Pyrameis cardui.—Larva found feeding on thistle, June 15th, fullgrown. Length, 1¼ to 1⅜ inches.

Head black, reddish in some specimens, above sprinkled with fine whitish hairs, and a few small black tubercles.

Body above greyish-brown, variegated with yellow and black. Second, third, fourth, fifth, and terminal segments black, with many whitish dots. A broken dorsal stripe, white anteriorly; yellow from fifth to terminal segments; second segment without spines, but covered with fine whitish hairs; third and fourth segments have four spines each ; the others have seven, excepting tbe terminal ones, which have two pairs, one placed behind the other.

In our last notes we mentioned the names of various species of moths that, on various grounds, are to be dropped from our list of Canadian Lepidoptera ; we now proceed to mention those that are to be added to the list, as having been captured or determined since its publication in 1865. These, of course, are only what have come under our own notice, but we have no doubt that the number might be largely increased by our readers, notwithstanding that the last two years have been so peculiarly unfavourable to the collectors of Lepidoptera in this country.

1. Banchus Flavescens.— ♂ . Pale yellow ; a bilobed mark behind antennæ, extending between them downward upon middle of face, band across vertex from eye to eye, covering ocelli, posterior margin of occiput, maxillary palpi, two apical joints of labial palpi, antennæ above, stripe on middle of mesothorax. dilated anteriorly, a stripe on each side over the wings, basal suture of scutellum, base of metathorax, broader laterally, spot on each side of pleura posteriorly, posterior coxæ within, their femora beneath, apex of their tibiæ and a broad band at base of four basal segments of abdomen, black; antennæ longer than body, slender at tips ; scutellum with an acute dusky spine ; wings hyaline, faintly yellowish, nervures brown, stigma and costa pale honey-yellow; posterior coxæ and femora stained with ferruginous; abdomen shining, short, apex broad, truncate and compressed. Length five lines.

Two lists of Canadian Lepidoptera have been published by our Entomological Society; the first one, prepared by Mr. W. Saunders and issued in 1864, contained the names of all the Butterflies, Sphinges, and Bombyces then known to inhabit this country; the next year a second list, prepared by ourselves, was issued, containing the names of species in the remaining families of moths, and some additions to the former list. Since then a number of new species have been captured in this country, whose names may now be added to our lists; great changes have also been made in the generic nomenclature of others, and in some cases the very species has been proved to be erroneous and to require correction.

Very nearly a year has now gone by since the Canadian Entomologist was ushered into existence, and it has at length safely arrived at the close of its first volume. Of infantile dimensions it has crawled along through the months of babyhood, at times putting forth a little more strength and marks of growth, until now it feels able to stand upon its feet and assert its intention of living and growing, even though it may but toddle along, for a little time longer. Of course with an increase of size, it will display an enlarged appetite, not only for scientific and literary contribution, but also for the baser, but by no means less essential, sustenance of dollars and cents.

HesPeria mystic, Edw.–Two eggs were deposited by a beaten female in a pill box, on the 20th of June, colour pale yellowish green: strongly convex above, flattened below, and depressed or slightly concave in the centre of the flattened portion. The surface appears smooth under a magnifying power of forty.five diameters, whereas in those of Hobomok, reticulations are plainly seen under a power of twenty. The egg of Mystic appears faintly reticulate under a power of eighty diameters. One specimen produced the larva on the 28th, the other on the 29th.

In my last paper were concluded all the observations I have at present to publish, regarding the rearing of butterflies from the egg. Before passing on to relate some experiments of a similar character with moths, I propose to give what further notes I have made in this family from captured larvæ, partially or full grown.

Several years ago it occurred to me that a knowledge of the earlier stages in the lives of some of our Diurnal Lepidoptera might possibly be arrived at by obtaining eggs from impregnated females in captivity. My experiments began with the Hesperidæ as offering the greatest probability of success. As many females as could be procured (beaten ones preferred, as the likelihood of their impregnation was greater) were confined in separate boxes some with glass tops admitting right. others darkened. My success was greater than I had anticipated, but none attended the use of boxes where much light was admitted. whether the failure in the latter case was really due to the admission of light, I am not prepared to say ; the number of glass-covered boxes used was not proportionally large nor was their use long continued.

While looking over some insects in Hamilton a few days since collected by Miss Mills, daughter of Wm. H. Mills, EsQ., I was delighted at finding a specimen of Libythea bachmani, Kirtland, which is probably a variety of L. motya, Boisd. It was almost entire, though somewhat beaten. The young lady had taken it on the beach at Hamilton early in August. She found it settled on the sand, and it seemed at first partially torpid, but when captured used its wings freely in trying to escape. It is a very peculiar insect, with very long palpi. The following is a description of it.

To your readers who study Hymenoptera, it may be interesting to learn something of the economy of a little Bee which was found at Quebec by Mr. N. H. Cowdry, on the 11th April, 1865. The wood cut represents tops of raspberry canes, the pith of which was bored into, and emptied out by the parent Bee. 1. Orifice which was closed with some kind of vegetable substance. 2. Egg* of Bee attached to Pollen. 3. Pollen, all of which, under the microscope, appeared to have the same form and color (yellow), evidently mixed with honey.

On the 5th of July, a friend brought me a very remarkable Larva that he found in a field the previous evening, and which had attracted his attention by the light it emitted. When alive it was about an inch and a half in length, and 0.25 inch in width across the middle, its general appearance being long and narrow; it is flattened above, and composed of twelve segments (exclusive of the head); each segment is broad and cut squarely, and overlaps the following one, the posterior angles being a little acute ; the anterior segment is gradually narrowed in front and rectilineally truncate, forming a shield to the head which is retractile within it ; each of the first three segments has a pair of claw-like legs attached to it beneath. The general colour of the insect is a dark drab, the posterior angles of each segment, the softer connecting portion between the segments, and the under side of the body being much paler, and of a somewhat dirty yellow hue; on each side there is a deeply impressed line in which the spiracles are situated.

The notice in our last number of Mr. Scudder's promised work on New England Butterflies, has already brought many welcome responses. A number of living butterflies have been sent in cotton-wool, and although a day upon their journey, were received alive and in good condition; those who live near Boston might try this method, but we think that most persons would be interested in raising the larvæ themselves.

During the summer of 1866 we found ourselves among those who were trying to escape the hot weather of July by a trip to the Saguenay. The few hasty notes of insects taken during this journey must necessarily be very imperfect, since a day or two at most was all the time that could be devoted to any one locality.

Being recently on a visit to this pretty little frontier town, I devoted a few hours to my friends the resident Coleoptera and Lepidoptera, and well indeed were my labors rewarded, as the sequel will show. The season was rather advanced for Lepidoptera, but there must have been an enormous supply of their larvæ, for I noticed the fatal results of their “grubbing” powers on many of the surrounding trees; oaks, maples, hickory and walnut in particular, were filled with larvæ of Dryocampa senatoria, D. stigma, D. rubicunda, Halesidota caryæ, H. tesselaris, and a variety of species unknown to me by name, though we have taken several similar ones near London. but have failed to rear them.