In searching out the boring larvæ of the Noctuid genus Hydræcia,that large and showy species, speciosissima, has continued to prove a decided engima. This great tawny fellow, with its distinctive white spots, must in the early stage leave some flagrant evidence of its whereabouts behind, yet try as we may all efforts seemin vain, and the conclusion was finally reached that Rye could not number this species in its local list. So the few records that Rye could not number this species in its local list. So the few records of its capture are looked up, and the determintion is made to have a trial elsewhere. Tin 1868, Grote and Robinson described this species, together with inquæsita, under the generic term Gortyna (Trans. Am. Soc. I., 342), and relate receiving their types from seekonk, Rhode Island. Knowing the tenacity with which a colony clings to a favourite resort, a couple of days in July, 1900, were taken for a flying trip to that place; the writer believing that should conditions yet remain favourable, the desiderata might still be found.