In this tribe the secondaries are oftenest gaily coloured (mostly yellow) and banded, still subordinated to the primaries which show, more or less adequately, the usual Noctuidous ornamentation. The abdomen is rarely tufte. On account of the shape of the primaries, the form of the abodmen, the abdominal tuftings, the pattern of the wings beneath, the apporacth to Ophideres, I regard the genus and species Euparthenos nubilis, Ann N.Y. Lyc. Nat. Hist., as entirely distinct from Catocala sp.

I am surprised to see in the May number of the Canadian Entomologist a criticism of my paper on “Argynnis” in a style which is not easy to reply to, and which is certainly not justified by the paper itself. Mr.Edwards seems to think that no one has a right to question his opinions on butterflies unitl they have seen the so-called types from which his original descriptions were made, and that the practical monopoly which he has lately held in the description of new species in the United States gices him the positon of an oracle.

Upon looking over the specimens of this family, which I had collected during the past few years near Ithaca, I discovered a new species of Chernes, which may be characterized as follows:-

Chernes pallidus, nov. spec. Length about 2 mm.; body ovate oblong; cephalothorax a little broader behind than in front; finely serrulate on the margin; body finely granulate and furnished with short, yellowish, clavte hairs.

Diplochila major Lec. [Rhembus]. A.O.

Calathus gregarisu Say. L'O., St. L.

ingratus Dej. N.C., C.L., O.K., O., N., R. A.

race confusus Lec. B.C

Head small, retracted; tongue short and weak, membraneous; palpi very short and feeble. Legs moderate, rather short; tibial spurs present but very feebly developed. Fore tibiæ unarmed. Antennæ moderately long, bipectinated in the male, simple or serrate in the female. The tarsal claws are toothed in all the species examined. In virginica the posterior tarsi only, in vestalis all are toothed.

But little seems to have been written on the fauna of this interesting island, and therefore I hope that a few notes bearing on the subject may not be without interest to the readers of the Canadian Entomoloigst. It was my good fortune to spend nearly a month in the vicinity of Victoria last summer, and I append some account of observations made at the time.