series of descrip­ lecting with me as I flail around) sug­ have no idea how anyone ever found the tions of places that you may have heard gested a trip to Greer in 1997, I imme­ Apache tribes in that maze of turns, about but never seen, or if you have diately accepted. We have learned to twists, and forest. Yes, forest. The en­ seen them, perhaps some memories travel the desert, so we left his place at tire road from Show Low to the Greer might be stirred. Any collectors I have 1:00 in the morning to drive from Los turnoff is dense pine forest, except for ever met have always been on the look­ Angeles to Phoenix before the heat got the houses and casinos along the way, out for new spots. So, beginning with us . Our trip was the first week in Au­ as you climb from 3000' to over 8000' Powell's Law of Distance (the collect­ gust, which is ideal for Greer. The same elevation. Before getting to that, how­ ing is always better the farther away winds that blow moisture up from ever, you are introduced to Rt. 60 , you go), the first of several classic lo­ Mexico to the Madera Canyon, which must follow an old mule deer cations will be in Arizona, generally Chiricahua Mountains and Garden path. A mule deer path of crazed mule considered a long way away from most Canyon area in Arizona also blow deer, at that. For instance, to cross the everyone. In the next several issues I storms to the more northern Greer area. Salt River, you drop over 1000 feet to hope to describe a little about Greer, These rains arrive at the end of July get to the bridge and immediately climb Madera Canyon, Pena Blanca and On­ and beginning of August, and are called out another 1000 feet on the other side, ion Saddle. When the ar t icles about Chubasco winds by people who have behind trucks loaded with lead weights, these are completed we will head to several beers in them and want to im­ apparently. Or maybe salt. other areas. press other people . If a person reads the fascicles of the Remember the Moths of America North of Mexico, travel guides that several place names reoccur with regu­ say "such and such larity. One of the mysterious places of is easily reached which I had heard was Greer, which by such and such was apparently located somewhere in a road"? Greer is the White Mountains of Arizona. Hav­ not one of those ing lived in California for about 15 years places. Greer is after having lived in Pennsylvania for not easily reached at least that many, I was familiar with by anything, save the White Mountains east of Bishop, possibly para­ California, but not the White Moun­ chute. After leav­ tains of Arizona. ing Phoenix, one is On the other hand, anyone who has faced with a choice driven Interstate 10 through Arizona of how to get to A typical cabin along the Li ttle Colorado River (a stream by th is Greer. No roads go point) with excellent collecting within feet of the cabin. Photo by Kelly from New Mexico knows that it is all R ichers. barren waste anyway, so Greer couldn't there in any kind be that exciting, even if it could be of a direct line, so you can drive around By the time you get to the turnoff to found, which would be a trick as it does it from the south and hook back in like Greer, Rt. 373, you are ready for it. The not show up on most normal maps. a fishhook from Alpine, going north on forest and open fields have whetted Being a moth collector, however, I have Rt 180 from 1-10 to Springerville and your appetite for more, and down that a number of abnormal maps, of course, west on Rt 260 to Rt 373, which is the little road several tributaries of the Lit­ so I found it , tucked away by the New short road to Greer. That is a long drive, tle Colorado River begin their wander­ Mexico border north of Alpine and east and on a map, it looks like a much ing life. Trout fishermen can be seen of Show Low, in the midst of Apache Co. shorter drive if you drive to Globe, occasionally, and the little community north to Show Low and east on Rt . 73 of Greer is nothing more than a number When Ron Leuschner (an old hand at to Rt . 260 . That is the route we took, of cabins lining the road. Fritillary moth collecting who humors me by col- and afterwards all I can say is that I Continued on next page...

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Greer...cont'd from previous page butterflies dart among the trees, and other butterflies can be seen in t he Metamorphosis••• meadows lining the stream. Right up until it rains. Which, I might add, it does with astonishing regularity in that area in early August. Cabins can be rented at Road's End (Tr ails End Cabins, P. O. Box 224, Ralph Macy, scientist and author, dies at 94 Greer, AZ 85927, (520) 735-7513), and the cabin we rented turned out to be (From an obituary that appeared in Th e Oregonian, Monday November 22, 1999). beautifully situated on the banks of the stream with ample room for several more than the two of us. Although the Ralph W. Macy, a prominent Portland was named the college's alumnus of the afternoon was getting on toward 3:00 scientist, educator and author of But­ year in 1985. p.m. when we arrived, there were but­ terflies of the Northeastern States, A prolific writer, he was the author of terflies in several areas where the road died Nov. 17, 1999, at age 94. A memo­ three books, including Wooden crossed the stream, where vegetation rial service was held on Tuesday, Nov. Sidewalks, which recountsed his expe­ grew thickly. 23, in Hillside Manor in McMinnville, riences coming of age in McMinnville nd Later that evening, August 2 , we set Oregon. th during the first part of the 20 century. up two sheets for collecting moths just Dr. Macy was born July 6, 1905, in Dr. Macy served in many professional beyond where the paved road ends. The McMinnville. A graduate of McMinn­ leadership positions, including terms as stream is less than 100 feet from the ville High School and Linfield College, president of the Pacific Division of the road at that point, and with the appear­ he received a master's degree and two Society of Systematic Zoology, the ance of the ghost moths the evening doctoral degrees from the University of American Academy of Science and the began. Virtually every moth from that Minnesota. He began his career as a Oregon Entomological Society. area was new to my collection, and the parasitologist with Champion Animal He was a charter member of The Lepi­ collecting lived up to its reputation as Food Co. and also taught zoology at the dopterists' Society, a charter Fellow of a notable area. University of Minnesota and the Col­ the American Academy of Microbiology, lege of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minn. The next day it rained. This is not an a trustee of the Northwest Scientific unusual circumstance for the area, and From 1942 until 1955, he was a profes­ Association, and served on the board of the day can often be saved by driving sor at Reed College and served as chair trustees for OMSI. The Oregon Acad­ over the ridge toward Alpine, a long of the college's biology department. He emy of Science presented him with a hour of driving for the possibility of was also in charge of medical parasitol­ citation for outstanding services to the some sun. Often there is none there ei­ ogy at the University of Oregon Medi­ state of Oregon. He was a member of ther, as we discovered. The collecting cal School for several years. First Presbyterian Church of that evening after the slight cold front In 1955, he became a professor of biol­ McMinnville. He married Laura Lee moved through was completely differ­ ogy at Portland State University and Smith in 1981. ent from the night before, and in many later was department chairman. He He is survived by his wife; sister, Flor­ ways better. The cabin was comfort­ retired as professor emeritus in 1972. ence Foster of King City; two grandchil­ able, the atmosphere relaxing, and the Dr. Macy worked on medical research dren; and two great-grandchildren. His collecting excellent. projects in Finland, Egypt and Portu­ first wife, Ruby "Billie", and daughter, Greer is located about 15 miles south­ gal and served as a chief investigator Charlotte Asburry, died earlier. west of Springerville, at an elevation of in the field of parasitology for numer­ Interment was at Evergreen Memorial roughly 8440 '. Collecting is easy along ous studies with several grants author­ Park in McMinnville. The family sug­ the Little Colorado River, which crosses ized by the U.S. government. He was gested remembrances to Friends of the the road in several places, and moth awarded an honorary doctor of science Library in care of Macy & Son Funeral collecting is excellent at the end of the degree by Linfield College in 1980 and Directors in McMinnville. paved road, at an elevation of about 8480'. However, success can be achieved by merely hanging a sheet from a rented cabin.

Volume 42, Number 2 43 News of the Lepidopterists' Society Volume 42, Number 2 $0, You Want to be a Chionodes EXDert (or how to get your money's worth out of the latest MONA fascicle)

John A. De Benedictis Department ofEntomology, Universi ty of California, Davis, CA 95616

Shortly after the release of the latest With scales covering the base of the ter, ethanol, cellusolve, clorazole black fascicle of The Moths ofAmerica North haustellum and with an attenuated tip E stain, methyl salicylate, glycerine, of Mexico, Hodges' (1999) revision of of the hindwing, Gelechiidae is perhaps xylene, and Canada balsam (maybe Chionodes, I overheard a fellow lepidop­ the most easily recognized family of $200 more). terist remark derisively that he 'd paid microlepidoptera. Chionodes is the ge­ You must use a binocular dissecting $100 for 300 color ph otos of the same nus that superficially looks just like scope. Originally, I tried to avoid this little brown moth. This confirmed my Aroga and Filatima and like all those expense by enrolling in junior college suspicion that some people treat MONA photographs in Hodges. Busck's (1939) and cajoling a biology instructor into monographs as collectibles. After glanc­ "Reconsideration of the genus letting me use a scope to learn to dis­ ing at t he pictures a few times, they Gelechia" is a good article to start sect Lepidoptera genitalia for research stash their purchases away to languish learning to recognize the genera allied credit. However, this evolved into a on bookshelves unread and gathering to and including Chionodes. Maybe $5 career change costing thousands of dust. or so from a used natural history book dollars for schooling, and eventually I Granted, you may not be able to iden­ dealer, if you can find a copy. bought a scope for home use anyway. I tify many Chionodes species by compar­ You should probably spread your speci­ picked up a used scope with zoom on ing your specimens to the photos, but mens or at least fluff out their wings to campus for $425, but you can probably for me the monograph was eagerly see the key taxonomic characters on the find a marginally adequate one with 2 awaited. I've already used it more than hindwings. At a nickel a pin and with or 3 fixed-focus objectives for $200 or any other volume in the MONA series. the cost of additional spreading mate­ so. I've not yet invested in a fiber op­ This article may help those of you who rials, figure at least two bits per moth. tics illuminator (about $400), but my are ready to take the plunge into the To use the Chionodes ke ys, careful gooseneck desk lamp ($10) gets in the largely uncharted waters of microlepi­ genitalic dissections are essential. Plan way, so that's next. dopterology to get some real use out of on spending at least $45 for two pair of Before sacrificing your Chionodes, get the monograph for a few hundred dol­ quality fine tipped forceps. If you want lots of experience on other species to lars more than what you've already crisp edges on the abdominal pelt, use refine your technique. Don't start with spent on the book. a pair of fine surgical scissors ($175 to anything too small. They are hard to First, collect some Chionodes . You can $450) to cut carefully along the manipulate and it's difficult to recog­ collect small caterpillars on various pleuron. However, you've already mu­ nize the internal anatomy. Nor start plants, rear them, and hope that they'll tilated your perfect specimen by remov­ with anything too large. It takes far too turn out to be Chionodes, but the fast­ ing the abdomen, so ignore the ragged long to soften the abdomens in caustic est way to accumulate specimens is to edges and spare the expense by using and there are gobs of disgusting par­ run a UV or mercury vapor light ($20 your forceps to tear open the side of the tially rendered visceral material to deal to $200+) to attract adults. Offhand, I abdomen. Just be careful to preserve the with. Moderately small geometrids or can't think of any endangered species last two pre-genital segments. You'll large tortricids are good for starters. need them to key out your moths. that might fly to light, so you can prob­ Decide whether to retain your dissec­ ably collect every moth that comes in The dissection directions in Hodges are tions in genitalia vials ($30 for 100) or without fear of the law unless you are sketchy and inadequate. I devoted a few mount them on slides for about the trespassing or collecting where it's il­ months of trying out various proce­ same cost . I use vials more than slides. legal. Adults fly from spring through dures I picked up from the literature It saves a few steps, it 's easier to change fall in most of the country. I amassed and local experts before settling upon from vials to slides than vice versa, and 1V2 tightly packed Schmitt boxe s ($50 the methodology that works best for me. you can keep your preps with the per box) of adult Chionodes and related I use forcep s, a small L-shaped spatula, pinned specimen. The downside is that genera from my survey site in less than probes made from minutens, and slides, it's less convenient to re-examine prepa- 200 collection nights. This took 10 cover slips, vials, watch glasses and years, but you can do it much faster if other glassware (about $200 total). My Continued on page 53... you collect more often than I did. chemical arsenal includes NaOH, wa-

44 Summer 2000 Summer 2000 News of the Lepidopterists' Society A Journey to Naboko'!'s Karner, New York-a Conservation Dilemma

Kurt Johnson Environmental Department, The Ethical Culture Society, 53 Prospect Park West, Brooklyn, NY 11215

A recent date to speak about Nabokov's My host in Albany was Save the Pine Was I going back in time? blues in Albany, New York-the state's Bush (SPB), an activist organization John is not just an aficionado of Albany capital-afforded me a chance to visit that has been fighting for the preserva­ area history but a true expert on the what is left of old "Karner," New York. tion of samuelis's Pine Bush habitats changes that region has undergone in for more than two the last decades. His expertise, in fact, decades. I was met now seems to annoy some of the local at the Albany­ politicos because he has had a tendency Rensselaer over the years, in editors' letters and Amtrak station by other venues, to correct the errors in Lynne Jackson, many of their public statements con­ the current secre­ cerning "what used to stand where," tary of SPB-who "how old something is," and so on. was holding a copy Perhaps out of fear of embarrassment, of Nabokov's local politicians and press don't contact Blues in her hand John much anymore, a fact that caught so that I could eas­ me as somewhat reminiscent of ily recognize her. Nabokov's own isolation in the decades My comment to following his departure from Harvard her as I got off the University. Nabokov had had to stand train mirrored by, knowing quite well by the simplest what an old reli­ The former (wavy line) and current (shaded) extent of the Albany Pine of dissections that his Caribbean gen­ Barrens at Karner, NY. The central polygon is the Pine Bush gious superior of era Cyclargus and Hemiargus were two Commision's study area. Map drawn by John Wolcott, based on mine used to say very different groups of butterflies, research conducted by John Wolcott and Jerry Mueller. Drawn in about the Bible. I March, 1995. From the Save the Pine Bush website at www.wizvax.netl while the "experts" in charge of lynjaxISPB.html. said to Lynne, lepidoptery at the time continued to "You've been read­ lump them all back into Jacob Karner is the little hamlet that, in com­ ing that scary book?" Huebner's 1818 name Hemiargus, well mon parlance, has attached its name to Piling through about a foot of snow, int o the 1990's (and some still do to­ Nabokov's famous endangered species Lynne took me in her 4-wheel drive Geo dayl). Lycaeides melissa samuelis , the Tracker to meet John Wolcott, a Over the more than 20 years Save the "Karner Blue." Karner got the nod for founder and vice-president of SPB. Al­ samuelis's common name because Pine Bush has been working on behalf ready the experience was becoming of the Karner Blue, the nucleus of its Nabokov chose specimens of samuelis Nabokovesque (yes, a term recently from Karner for his type series (the somel000 members has welded into a coined among literati that seemed des­ community, if not a mutual support specimens he used to define his name tined to take its place alongside and are thus considered the definitive group, meeting as often as once a week. "Kafkaesque" in literary jargon). John Theirs has been a legacy of lawsuit af­ series by the modern taxonomic rules). Wolcott, in a rather strange Nabokovian My visit turned up some fascinating ter lawsuit, invoking the endangered mirror reflection, actually looks like a species status of Nabokov's L. trivia about Karner, Nabokov, and slightly gray and gnarled version of samuelis. But, along with the trivia, it samuelis to continually fight the never­ Cornell University's Robert Dirig (the ending attempts at commercial incur­ also turned up some pretty frightening long term student of Nabokov's legacy specters regarding the chances for the sion into the remaining areas of dwin­ at Cornell and author of several arti­ dling Pine Bush habitat. In their most Karner Blue's long-term survival in cles on Nabokov's butterflies, with New York . recent lawsuit, against expansion of the whom I had shot pieces for a documen­ Crossgates Mall (called "The Maul" by tary film on Nabokov for French SPB members), the Karner Blue itself Cineteve about two years ago) .

Volume 42, Number 2 45 News of the Lepidopterists' Society Volume 42, Number 2 was a plaintiff, along with Save the I met the present Executive Director of up lakebed of "Lake Albany" which Pine Bush. the Commission, Willie Janeway. With receded 10,000 years ago, after the the Save the Pine Bush is not exactly a a background from the Nature Con­ last Ice Age to form the sand dunes and popular organization in the Albany re­ servancy, Mr. Janeway, who introduces the Pine Bush. These ancient dunes af­ gion-an anathema to government himself simply as "Willie", seems quite forded the original habitat into which agencies and developers, yet a hero to aware of the precariousness of his po­ the pitch pines, lupine and the Karner other local activists. School children sition as the "in between" man amongst Blue eventually moved. and college students make up a large the developers on one side and the Save But the preserves are mostly sur­ part of its year-to-year cheering section. the Pine Bush activists on the other. rounded now by a 20th Century land­ The sad fact is that many residents of Willie, on cross-country skis, met us at scape of cement, steel and glass; the the state's capital couldn't care less the "Apollo Drive" Karner Blue site. remaining plots of pitch pine a weak about what a local judge recently called Originally, a developer proposed that a mosaic, unevenly forested, irregular, the "Blue Flies" that still survive go-cart/miniature golf course be built and disjunctive-a perilous situation among the scattered stands of pitch here. when trying to preserve what is essen­ This site is in be­ tially both a nomadic butterfly with a tween two sites of nomadic foodplant. Today, there are Karner Blues. even new enemies: domestic invader Though the site is plants from the citified areas nearby only 6 acres in that, previously in evolutionary history, size-probably the were never threats to Pine Bush habi­ smallest develop­ tat. Indeed, not only is the Karner Blue ment we ever sued disappearing, the pitch pine themselves over-it IS ex­ are disappearing as well. tremely impor­ Recent political changes have brought tant. Also, when in a more conservative judgeship. the developer SPB's directors comment that while it bought this site, it was relatively easy in the 1980's to win was 4 acres of as­ their cases on the merits alone, the phalt and 2 acres same merits today seldom bring victo­ of sand dunes. ries for Karner-the difference beingthe Save the Pine Bush political appointee background of the sued and the devel­ particularjudge. In the old days too, the The Pine Bush in the mist. Photo by Doug Morse. From the Save oper could not developers used to at least talk to mem­ The Pine Bush website at www.wizvax.net/lynjax/SPB.html build that first sea­ bers of SPB. Back then they considered son. Eventually, SPB members innocuous enough-lo­ pines in and around the city limits. the site was bought for Karner Blue cal hacks perhaps, troublemakers, Members of SPB joke that the "players" preserve. The developer agreed to re­ hippee throwbacks, or an annoying re­ in the fight to save or destroy the move the asphalt and the Commission gional version of Greenpeace. But, over Karner Blue haven't changed much has embarked on taking a parking lot the years, and after losing millions of over the years. Indeed, it's become a cast and making it into Karner Blue habi­ speculative dollars to SPB's pesky law­ of "the usual suspects", the same peo­ tat. I understand things are going fairly suits, the developers have lost their ple appearing in the court room year well. Willie has taken to calling this site cordiality and no longer speak to mem­ after year-the same conservationists, "bulldozing for butterflies". bers of the conservation group. Litiga­ the same developers, the same lawyers, In a space between the roads and a hill, tion is carried out under the formal but the same expert witnesses, and, until the Commission has bulldozed the land uneasy truce lines drawn by the court­ recently, the same judges. There is also in hopes of removing the invading spe­ rooms and court procedures, in which a more recent entry to the cast-offi­ cies and encouraging the return of the "usual cast" of characters meets cials of the state's "Albany Pine Bush Karner Blues. I think that's why Willie contentiously again and again. Actually, Preserve Commission," a quasi-govern­ wanted to meet us there-to show the developers still make money since, mental organization the New York state where the Commission is turning as­ eventually, if the land is purchased for government set up to handle the results phalt into Karner homeland (hope­ preserve, the of the never-ending lawsuits over Pine fully). Tracking through the foot or two State or The Nature Conservancy has Bush terrain and also handle the man­ of snow covering the site, Willie ex­ to spend way too much to buy it. The agement of those areas that have, after plained how the pine-covered dunes at developer still makes money from the protracted legal battles, been set aside. the preserve date back to the old dried-

46 Summer 2000 Summer 2000 News of the Lepidopterists' Society land sale, but is unable to proceed onto visit by train, is now part of a rickety trophies-the playing of the game be­ the really big bucks of a commercial or old storage building for what appears ing Dan's other love. I mentioned housing development, to be a junkyard or parking lot for Nabokov's enchantment with chess After 22 year s together, members of worn out heavy machinery. and Dan told me he "had heard about Save the Pine Bush have become like a Karner, New York, is as good as gone, that. " But what struck me was the par­ family- and, most do not have families and perhaps the Karner Blues at these allel of the chess trophies and the long of their own. The married members preserves may soon share its fate. Even saga of moves and countermoves (but explain that they could not both have Mr. Janeway, who might have reason far from a game) played by Save the Pine children and the time to carry on their to present a more glowing picture of the Bush for decades on behalfof Nabokov's day-to-day monitoring of the Karner situation on the preserve, estimated little Karner Blue. It remains unre­ solved who will ultimately win that Blue's situation. Some have lost their that last years number of adults butter­ jobs, directly or indirectly due to their flies was perhaps only 500. Save the match. advocacy for the Karner Blue. Conse­ Pine Bush members say that in Addendum: Dmitri Nabokov's Janu­ quently, some are now self-employed­ Nabokov's day the numbers must have ary 17, 2000 Statement on Karner Blue with clienteles for their businesses far been "millions". Conservation outside the Albany area-or retired. The Karner Blue in New York, and Save On the Occasion of Save the Pine But, resources or no, their work for the Pine Bush, are in constant need of Bush's January 26,2000 Program on Karner goes on. help. SPB members confided in me the book Nabokov's Blues and the fate In speaking of Karner, New York, in a they've often given up hope for the "big of the Karner Blue: "My father, New York Times review of Alexander donations" that might keep the coffers Vladimir Nabokov, made a point of not Klots ' famous butterfly fieldguide of the for their lawsuits at adequate capacity. being a joiner and trying not to be a 1950's, Nabokov wrote "I visit the place They now hope that a wider range of 'public figure'. He made an exception to every time I happen to drive (as I do smaller donations, even the 10's and this modus when it came to L. samuelis, yearly in early June) from Ithaca to 15 's of dollars, or the "singles and whose habitat was already endangered Boston and can report that, despite lo­ change" local high school student allies in hi s lifetime. I am certain he would cal picnickers and the hideous garbage raise yearly, may help them continue to have been shocked and eloquent in his they leave, the lupines and Lycaeides stem the tide of Pine Bush incursion. defense of what little remains of this samuelis Nab. are still doing as fine The address for Save the Pine Bush precious survivor's Pine Bush habi­ under those old gnarled pines along the donations [make checks to "Save the tats." railroad as they did ninety years ago". Pine Bush"] is Lucy Clark; Save the Dm itri Nabokov Little now remains of the landscape of Pine Bush, Treasurer; 2348 Cayuga Montreux, Switerland Karner, NY, that Nabokov remembered Road, Niskayuna, New York. In addi­ fondly in his notes. Even "Kar ner " tion, copies of the book Nabokov's seems an inappropriate name for his Blues, ordered by a letter to Lucy at the Notice beloved blue. Mr. Theodore Karner, the retail price ($27 .00) [make checks to founder of Karner, New York, was a Brooklyn Society for Ethical Culture developer himself and an old 19th Cen­ DeVries and Penz Join Environmental Affairs] net SPB 20% Milwaukee Public Museum tury map of the hamlet, pulled from profit; and a catchy Karner Blue car­ John Wolcott's pocket while we lunched toon, colored and framed by cartoonist Two outstanding lepidopterists, Dr. at a local diner, showed Mr. Karner's Thomas McAnany (yes, you've seen Philip J. DeVries and his wife, Dr. Carla plan for selling off all of Karner Blue him in the New Yorker magazine) and Penz, have joined the staff of the territory lot by lot. Luckily the plots did ordered by a letter to Lucy [make Milwaukee Public Museum. Coming not sell or L. samuelis would have been checks to Creative Services Corpora­ from faculty and research positions re­ extinct in New York long before tion, and, lower left write "Karner Blue spectively at The University of Oregon, Nabokov encountered it there. Cartoon"] at $30 .00 nets SPB 25%. If Phil heads up the Museum's new Today, only two old houses from the you have questions inquire of SPB at Center for Biodiversity Studies and original Karner village are left, sepa­ [email protected]. Carla joins the Museum's Zoology De­ rated by a grassed gap that used to be As I returned to Lynne and her hus­ partment as a curator. a street. The old railroad that Nabokov band Dan's home on the outskirts of Allen M. Young, fondly remembered is also gone, its only Albany (a frame house whose narrow Vice President of Collections, semblance beingan eroded embankment winding back stairs reminded me of my that used to hold up the tracks. The Research and Public Program and family's old farm house in Iowa) things Head, Zoology Department, railway station, where Nabokov would "Nabobovesque" set in once again. This have disembarked if he had come to Milwaukee Public Museum, time it was a cupboard filled with chess young@ mpm.edti

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The Lepidopterists' Bookshelf M. Alma Solis, Editor

The Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) of Kentucky: An Annotated Checklist

Anyoneknowingof by Charles van Orden Covell, Jr. ©1999. Softcover, 220 pages. Published by the Kentucky State ~a:ure . the publication of Preserves Commission, 801 Schenkel Ln., Frankfort, KY 40601-1403. $15.00 plus $2.00 shipping, newtitles ofbooks, $1.00 each additional book [make check payable to LEPBOOK]. ' ~~ d e o , or audio 'ili.pes of interest to lepidopterists, and This book is a t estament to In case you can't tell, I like this three different years are dis­ especially of books Charles van Orden Covell, Jr.'s book! cussed as records for two years). published outside relentless pursuit of knowledge Besides the impressive species Covell has kept up with most the United States, on the lepidopterous fauna of the are requested to distribution accounts, the book generic/specific name changes send full particu­ Commonwealth of Kentucky. As has some additional strengths. that have occurred in the nearly lars to the Book Paul Opler indicates in the pref­ In the introduction, Covell two decades since the publication Review Editor,The ace, this book probably does rep­ points out the importance of of the Hodges et al. (1983, Check Lepidopterists' resent the most complete check­ documenting species diversity in List of the Lepidoptera of Society, both for list published for any state in the specialized habitats so that the America North of Mexico announcement in U.S . For each species encoun­ this column and to habitats for species of interest (MONA), E. W Classey and The allow for timely tered up to 1999 in Kentucky, the may be preserved. This is Wedge Entomological Research review in the book indicates all counties, as re-emphasized in the section on Foundation, London, England.). Journal or News well as state parks and reserves, conservation, where knowing As examples, the Delaware Skip­ of The Lepidopter­ of known occurrence. For those ists'Society. the diversity of species may be per is appropriately placed in species that are represented by particularly important when Anatrytone, the eastern Eupi­ Publishers are in­ five or fewer records, all detailed habitat alteration may occur, thecia "herfordaria" is correctly vitedtosendreview collection information is in­ such as spraying for gypsy called matheri, and he has incor­ copies directly tothe cluded. Known dates of flight are BookReview Editor moths. His message is that col­ porated all of the appropriate fQr..consideration also given, earliest to latest in lecting and conservation are generic changes and species ad­ fb¥~review in the the year (t h ou gh for winter clearly compatible, if utilized in ditions from the MONA series, News or Journal. moths, this means that the dates an appropriate and responsible including Lafontaine's most re­ Members interested of the flight season are inter­ in reviewingbooks manner. The book has addi­ cent fascicle on the Noctuinae rupted). Additional remarks are tional sections on the history of (1998, The Moths of America forthe News or the included for many on abundance Journal should the study of Lepidoptera in Ken­ North of Mexico. Fascicle 27.3. send their requests and some other aspects of the tucky and the physiography of Noctuoidea: Noctuidae (par t) . or interests to: species. The book represents dec­ Kentucky. This gives the reader Noctuinae (part - Noctuini). The Dr. M. Alma Solis ades of work (by Charles and perspective on the kind of work Wedge Entomological Research Systematic many other people) to document that has been done in the state, Foundation, Washington, D.C.). ~ologyLab., the Lepidoptera of Kentucky, and as well as what still needs to be He did miss at least two generic/ clo ?National Covell should be commended for seum of done and what sections of the specific changes in the Limaco­ History, MRC 127, putting so much information state are the least known and didae, the Saddleback Caterpillar Washington, D.C. together into a single work. His may prove most fruitful in add­ Moth (stim ulea #4700) belongs 20560 ,(202) 382­ acknowledgment section is per­ ing additional species to the in Acharia, not Sibine (Becker 1785 (office), (202) haps the mo st complete I have 786-9422 (fax) state list. I had the good fortune and Miller, 1988, The identity of ever seen in any book, and lists of adding a species, Schinia Sphinx brunnus Cramer and the E-mail: asolis@ virtually anybody who has made (# 11199), to the Kentucky list taxonomic position of Acharia sel.barc.usda.goo contributions to any aspect of myself (though my records for Hubner (Lepidoptera: Limaco­ this monumental achievement. didae), Jour. Res. Lepid., 26: 219-

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224), and in t he No ctuidae, classification is fluid, and, as we distinct subspecies in the U.S , concinnimacula (# 9050) is now learn more, we should expect guantanamo in the Southeast included in Malliatha, not changes to occur. Species and and luteipicta in Texas. Lithacodia (Poole, 1989, Lepi­ species groups will be moved, In the remarks under Haploa dopterorum Catalogus. Fascicle and any associated numbering clymene (#8107) in the Arctiidae, 118: Noctuidae, Part 2. E . J . system should be changed to re­ he indicates that "females in this Brill/Flora and Fauna Publish­ flect current understanding of genus are entirely white and can ers, Leiden, the Netherlands). classification. This is my main, best be identified by association As for higher classification and only major, complaint with with males in the field. " This is changes, he is a bit more con­ the book. not correct for any of the species servative, though he does re­ I do have a few other specific in the genus, and never for place the noctuid subfamily comments about the book. He clymene (or colona)! Females can name Heliothinae with Helio­ indicates for several species that be, but are not necessarily, white thentinae (per Hardwick, 1996 , the Kentucky records represent for contigua and lecontei, the A Monograph to the North significant southward range ex­ other two species in the genus American Heliothentinae (Lepi­ tensions for the species indi­ recorded from Kentucky. And fi­ doptera: Noctuidae). Published cated; included here are the nally, in the remarks for by the author, Ottawa, Canada) crambid Metrea ostreonalis Orthodes goodelli (#10589.1) in without official ICZN recogni­ (# 4789) and the noctuids the Noctuidae, there is a state­ tion. Merolonche dollii (# 9277) and ment suggesting that "this spe­ He has correctly kept the Lithophane lepida (# 9925). All cies seems related to Orthodes Limacodidae and Epipyropidae three of these species have been cynica (# 10587), but is retained in the Zygaenoidea, unlike some collected and reported in Ala­ here until final placement is pub­ other recent treatments that bama and/or Georgia (Lepidop­ lished." This statement is confus­ move them to the Cossoidea. terists' Society Newsletter ing since it has been moved near However, he has also kept most Season Summaries), so these Orthodes cynica. What has hap­ of the rest of the higher classifi­ records for Kentucky are not so pened is that the species was of­ cation (superfamily, family, and surprising. He also indicates ficially moved (from Polia), subfamily) from Hodges (1983) that for the geometrid Idaea which Covell also indicates, but intact, even though our under­ celtima (# 7109), the one Ken­ his statement about retainingthe standing of certain groups has tucky record represents a sig­ species (in Polia ) wasn't removed changed dramatically. Indeed, nificant northern extension of before publication of the check­ Covell freely admits to not incor­ this species' range. I doubt that list. porating "some major rear­ one record is enough to consti­ Although I have picked apart rangements in the microlepi­ tute a range extension, but I some minutiae in my above com­ doptera" (pg. 11). To a lesser confess I've said similar things ments, overall the book is an extent, there are some changes when encountering new species outstanding compilation of a tre­ in the macrolepidoptera that he in Georgia! mendous amount of distribu­ also has not included. His rea­ In the butterfly section, he indi­ tional information on the lepi­ son? "To incorporate them here cates that the stray Large Or­ dopterous fauna of Kentucky. would make the numbering sys­ ange Sulphur (Phoebis agarithe The only other book I've seen tem of Hodges...hopelessly con­ #4231) is presumably subspecies that rivals the Kentucky check­ fusing. " Am I missing some­ maxima (fr om southeastern list in comprehensiveness is thing? A checklist should reflect, U.S.), though this Floridian sub­ Rings, et al. (1992, The Owlet as much as possible, our current species is not known to move Moths of Ohio: Order Lepidop­ understanding of classification large distances. It would seem tera, Family Noctuidae. Ohio of the group being treated, and perhaps more likely that this Biological Survey Bulletin, New to give a numbering system may represent the "Texas" sub­ Series Volume 9, Number 2.) , (which is just a convenience) species agarithe, which is which covers only noctuids (of priority over actual relationships known to stray significantly. He Ohio). Anyone with an interest is out of character with the care also indicates that for the White in the fauna of the Ohio Valley, taken with the rest of the book. Peacock (Anartia jatrophae the Mississippi Valley, the Appa­ Hodges'"checklist represented #4443) "the North American lachians, the Northeast, the our understanding of classifica­ subspecies is guantanamo" [my Southeast, or simply the eastern tion at the time, 1983," but a emphasis]; there are two very U.S. generally, will want a copy

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of Covell's Butterflies and Moths a monumental work." Though James K. Adams ofKentucky. As Paul Opler states there may be a few problems Dept. ofNatural Science and in the preface,"t h is checklist with certain aspects of the Math, Dalton State College, should serve as an example to higher classification of Lepidop­ 213 N College Drive, those who would contemplate tera in the book, the bar has Dalton, GA 30720 the effort needed to publish such been set. The Garden is In, The Plants are Up, Now Whatt Asked the Teachers. (Butterfly Garden Activities/ldeas/Tips for Teachers)

by Virginia Kincaid. ©1998. 44 pp., spiral bound. Available from Virginia Kincaid, 10112 East Lake Drive, Oklahoma City, OK 73162, (405)722-3837, [email protected]. Price $20.00, shipping and handling $2.25. Checks and money orders are acceptable. School purchases are welcome.

This handbook represents a com­ The handbook, a product of the that have been observed in the mitment by teachers of the butterfly garden, is divided into garden is also provided. Dennis Elementary School in several parts. The major part The text is easy to read with a Oklahoma City, Oklahoma to constitutes the activities section few spelling errors that do not build an "outdoor classroom" for where seasonal activities are detract from the quality of the the enjoyment and education of arranged according to the time work. I find this book an essen­ the student body and members of of the year that a given activity tial reference for teachers. I the community. The Dennis El­ can be favorably accomplished. highly recommend this book for ementary School Butterfly gar­ Maintenance activities include, teachers who want to move their den is a "model" ecosystem that planting times, mulch removal, students outside of the classroom teaches its users not only about and grooming. The planting of for purposes of enjoying the out­ natural beauty and interactions "special" plants like radishes, doors and to provide a "hands between plants and animals, but parsley, and dill , garden obser­ on" approach to learning about also about the fragility of the vations of other animals that the interactions between plants precious living t hings that in­ include insects and vertebrates, and animals in their natural set­ habit it and that their presence and a variety of games make up tings. Employing these activities should not be taken for granted, the remainder of the activities of to an already existing curricu­ but guarded for future genera­ this section. The games included lum will certainly enhance the tions. Consequently, the butter­ for elementary school children natural curiosity of the elemen­ fly garden is a tool that educates appear to be fun to play. In all, tary students that participate in about the fragility of life on our over 100 such activities are pro­ such programs. planet. vided. David Adamski Overshadowing the many The major part also includes awards organizers and keepers recipes. Over 15 recipes are Research Associate, of the Dennis Elementary School listed, each one easy to make Department ofEntomology, Butterfly Garden have received using suggested plants to be National Museum ofNatural are the many innovative pro­ grown in the butterfly garden. History, NHB-127, grams that have resulted from In conjunction with the recipes Smithsonian Institution, its existence. A butterfly club will section is a section called Washington, D.C. 20560. give guided tours of the garden "Recipe Book." Twenty-one Notice to interested school groups, gar­ plants that could be grown in a den clubs, senior citizen centers, butterfly garden are listed, and Group Photograph from and other community organiza­ information about specific me­ 1999 Annual Meeting tions. There even has been a dicinal qualities are provided for successful grassroots movement each plant. Finally, a map of the A few group photos from the Si­ to make the Black Swallowtail Dennis Elementary School But­ erra Vista meeting are still avail­ Butterfly the official state butter­ terfly Garden is provided with a able. Please send $5.00 check to fly of Oklahoma. list of the plant life. A checklist Mrs. Evi Buckner, P.O Box 2227, of the butterflies and skippers Loveland, CO 80539-2227.

50 Summer 2000 Summer 2000 News of the Lepidopterists' Society Recently Published Books

Nabokov's Butterflies: Nabakov and photographs of many have known, but none Unpublished and him in the field. The introduc­ have named as well as he: 'a momentary vacuum into which Uncollected Writings tion by Mr. Boyd highlights the role literature and Lepidoptera rushes all that I love.'" Edited and Annotated by Brian played in Nabokov's life, from The Art and Science of Boyd and Robert Michael Pyle, his boyhood in Russia where he New Translations from Russian caught his first butterfly at the Butterfly Photography by Dmitri Nabokov. ©2000. Bea­ age of seven to his years an an by William Folsom. ©2000. con Press, www.beacon.org. emigre in the Crimea, Berlin, Amherst Media, www. 800 pp., 30 color and 35 black France, the United States, and AmherstMedialnc.com, 120 and white illustrations, 7 x 5 ultimately Switzerland. Writing pp, 100 full color and black & inches. Available from Beacon of Nabokov's love of the par­ white photos, 11 x 8.5 inches. Press, 25 Beacon Street, Boston, ticular and his habits of detailed ISBN: 1-5842-8019-0. $29.95 (pa­ Massachusetts 02108-2892, observation, Boyd notes that perback). Amazon. com, or your local Nabokov "thought that only the Starting with a basic discussion bookseller. ISBN: 0-8070-8540-5. ridiculously unobservant could of butterfly anatomy, this book $45.00 (Cloth). be pessimists in a world as full delves into the details of their of surprising specificity as ours, (Note: See pp . 59 in this issue for habits and habitats, including and he arranged his own art a special offer for Lepidopterists' where and how they live and accordingly." Society members - Ed.) where and when to look for spe­ This single volume explores Robert Pyle 's introductory essay cific species. The majority of the Nabokov's contribution to both offers and unusual look at book is a thorough discussion of literature and Lepidoptera. It Nabokov, the scientist. Pyle re­ technique, including using auto features Dmitri Nabokov's veals Nabokov's contributions or manual focus, exposure com­ translation of his father's most to lepidopterology, traces his ini­ pensation, picking a lens, using exciting blend of literature and tial encounters with the species multipliers, extension rings, fil­ Lepidoptera, "Father's Butter­ he collected and, in revisiting ter, and flash, coping with move­ flies," a forty-page afterword to the bogs, fields, and mountain­ ment, and controlling the back­ The Gift. This appendix is re­ sides where Nabokov hunted, ground and light. leased here for the first time in brings alive the magic of Nabokov's passion for butter­ Your Florida Guide to any language and is one of the Butterfly Gardening: A longest pieces of Nabokov's fic­ flies . Pyle recounts the words of tion to appear since his death. biology professor John Downey Guide for the Deep South who, as a young man, encoun­ Also newly translated from the by Jaret C. Daniels. ©2000. Uni­ original Russian are a dozen tered Nabokov on a Utah versity Press of Florida, poems. Nabokov's entomologi­ mountainside: "He was dressed, www.upf.com.112 pp., 176 cal tale, "The Admirable Angle­ undressed might be a better color photos, 5 drawings, 7 x term, in yellow track shorts, slit wing," for instance, is published 10.25 inches. ISBN 0-8130-1790­ up the side, two low-cut canvas here for the first time and his 4. $14.95 (paperback). technical articles are made avail­ shoes, no socks, no shirt, and in This colorful book is the third in able to the general reader (the place of a hat a handkerchief the "Your Florida Guide" series longer ones have been thought­ knotted in each corner and fit­ and offers a thorough look at fully excerpted and annotated by ted to the top of his head like a Florida's most important butter­ Mr. Pyle). French tam." flies and the plants they prefer In addition to the new material, "Vladimir Nabokov knew," for food, shelter, and egg laying. writes Pyle, "what all butterfly this book offers an array of nov­ The illustrated guide helps you folk know: the rhapsodic thrall els, stories, poems, interviews select plants for a yard where in which one may be held by and diary entries, which, given butterflies can live and return butterflies and moths.... No sim­ the backdrop of his scientific year after year. It includes plant­ ple whim, Nabokov's butterflies writing, reveal themselves anew. ing diagrams, easy one-day con- It includes drawings by were the wings of a passion that Continued on pp. 53 Volume 42, Number 2 51 News of the Lepidopterists' Society Volume 42, Number 2 Membership Update•••

Julian Donahue

This update includes all changes received by 25 May 2000.

"Lost" Members History, Roosevelt Road at Lake Shore Vosefski, Alan: 3428 Petunia Crescent, Drive, Chicago, IL 60605-2496. Virginia Beach, VA 23456-2813. (publications returned: "temporarily Grinter, Chris: 1955 Shore Acres Williams, Kirk, III: 3 The Court, High away," "moved," "left no address," or Drive, Lake Bluff, IL 60044-1342. Park, Gracepark Road, Dublin 9, Ire­ "addressee unknown"): Henne, Don: Dept. of Entomology, 402 land. Hisayoshi Kojima (Los Angeles, CA, Life Sciences Building, Louisiana State Address Changes then Tokyo, Japan); Waldrep, Rich­ University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803. ard L. (Sparks, Maryland) Ishii, Minoru (Dr.): Entomological (all U.S.A. unless noted otherwise) New and Reinstated Members Laboratory, Graduate School of Agri­ Artz, Derek R.: Dept. of Biology, 215 culture and Biological Sciences, Osaka Cox Science Center, University of Mi­ Members who have joined/renewed/or Prefecture University, Sakai, Osaka ami, Coral Gables, FL 33124. rescinded their request to be omitted 599-8531, Japan. Balcazar-Lara, Manuel A. (Ph.D.); since publication of the 1998 Member­ Jimenez Guarda, Patricia: Elvira Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de ship Directory (not included in the 1998 Santa Cruz 3840, Macul, Santiago, Reg. Colima, Apdo. Postal 25, Av. 25 de Julio Membership Directory; all in U.S .A. Metropolitana, Chile. #965, Col. Villas San Sebastian, C.P. unless noted otherwise) Jones, Robert: 1434 Jackson Street, 28000 Colima, Colima, Mexico. Able, Shannon: 11903 Riverview Apt. 12, Oakland, CA 94612-4024. Beiriger, Robert: 16456 East Trafal­ Drive, Houston, TX 77077-3033. Koerner, Kent D.: [address omitted by gar Drive, Loxahatchee, FL 33470-4041. Arnold, Darrell: P.O. Box 1653, request] Cotton, Adam Miles: 191 Moo 1, Novato, CA 94948-1653. Landry, Johanne (Mrs.): Insectarium Tambon Nam Phrae, Hang Dong, Bollino, Maurizio (M.D.): Via de Montreal, 4581 Sherbrooke Est, Chiang Mai, Muang District 50230, Rapolla 24, 1-73100 Leece, Italy. Montreal, Quebec HIX 2B2, Canada. Thailand. Burkhart, Charles: 670 West End Longhibler, Nancy: [address omitted DeVries, Philip J. (Ph.D.): Center for Avenue, Apt. 3F, New York, NY 10025­ by request] Biodiversity Studies, Milwaukee Pub­ 7320. Martin, Gail L. (Mrs.); P.O. Box 262, lic Museum, 800 West Wells Street, Burridge, Sarah v.: 103 West 105 th Almond, NY 14804-0262. Milwaukee, WI 53233-1478. Street, Apt. 5B, New York, NY 10025­ Moore, Roger K.: 9 McDougal Street, Dixon, M. Keith: 2409 NE 288th 8834. Springhill, Nova Scotia BOM lXO, Street, Turney, MO 64493-2744. Coatney, Kevin M.: 90 Morlatton Canada. Einem, Gerald E.: Box 603, Tiverton, Road, Douglassville, PA 19518-9527. Reed, Chip: 224 Blackthorn Road NW, Nova Scotia BOV IGO, Canada. DeChaine, Eric: Dept. EPO Biology, Calgary, Alberta T2K 3S3, Canada. Estes, William J.: c/o Pazolski, 2532 N122 Ramaley, Campus Box 334, Uni­ Sage, Obie: 5500 Orr Springs Road, South Edgewood Street, Philadelphia, versity of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309 . Ukiah, CA 95482-9013. PA 19142-3505. Desautel, Brian: 127 East Princeton Sandker, Ernest L.: 10473 North Gendron, William D. (Bill); 335 East Avenue, Spokane, WA 99207-1558. River Road, P.O. Box 291, Constantine, Grove Street, Pomona, CA 91767-1740. Edwards, Alana M.: 3206 Palm Drive, MI49042-0291. Johnson, Ian: 18 Bathurst Walk, Iver, Delray Beach, FL 33483-6217. Schneider, Jerry: P.O. Box 212, Bucks. SLO 9AZ, England. Gates, Ronald: 4331 South Quincy Hardwick, VT 05843-0212. Kojima, Hisayoshi: 201 3-2-1 Place, Tulsa, OK 74105-4135. Soukup, Michael E.: 1371 Dicus Mill Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 130, Japan. Ghorpade, Kumar (Ph.D.): 1861 Road, Severn, MD 21144-3504. Matsumoto, Kazuma (Ph.D.): Tama th Bethel Street, Kalyana Nagar, Traas, Pamela F.: 326 4 Avenue Forest Science Garden, FFPRI, Todori­ Bangalore, Karnataka 560 043, India. North, Safety Harbor, FL 34695-3633. cho 1833, Hachioji, Tokyo 193-0843, Goldstein, Paul Z. (Ph.D.): Division Vitale, Fabio (Ph.D.); P.O. Box 199, 1­ Japan. of Insects, Field Museum of Natural 73100 Leece, Italy.

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Chionodes...cont'd from page 44 Berkeley moths. Books...continued from pp. 48 rations in vials than ones that are slide­ Chionodes has tied the geometrid genus tainer projects, and full garden layouts mounted. Eupithecia (which demands similar designed for each of Florida's three Excluding the time to collect the moths identification skills) as the most major growing zones and suitable for and to become proficient at making dis­ speciose genus at my Lepidoptera sur­ gardens throughout the Deep South. sections, it took me about six weeks vey site. All told, there were about 100 The author, an avid lepidopterist, per­ (evenings and weekends) to go through specimens of Chionodes (9 spp.), 50 suaded his household to allow their my conglomeration of gelechiids. My Filatima (lor 2 spp.), 40 Aroga (at least garage to become a butterfly farm and copy of Hodges rapidly became dog­ 4 spp.), 1 Gelechia, and a few other raised many of the creatures pictured eared from leafing back and forth among gelechiids from my study site. Distribu­ in the book. The full-color photographs the keys, the species descriptions, the tion records for Chionodes (which, con­ show butterflies, their caterpillars, food genitalic illustrations, and the color trary to what is stated in the mono­ plants, host plants, and garden designs. photos. Learning the species was an graph, are not available on-line) suggest This book is published in cooperation iterative process of sorting by external that similar or greater diversity can be with the Institute of Food & Agricul­ characteristics, dissecting a sufficient found in much of the continent. tural Sciences. number of males and females from each Recently, I discovered that I was able to Heliothine Moths of Australia: A group, keying them out, and re-group­ help a local collector put names on all ing my moths. I gradually got a handle his Chionodes and Chionodes-like Reference Guide to Pest Bollworms on the range of color, pattern, and moths from another Lepidoptera survey and Related Noctuid Groups genitalic variation within each species. not far from my study site without hav­ by M. Matthews. ©1999. CSIRO Pub­ Ultimately, I became confident that each ing to dissect any of them. Of course, I lishing, uruno.publish.ceiro.au, 332 group was composed of a single species probably could have faked it by putting pp., ISBN: 0-6430-6305-6. $90.00 that was distinct from the others and almost any name at random on the (Hardcover). that the males were correctly associated moths and still passed myself off as a with the females. Eventually, dissec­ Chionodes expert, but it's much more Heliothine moths are major agricul­ tions became unnecessary except for satisfying to be the real deal. Besides, tural pests worldwide attacking a wide flight-worn specimens and female Ch. the $100 I spent on the book and the range of food and fiber crops. This book braunella, which were perplexingly $1000 plus I plunked down for imple­ provides general, concise summaries of similar by facies to an Aroga and a ments and supplies would have been the agricultural importance of Filatima species. wasted, wouldn't it? heliothines, their biology, systematics, and morphology are given. An up-to After later comparing my moths with Literature Cited date- summary of heliothine phylogeny, specimens at Berkeley that Hodges used Busck, A. 1939. Restriction of the genus based on morphological and molecular for his revision, I'm pleased to say that Gelechia (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae), with information, provides a framework for the keys generally worked. I correctly descriptions of new genera. Proc. U.S. Nat. organizing and interpreting biological Mus. 86 (3864): 563-608 . identified 8 of the 9 species from my information about all heliothine moths. local study site. The other turned out Hodges, R. W 1999. Gelechioidea, Gelechiidae (part), Gelechiinae (part-Chionodes) in The 38 Australian heliothine species are to be 1 of the 2 choices I could not de­ Dominick, R. B. et aI. The Moths ofAmerica detailed with identification information cide between before comparing it to the North of Mexico, fasc . 7.6. 1-339. and individual species treatments. All species are illustrated in color, and there are many color photographs of immature stages and live adults, addi­ tionally there are 351 black and white images. Nomenclatural information of interest to taxonomists appears in an Middagh, Tom: 29232 280th Street, Schleyer, Axel (Ph.D.): 2640 Monte appendix, and includes a full checklist Worthington, MN 56187-6264 [correc­ Vista Avenue, EI Cerrito, CA 94530­ and detailed information of type species. tion of incorrect address published in 1534. A CD-ROM packaged with the book last issue]. Simonson, Sara E.: 219 South Loomis contains a searchable database of all Osborne, Ken H.: 7451 Mount Vernon Avenue, Fort Collins, CO 80521-2540. 14,800 Australian heliothine specimens Street, Riverside, CA 92504-3721. Walters, Ryan: 6651 Paiute Court, examined. It also carries nomenclatural Penz, Carla M. (Ph.D.): Department Longmont, CO 80503-8661. information and images of type speci­ of Invertebrate Zoology, Milwaukee mens. Public Museum, 800 West Wells Street, Milwaukee, WI 53233-1479.

Volume 42, Number 2 53 News of the Lepidopterists' Society Volume 42, Number 2 Out of the Net••• by Jim Taylor, [email protected]

Folks, most of this quarter's column is tera of New York and Neighboring base which match the description. If devoted to a truly grand event: the States by William T. M. Forbes, pub­ there is no match, you are so informed. Plant Pest Diagnostics Center of the lished by Cornell in four parts from Better still, some (not all) of the moths California Department of Food and 1920 to 1960. The third part, in the list have pictures associated with Agriculture has birthed a useful and Noctuidae, is over 400 pages of small­ them, and a click will bring up an im­ intelligent website. Midwives are Tho­ ish print and microscopic footnotes. The age you can compare to what you have mas D. Eichlin, Dennis E . Mayhew, book contains keys to every species of in your hand. For each bug in the base, Scott A. Kinnee, and Ronald E. Noctuid found, at publication time, in whether pictured or not, is a condensed Somerby (with photos by C. S. Papp and the northeast. description of the moth-the answers Scott A. Kinnee). You may worship at The value of these four volumes to me to the 21 questions. (I was tempted to www.cdfa.ca.gov/plant/ppd/ is that the species described range far end this last sentence with an exclama­ noctuidl. beyond New York, so the keys and de­ tion point, but as an old C+ + program­ Now, moth-ers will immediately see this scriptions give me a boost in looking at mer I am loath to use the NOT opera­ as a work rivaling the Hanging Gar­ some I find here in coastal Georgia. (By tor in connection with a truly a great dens or the Pyramids or the Vince the way, one of the four volumes-the site.) Lombardi Trophy; so they should skip skinniest one-includes skippers and There is an accompanying list of all the next paragraph or so while I give butterflies, along with six families of Noctuidae represented so far, and (at butterfly people some inkling of its moths.) this writing) there are nearly 700. Since magnitude. Now that the butterfliers are up to the sponsor is the California pest con­ Butterflies in the hand are easy to iden­ speed, everyone please consider the site, trol folks, I suspect the site is heavily tify. Usually, moths are not. Sheer which follows Forbes fairly faithfully. weighted toward western bugs-par­ number is part of the problem-in the Forbes begins with a key of fifteen ticularly those that eat what humans U.S . there are probably over 15,000 choices which separates the family into eat or consider ornamental. The site species. Indeed, many of the micros can fourteen subfamilies, each with a key promises to add to the base; I'd like to be identified only by experts, and then to genera, and then each genus with a see them add all 14,000 or so remain­ frequently only by dissection. Seldom is key to species. The first choice is "Eyes ing by, say, Labor Day. This year. color or wing pattern of much use (as hairy..." or "Eyes naked..." Guess Just GREAT. it is in butterflies)-and that is why, I what? The second choice at the website Okay, one last word on eye patterns in th suppose, we don't have 4 of July Moth is precisely that (the first is the pres­ moths. Editor Phil, phrantic to get me Counts. ence or absence of ocelli) . off this topic, gave me a reference not Moths are divided into 70 or so fami­ Now on to the good stuff. The site be­ long ago to an article in our own be­ lies, depending upon the authority, and gins with 21 questions, most of which loved Journal: Taxonomic Significance the Noctuidae account for about a third are as easy to answer as "hairy eyes" ofReflective Patterns in the Compound of the species. Further, since Noctuids or "naked eyes." In reality, more than Eye of Live Butterflies: a synthesis of are a prolific and brazen bunch, they 21 questions are present; eight of them observations made on species from Ja­ probably account for most of the activ­ are multiple choice rather than a binary pan, Taiwan, Papua New Guinea and ity around your porch light at night. either/or, but nonetheless reasonably Australia (vol. 27 pp. 161-175). I read Noctuids vary widely in appearance. easy for this amateur to follow. Simply it at FASCA in Gainesville last week, The subfamily count is about 18, again click your choice of radio button on and it has nothing to do with the sort depending upon the authority, and are each question. And by the way, you of patterns I have been asking about. distinguished, one from another, mostly don't have to click every button; if you The butterfly eye patterns discussed in by body characteristics, some of which are unsure, just leave the question the paper were "reflective spots that are hard to see and recognize. blank. changed their position according to the I suppose the granddaddy of references Click "Search," and the result is a list­ direction of the observation." Mine stay on moths (in this country) is Lepidop- short or long-of the bugs in the data- right there regardless of angle.

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In the interest of looking at the prob­ lem from the inside, I sacrificed a rare and very valuable specimen, "From the Helicoverpa zea , the corn earworm moth. The eye is a uniform tan with Editor's Desk dark brown lines forming the random pattern-kinda like a dried mud flat Phil Schappert complete with cracks formed by the shrinking mud. Using a 00 pin I per­ formed a lens-ectomy on its right eye­ Late again! stalwart crew of bug-laden software (ap­ nothing delicate about it; I just pried at As hard as I try (maybe too hard), life propriate for us entomological types but it from the side at the head. The shell still maddening) to recognize devices never works out as I planned. The sub­ broke evenly around its perimeter and mission closing date for this issue was that I knew were there but it obviously popped off much like half a Ping-Pong didn't. A private aside to Mr. Gates: the the end of April so it should have gone ball. to the printer around mid-May-given recent court ruling is "too little, too late" (I seriously considered hiring a pie ' On the inside of the shell were dark a couple of weeks to edit, prepare, as­ thrower but, alas, I'm too civilized to brown structures appearing to rise from semble, format and tweak. So why is it carry through on such a threat. Pity.) the inside of the eye to the surface of nearing the middle of June and I'm just the large, tan areas. The "cracks," finishing the issue?!? So this issue has been done sans which appeared dark brown from the printed output (except via Acrobat files When life is going well, especially if outside, were clear. And if I learn noth­ printed off of the Mac. I could do the everything seems to be going along ing further, that's all I'll have to say swimmingly, then you're due for the ex­ entire News on the Mac but do you about it; but I really would like one of know how much fonts cost!?), using crement to hit the ventilator (if you get you biology majors to look at YOUR my drift). Murphy was a disgusting op­ scanners on campus, my much-slower corn earworm under a better micro­ (aggravatingly so) office system, and timist. The first link in the broken scope than mine. various and sundry other "work­ chain was an old SCSI internal ZIP arounds." Anyone who works or plays By the way, I put H. zea back in the drive that died in my DTP system. No with computers knows all about work­ collection sans one eye. Anyone care to problem, just install a new one, right? donate a teeny eye patch? And maybe a arounds. Unh-unh... very small Hathaway shirt? Of course, the preceding diatribe not­ Turns out that they don't make the in­ withstanding, I could just have said ternal SCSI drives anymore so I had no that, since the submission closing date CAROLINA choice but to replace it with an exter­ for the next issue was set for the end 0 nal model (and the system already looks July, during-as it turns out- the an­ like some many-headed monster) or an nual meeting this year (Winston­ ~ internal IDE unit (this is probably Salem, NC, July26-30-don't forget!), Tip; starting to sound very arcane to any­ I purposely delayed this issue so that I one who's not computer savvy). Now, could change the closing date for the I've upgraded more than a few compu­ next issue to the end of August-after ter systems in my time so thought, the meeting-so that you could get all "hey, this is going to be easy." of your photos, articles and memories Wrong. of the meeting to me in time for the next issue. (hint, hint) To make a long-and increasingly laden with acronyms-story short, Yeah, that's the ticket. when I restarted my system it dutifully That was my plan all along. That stuff recorded the presence of the new ZIP about broken computers and sundry drive (Yay!) but refused to recognize other technical problems was just col­ the existing floppy drives, any of the 1/ umn filler-the real reason is the tim­ o ports (no input/output ports means ing of the meeting and the next issue of A beautiful recent publication from no printers or other external devices), the News. No, really. or the SCSI card (Sorry, but your scan­ Carolina Biological Supply Co., Mag­ Anyway, that's my story (and I'm stick­ ners don't live here no morel) nificent Wild Silk Moths, by member ing with it) ... Valerie A. Passoa is free for the asking No matter what, or how hard, I tried I Til' next time, mes amis! by calling 1-800-334-5551. could not convince Mr. Gates' rarely-

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Wish to collect legally in Costa Rica? Whether you decide to visit Costa Rica for pleasure or work we can help you obtain your Official Collecting permit for the time of your stay. You would be allowed to collect in all the country (ex­ cept National Parks). Costa Rica rain forests are unique in what you can get: species from the north (Mexico) or the south (Sou t h America). Contact: Miguel E. Chumpitasi, P.O.Box 1106­ 2150, Moravia, San Jose, Costa Rica or phone/fax (506 ) 236-1447, echumpi@ sot.racsa.co.er. 414 Miscellaneous Looking for companion to go on Field Trip to Ecuador, Sept. 1 to Sept. 15, 2000 . Contact Leroy Simon,(352) 245­ 8351, 5975 SE 122 nd Pl. , Belleview, FL 34420. 422 Small personal butterfly collection (- 30 Schmitt boxes, -2 Xerox paper boxes with immatures in alcohol). Most are Nymphalids, especially Asterocampa, on which I did my dissertation. In ad­ dition, I have literature (reprints and books), drawings, manuscripts and journals (An n . Rev. Entomol., 1980­ Notice Notice 1997; J. Lepid. Soc., 1978-present (incl. News); J. Res . Lepid.,(1980-current); New Membership Directory Alert The Taxonomic Report: Mol. BioI. Evol., 1989-present and Syst. Julian Donahue, Assistant Secretary recent issue titles. Zool, 1978-1991 + Syst. BioI. , 1992­ The biennial Membership Directory will Hubner's Helicta : the forgotten Neonympha. current). I can no longer maintain the R. R. Gatrelle. Vol 1(8), 15, July 1999. collections and have no further profes­ be published in November. You should Celastrina idella (Lycaeriidae: sional interest in entomology. Ifyou are act now if you have changed your e­ Polyomrnatinae): a new butterfly species seriously interested in any of the above, mail address, have new telephone or fax from the Atlantic coastal plain. D. M. Wright numbers (especially if you have moved), and H. Pavulaan. Vol. 1(9), 15 August 1999. please call or write with details of your Three new Hesperioidae from South Carolina: interests. I have yet to compile a list of if you want to add to or revise your list new subspecies of Euphyes bimacula , Poanes butterfly species, reprints or books so of interests, or if you want to request aaroni, and Hesperia attalus . R. R. Gatrelle. I'm looking for specific requests or of­ that all or part of your listing be omit­ Vol. 1(10), 24 December 1999. ted from the Directory (phone number, A New Elfin Butterfly (Lycaenidae: Eumaini) fers for the whole lot. Tim Friedlander, from Northern China with Comments on 14012 Great Notch Terrace, North address + phone number, or elect to not the Nomenclature of Palearctic Elfins. K. Potomac, MD 20878, 301-294-3361. 414 be listed at all). Send all additions and Johnson. Vol. 2(1), 1 January 2000. corrections to : Research Requests Julian Donahue, 735 Rome Drive, Los Publications concerning Midwestern Angeles, CA 90065-4040, USA; e-mail Ichneumon wasps (Hymenoptera: Ich­ [email protected]. For a copy of neumonidae) are required in support of your current listing send a SASE, or re­ my studies of Sesiid moths. There ap ­ quest an e-mail reply. pear to be a number of Ichneumon wasps that are sympatric with and al­ wasps and these moths. Comprehen­ be returned to you. Contact: John most indistinguishable from Albuna sive, detailed texts/papers with color Holoyda, 5407 N. Oketo Ave., Chicago, fraxini vitriosa (Sesiidae). I am investi­ pictures would be very useful. Postage IL 60656-1746. 421 gating potential mimicry between the prepaid and all literature/material will

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Contributions to C.PO Gillette Nabokov's Butterflies Museum ofArthropod Biodiversity. Moths of western Nabokov's Butteflies is a new book plus a wealth of beautiful and fanciful North America. 3. Distribution of published by Beacon Press which com­ drawings by Nabokov and photographs piles previously unpublished and uncol­ of him in the field. Arctiidae of western North America, Part I. lected works by Vladimir Nabokov. In­ Here for the first time, newly translated cluded are new translations from Rus­ from the Russian by Dmitri Nabokov, Text, systematic list, bibliography, and sian by Dmitri Nabokov. The volume is is Nabokov's most intense amalgam of maps by D. C. Ferguson, P. A. Opler, M. edited and annotated by Brian Boyd and literature and Lepidoptera, his forty­ J. Smith, and J . P. Donahue is now Robert Michael Pyle. This book docu­ page afterword to The Gift-cut short available. $24.00, includes shipping. ments the many ways that lepidoptera by his switch from Russian to English Quick mail extra. influenced and guided the life and writ­ and from Europe to America at the mid­ This atlas includes a revised systematic ings of Nabokov, and includes plates of point of his life-an immensely rich and Nabokov's sketches and specimens he list for western arctiidae by D. C. revealing work. Here too are scores of Ferguson, maps of all described west­ collected. The book has a list price of fascinating letters to his mother, wife, $45, but the Lepidopterists' Society is ern species compiled from most major and colleagues; the unexpected scientific North American museums and several offering the book for $35 plus $3 .50 articles; "The Admirable Anglewing," shipping; a great bargain on a wonder­ private collections. Records from mono­ an intriguing entomological tale; a taste graphic treatments are also included. ful volume, and each sale earns $10 for of the prodigious work he expended on the Society. This is the first comprehensive treat­ his ultimately unrealized Butterflies of ment of western North American spe­ From the book jacket: Europe; and then poems newly trans­ cies. It does not include identification Literature and lepidoptera dance an lated from the original Russian. keys or images. Part 2, anticipated later elaborate pas de deux through seventy Nabokov's Butterflies is major liter­ in 2000 will include images of almost years of Vladimir Nabokov's life, from ary event: not only in chronological all described western species. his boyhood in Russia to his life as an scope but also in genre, no other vol­ Send your order and payment made out emigre in the Crimea, Berlin, France, ume of Nabokov's writing encompasses to Gillette Publications to: the United States, and finally in Swit­ such variety. It is, as Dmitri Nabokov Dr. Paul A. Opler, Gillette Publications zerland. An American literary giant, has said, a book that "would have Department of Bioagricultural Sciences Nabokov also produced first-rate work warmed the cockles of Father's heart," Colorado State University as a scientist, and in his fiction and else­ and a must-have for admirers of the Fort Collins, CO 80523 where eloquently advocated attention to great novelist and all who appreciate the details of the natural world and the joys of Lepidoptera. promoted the delights of discovery. Orders can be placed by sending a check fundamental raison d'etre of the Soci­ Nabokov's Butterflies presents for $38.50, made out to the Lepidopter­ ety is to serve as a meeting ground be­ Nabokov's twin passions through an ists' Society, to: tween "amateurs" and "professionals" astonishingly rich array of novel selec­ Brian Scholtens in the field. If all members receive the tions, stories, poems, screenplay, auto­ 710 New Market Dr. same publications some "osmosis" is biography, criticism, lectures, articles, Mt. Pleasant, SC 29464 bound to occur, and we will all be bet­ reviews, interviews, letters, and notes, ter informed as a consequence. Another reason for not offering a choice of pub­ Notice lications is more mundane: the added bookkeeping would be burdensome, "Save Money, Don't Send me the Journal!" and our present membership software Julian Donahue, Assistant Secretary would have to be modified, at a cost of several hundred dollars. It's more cost­ efficient to send all publications to all One member recently wrote this on his varying prices, is offered by a number members. Local schools, libraries, na­ dues notice, painfully aware that the of entomological societies and has, in ture centers, and the like are starved dues were increased this year as a re- fact, been the subject of recurring dis­ for resources; surely a grateful recipi­ sult of rising costs. The option to cussion in the Society. The principal ent can be found for Society publica­ choose which publications to receive, at reason for rejecting the idea is that a tions you no longer need.

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Paul Manton 10 Flower S treet, Hicksville, NY 11801

What pre-adolescent is not, like My own kingdom, where I collected Wordsworth and Hopkins, painters Thoreau at Walden Pond, who never butterflies, was the dusty, overgrown such as Monet and Cezanne, but behind really went far afield the creature com­ wayside of a long abandoned Long Is­ it was a neurotic compulsiveness. forts of Emerson's Old Manse, monarch land road where tall grass, wildflowers, Nabokov called his own living for the of all he or she surveys? It may be an and thickets had decades before usurped past a "hypertrophied sense of lost inner city vacant lot or a suburban the extinct jalopies; those ancient mo­ childhood." His butterfly collecting was backyard or a grove in the country tor cars that flicker by still in ragtime­ his vital connection to his family's es­ where young minds of undampened accompanied silent films. I should re­ tate confiscated in the Bolshevik Revo­ enthusiasm revel in the exploits of cow­ frain from dubbing my experiences "col­ lution and, by consequence, the bygone boys and Indians, pirates, soldier s, lecting," choosing the more eccentric 19th Century. The pastures and fields astronauts, or Vikings. Children are and Victorian "ent omologizing" in its of Rozhestveno were his Elysian Mead­ endowed with a natural thirst for ad­ stead. The former seems far too system­ ows . He, like his father who was also venture, a need to spin yar ns and leg­ atic and methodical for the dilettante an avid entomologist, had the queer ends about the spooky boarded-up old observer to lay claim. They are more knack for recalling a past encounter house in their neighborhood, and a de­ vignette than formal observation; dis­ with a particular uncommon butterfly sire to survey and collect every creature connected gleanings on nameless by­ in the field the way most of us remem­ that inhabits their realm as conquerors gone days rich in the stirrings of ber where we were and what we were of old returned from their tr iu mphs memory precisely because of their frag­ doing (and 1963, in general) when we with beasts from vanquished lands. In mentary nature. first heard about J.F.K.'s assassination. my case, it was a rippling meadow and To give these stirrings their due is to Every reminisce was a fragment of a dreams of the likes of David Livingstone understand not only the Proustian ob­ former world to be cherished against the in Darkest Africa and Henry Bates in session with recapturing the fleeting past-less present and the future which Amazonia's "green inferno." moments that have receded into the is a mere abstraction devoid of memo­ Such a fantasy can be dangerous if per­ passing years, but also to appreciate the ries, history, or artifact to give evidence mitted to survive unrealized beyond the hopeless neurosis that spawned it. For of its reality. teen years. Paul Pilgram, the corpulent, poor anxiety-ridden Proust, asthmatic It is not incidental that butterflies pro­ slovenly, ill-health plagued shopkeeper and tormented by the pangs of intense vided Nabokov with the same mne­ in Nabokov's "The Aurelian" was such hypochondria, life was survivable not monic mechanism as Proust's Made­ a frustrated man who lived in a life of because of hope for the future, but be­ leine. Many a naturalist's life is quiet desperation. He had dreamed of cause of hope for the past. Revisit an festooned with intimations of immortal­ escape from his shabby, petit bourgeois exact point in time and that point be­ ity ; remembered experiences of nature life in Weimar Berlin to exotic lands comes a portal wherein one can enter a that imbed themselves in the psyche. To where he could net gorgeous tropical world one has once inhabited and sur­ grasp hold of a manifestation of natu­ butterflies. But "what had been in his vived. Such a calming certainty may ral phenomena and through unique youth a delightfully exciting plan had explain why Proust could place such personal observation render it inextri­ now gradually become a dark, passion­ emphasis on vivid detail recollection cable from one's sense of self, is to tri­ ate obsession." The dream, defeated by affected by the most seemingly incon­ umph over the passage of time even as life's circumstances, avenged itself by sequential stimuli while his whole per­ it inexorably claims mind and body in reducing Pilgram to a depressed and sona was that of a twitchy and nervous increments. "The eternal youthfulness depressing man whose soul became man emotionally jarred by nothing of Nature answers all my own feelings drained of color as the Morphos and more traumatic than the present. of youth and preserves it," wrote Tho­ Swallowtails in his shop window were His desire to affix his identity to some­ mas Wentworth Higginson. brilliantly hued. He had not, in his thing external drew him to nature. "... as I turn from these men and bleak urban environs, a magical place, However, according to his biographer, an entomological Eden in which to women whom I watch gradually Ronald Hayman, his "passionate inten­ submerged under the tide of gray dwell. And electronic ersatz reality lay sity in looking at natural objects is com­ in an unimagined future. hairs-it seems a bliss I have never parable to that of poets such as earned, to find bird, insect, and

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flower renewing itself every year in entomologist-defined in those days as thing ethereal was lost . Suddenly it was fresh eternal beauty, the same as in "one who studies bugs and looks at not the same Tiger Swallowtail I had my earliest childhood. The little red them-gave me a 1936 copy of Frank spied sailing across the field. It had been butterflies have not changed a E. Lutz' Field Book of Insects. I was reduced to a mere scientific specimen to streak of black on their busy wings , utterly flabbergasted to discover that have for the possessing What a nine nor the azure dragonflies lost or this ubiquitous little white butterfly year old learns from such an experience, gained a shade of color since we with licorice-streaked wingtips was not is that some of the most meaningful Cambridge children caught them in found in America before the Civil War, things in life are those that can not be our childish hands." but had, in fact, been introduced to captured or frozen in time, but must be How generous is nature, indeed, in the Quebec and New York City in 1860 and enjoyed while passing through, how­ bliss of "eternal youthfulness." It has 1868, respectively. Like Mediaeval ever briefly, and then remembered given us, by way of the butterfly, the scholars who had assumed the Creation forevermore with a fondness and mel­ metaphor for every comforting thought to be static, it had not occurred to me, ancholia. that fortifies self-aware beings against until then, that the natural world had To wit: The Five Spotted Hawkmoth the cold and dark and infinite gulfs of its own chronicles and recorded history. (Manduca quinquemaculata) appearing time and space. Alas, in the hands of Indeed, the Cabbage White, of European and disappearing after dusk. Its flight Darwin's generation, the butterfly in its origin, has largely displaced the Veined defines eccentric orbits about the street theme and variation of form and distri­ White (Pieris napi), which had been a lamp before vanishing into the velvet of bution and habit became an indelible considerable agricultural pest on mus­ the mid-summer's night. How different documentation of the reality of evolu­ tards, cabbages, and related plants in is this creature of the humid night air tion. Change, not stability. Random­ the early 19th Century. from us and how limited is the realm of ness, not design. A microcosm not of To wit: The coasting Monarch (Danaus human experience. It lives life on the eternal artistry, but of a passing in­ plexippus) over hedgerow; wheeling wing, sipping nectar from flowers like stant, however lengthy in human around to alight on milkweed. On es­ a humming bird and, indeed, superfi­ terms. Nineteenth Century naturalists pecially breezy days it is seen sipping cially resembles a humming bird. Back like Henry Bates and Alfred Wallace­ nectar from a red clover and holding in the 1840's, Henry Bates was con­ no less than Charles Darwin-seemed fast the flower head like an orange and founded to convince some Brazilian to have captured and pinned on to a black banner bending and snapping Indians of his acquaintance that hawk spreading board, the very soul of the crisply. I learned about the metamorpho­ moths and their look-alikes were quite butterfly. sis of the butterfly rearing the naked, distinct. The Indians, it turns out, were Or did they? Every lepidopterist is nec­ zebra-stripped caterpillars even before just as aware of the metamorphosis of essarily a poet. But the physicist's junior high school. Seeing the process insects as Western naturalists. If a analysis of hydrogen spectra does not repeated summer after summer as I got worm with a voracious appetite for degrade the beauty of a rainbow one iota older, family pets died, neighbors moved leaves, and an equally prodigious pro­ more than the romantic should be con­ away, and grandparents who were vig­ duction of droppings (called "frass" by cerned that all the lunar samples and orous youths when the aircraft was a entomologists), could settle down into geophysical calibrations will ever define box kite-like toy, faded , taught me that an ornate sarcophagus only to emerge a moon-lit summer evening. To ac­ life is a juxtapositioning of the eternal in winged splendor, the transformation knowledge that happiness is serotonin and the ephemeral. to humming bird seemed a trifle modi­ in the brain, that love is the interplay To wit: The elegant Tiger Swallowtail fication. of anatomy and hormones, or that the (Papilio glaucus) dipping and floating Such curiosities play havoc with our ties that bind are really selfish genes at under blue sky and wisps of hooked­ innate sense of plausibility and the work, does not lessen the depth of hu­ tipped cirrus clouds. A most elusive metaphorical. The transformation of man experience. Ultimately, a stray beauty. Once-I don't know when, the butterfly from Earth-bound cater­ childhood memory of a butterfly dart­ maybe in 1971-1 bolted across my pillar to ethereal beauty of the air was, ing from bloom to bloom in a quiet meadow, leaped into the air, and with a to the pre-Darwinian theologian, a kind wayside meadow is the only star to "badminton save," netted one. It was of reflection of Christ's Resurrection guide us as we sail into the inky black as though I had captured a sunbeam or and the promise that one day all the night of mortal eventuality. a snowflake. A few minutes in my cof­ world's tombs would be as empty chry­ To wit: The Cabbage White (Pieris fee can/killing jar and it was ready for salides. rapae) lazily tumbling across the mounting and then exhibition in a ci­ It defies the limits of credulity still. meadow and frequently backtracking as gar box my grandfather gave me ; a it hugs the contours of shrub and proud trophy displayed like a coat of Part 1 of2. Part 2 will appear in the fencepost. My father, seeing a budding arms in full achievement. But some- next issue of the News...

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