As Mr. Scudder has charged me with blunders of one sort or other, I am compelled to notice the matter, as slience on my part would properly be construed as an acknlowledgement that he was right.

O. On p. 1805, the synonymy of Argynnis (Brenthis) Freija is given, closing thus: “Argynnis Chariclea Edw., in his catalogues.” And on p. 180, under Chariclea: “Argynnis Freya Edw., in his cat.”

Black above, yellowish brown beneath. The antennæ are black, the front, mouth parts and legs yellowish brown. Rarely the femora and tarsi are dusky, and the ventral surface quite dark. Very rarely the dorsal surface is brownish, except the pedicel and tip. The occiput or collar is brown. The antennæ are sixteen-jointed in the female, and seventeen in the male, and are cylindrical, recurved, and thickly set with short, light colored hairs. The first two joints are shorter and larger that the others; the succeeding joints are cylindrical, close together, and equal in length, except the last, which is longer and conical.

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.

During the summer of 1888 considerable anxiety was caused amongst North American millers by the alarming intelligence that the small Pyralid moth, bearing the name given above, had made its appearnce in one of our large Candian milling centres. There are two or three well-known insects which attack manufactured cereal products; but none of these, have ever occurred in injurious numbers in Canada.

Melitæa Augusta.

Male.—Expands from 1.6 to 1.75 inch; belongs to Chalcedon group, but is an conspicuously red as the species Chalcedon is black; upper side black, the surface nearly covered with light red and pale yellow spots, disposed as in the group; the basal areas dusted with yellow scales which, on primaries, extend along both margins; costa of same wing edged red; both hind margins bordered by small red spots, varying in shape, sometimes narrow and as of a broken stripe, sometimes more or lesss rounded to ovate; the spots of second row ar small, lunular, largest of secondaries, edged with red, the interior being yellow, or they are nearly all red with a small yellow patch in middle; sometimes this yellow is thinly washed red; the third row on primaries is either wholly yellow, or yellow with red edges, particularly on the outer side; on secondaries wholly red, and often very deep, so as to make a conspicuous broad band; the fourth row on primaries is red, sometimes with the spots next the two margins either yellow or in put yellow; around the end of cell yellow spots four or five in number; in the cell spots of red and yellow alternately, four in all, the yellow one at base more or less stained red; two yellow spots below cell with black ground between, and nearer base a small duplex red one; the fourth row on secondaries is yellow, either of small spots or pretty large ones, and the three or four from costal margin are red on their outer side; a red stripe outside the cell from the end to costal margin; two small yellow spots inside cell, with a red one between them and a yellow spot below; fringes yellow, black at the tips of the nervules.

We have now passed in brief review the bombyciform Noctuidœ, or Thyatirinœ, and the typical Noctuidœ, or Noctuinœ (Noctuœ nonfasciatœ). The former group differs in certain details of the neuration, and the question comes up as to the value of this character for classification. In all other repects, this small assemblage of moths must be considered as belonging to the Noctuidœ.

All the described species of Balaninus in habiting America north of mexico when larvæ live in the fruit (nuts and acorns) of the various species of Quercus, Castanea, Corylus, and perhaps Fagus of the order Cupuliferœ and Carya of the Juglandaceœ. Acorns, somewhat largely used in this country in the arts and in the manufcture of certain dietetics, are mostly imported, the native production being rendered almost worthless by these larvæ; and our chestnuts as soon as collected must be kiln-dried or otherwise treated, which renders them greatly inferior to those of foreign countries.

Mr. Sucdder's recent admirable work on the butterflies of New England has, naturally enough, given rise to fresh discussion of the question of generic nomenclature, without, however, leading to any very decisive result. Mr. Scudder's views on the sub-division of hitherto-accepted generic units are certainly extreme, and probably few will be found to follow him entirely. On the other hand, many no doubt feel that Mr. W. H. Edwards's genera require some sort of sub-division, and would compromise matters by admitting some, and rejecting others, of Mr. Scudder's divisions.

So much of the text of Mr. Elwe' paper as relates to North American Species has recently been printed in Psyche (March), but the synonymic list, which is most important for a full comprehension of the state of mind of the author, was omitted. I applied to the editor of the Can. Ent. to print the list, but it was found that it would occupy nearly one-half the space of a number, and it was not thought expedient to give it.

Soiled white. Antennal depression, a dot on each ocellus, a pair of large round spots on the vertex, an angular spot behind each eye, the basal angles of the scutellum, the tergum and disc of the pleural pieces, black; the elytra whitish hyaline generally with fuscous nervures. Length about 6 mm.

As the description of this species is not readily accessible to students, I reproduce it here:-

“Female rosy red; body densely clothed, and partly pale yellow beneath; head with a pale yellow band on the front; palpi extreemely short; thorax with six longitudinal pale yellow streaks; abdoment rosy, lanuginous and partly yellow to the base, extending much beyond the hind wings; fore wings with some pale yellowish streaks toward the base, with three exteriro whitish macular, very oblique bands; spots mostly cuneiform; cost straight; tips slightly acute; exterior borders slightly convex, extremely oblique; first and second inferior veins contiguous at the base; third very near the second; fourth remote from the third; hind wings whitish cinereous, slightly hyaline; veins and fringe slightly yellowish.

E. elagans Str.

1873—Stretch, Zyg. & Bomb., 189. pl 8, f. 6, Euchaeles.

1875—Butler, Cist. Ent., IL., 37, Echhaetes.

1876—Stretch, Wheeler's Rept. Surv., west 100 mer., V., 797, pl. 40 of 5 and 6, Euchaetes.

Length of body four lines; expanse of wings eight to nine lines.

Head white, eyes black, labial palpi recurved; first joint large and white; lower half of second joint white; upper brown, with white tip; antennæ filiform ringed light brown and black.

In the present paper I have attempted to bring together all the FoodHabits of North American Rhynchophora (except the Scolytidæ) that have been placed on record in the various entomological publications, with the addition of my personal observations on the subject.

Eugnamptus collaris and E. angustatus I have found plentifully upon the foliage of hickory and butternut trees.

The typical genus of the family—a general favorite with collectors and the source of a good deal of worry and uncertainty to describers. I have seen very large series of specimens of many species, and have seen nearly all the species. From a rather careful study of the species I can see no reason why they should not be as easily recognizable or limited as those of any other Lepidopterous genus—indeed, the problem strikes, me as a remarkably easy one, the key to which lies in the fact that no amount of obsolescence of maculation authorizes a species, while change of pattern can be easily detected even in speciments with the markings much broken.

The Locality.—Laggan is a telegraph station of the Canadian Pacific Railway, 956 miles west of Winnipeg as the railway runs, and six miles east of the British Columbia eastern boundary. A mile west of Laggan the railway leaves the Bow River Valley, and turns more directly west into the valley of Noore's Creek to cross the central range of the Rocky Mountains, the summit of the pass being six miles from Laggan.

Cossus Brucei, nov. spec.

Expanse, male 2.50, female 3.00 inches.

Ground color, very pale gray, almost white, no dusky shading over the wing. Fore wings crossed by a great number of fine black lines. In the male none of these form reticulations except a few along the basal half of the internal vein and near the outer margin. The female has a few more of the reticulations in the outer third of the wing. On the male one line more prominent than the rest crosses the wing through the middle from the costa to the posterior margin at the origin of the fourth median vein, forming a straight line.