The season of warm days, flowers and butterflies is over now, and the look-out is cold, bleak and bare. Apparently there is little for the scientific lover of nature to do in the way of collections at this time of year ; such, however, is far from being actually the case, as all who have collected will testify.

Catocala ultronia.

In the genus Catocala is included a number of very beautiful moths, many of them of large size, and restricted in their distribution to the northern portions of America. Most of them have the hind wings red, banded with black, and hence have received the common appellation of “Red under-wings.”

From 1868 till 1876 I spent from six to eight weeks of the summer on Cape Elizabeth, near Portland, Me., the visits extending from July 14th or 16th to Sept. 5th or 8th, and the following list of Diurnal Lepidoptera is compiled from my diaries :

1. Papilio asterias F. Formerly somewhat common, latterly very scarce ; July and August.

EGG.—Conical, the base ronnded; marked by 8 or 9 vertical ribs, which near the base are depressed, but on upper third are considerably elevated, increase gradually in prominence and terminate abruptly around a small depression at summit ; these ribs are compressed and their sides are cut by grooves perpendicular to the surface of the egg; the spaces between them crossed by many fine striæ ; color green. Duration of this stage 5 days.

Several times during the last of August and the fore part of September, while working in my garden, I found a caterpillar that without the use of the lens was green with a white stripe on each side. A more minute description would be as follows :

Length when full grown, 1.25 inches, the shape of the body very much like that of A. saucia.

Chilo crambidoides, n. s.

A large stout species with the aspect of Crambus. Fore wings pale ochre with two parallel curved, dusky, interrupted extra mesial lines ; a row of terminal black separated dots ; fringes concolorous. Hind wings pure white, with white fringes. Head and thorax pale ochre. Beneath very pale ; the veins conspicuous.