This paper is not by any means intended to be a full treatment of the species of the genus Apantesis, occurring in Canada. There is so much yet to be learned about many of the forms that the preparation of such an article is still quite impossible. The intention, therefore, is merely to present the rather incomplete notes we have made at Ottawa, with the hope that they may be of some use to students who are, or who may become, interested in these insects, and also that it may be seen at a glance what work has been done on some of the species, as well as what is still lacking with regard to others. There is considerable doubt as to the validity of some of the species of this genus, and these doubts as to the validity of some of the species of this genus, and these doubts can only be dispelled by careful and extensive breeding from the egg, taking accurate notes of the larvæ (in their different stages), the pupæ, etc. Large series of many of the so-called species will have to be bred before definite knowledge can be acquired.

February 12th (Lincoln's Birthday), of this year, was unusually warm and spring-like. The temperature rose as high as 52°, and the clear sky and little wind made it a joy to be out in the open, in the sunshine.

I went to Staten Island that day, with the intention of working up some Orthoptera with Mr. W. T. Davis, but the feel of spring in the air was irresistible, and as I was anxious to secure aquatic Hemiptera as early in the season as possible, we went by trolley to some woodland ponds near Richmond. The fields were very wet on the way, but hopping among the dry leaves were yound grasshoppers, emerged from their winter's sleep. Some Diptera also were hiding among them, and they were quite active when disturbed.

Leconte and Horn, in their “Classification,” say of this beetle: “It is of such extreme rarity as to have been by but few entomologists.” It was with considerable interest, therefore, that I captured my first specimen one March afternoon in 1894. I came upon Æ. debilis on the under side of a stone. From Leconte'e description I felt prety sure that my identification was correct, and it was subsequently confirmed by Dr.Fletcher, or Ottawa. Leconte says the beetle is black, but he had probably seen only dried specimens. Freshly-taken specimens show a distinctly green tinge. The insect is about .15inch long, and in general shape suggests a small carabid.

The first paper of this series is in the January number of this Journal (pp. 9–14); the second is in the April issue of the Journal of the New York Entomological Society. The present instalment deals chiefly with species found in the Western Provinces of British America and a few others that are likely to occur there. The determination of a new species of Rancora from Calgary and Manitoba makes some general remarks on that genus timely. There is a number of excellent collectors now hard at work on th Noctuid fauna of that general region an extending westward to Vancouver, whose work deserves the greatest praise and to whose efforts is due the development of a totally new faunal region for this family of moths.

I have just noticed Prof. Webster's note an the tomb of Thomas Say, and it may be of interest to your readers to know that I have recently visited New Harmony, Ind., and met Mr. John Crobin, the owner of the old Maclure home, where stands the tomb of the father of American descriptive entomology. Mr. Corbin, as Prof. Webster states, is much interested in the proper preservation of this tomb, and is much interested also in the history of Thomas Say. In fact, I found many people in the little village of New Harmony who knew about Say, and who were distinctly of the opinion that his residence in their village sheds lustre on its history. The village library is an admirable one, housed in a beautiful building, and among the treasures of the library are certain of Say's manuscripts, among others, one written upon the day of his death.

In my “Descent of the Pierids,” Jan., 1900, I have used Trifurcula, Stand., Iris., VII., 56, for a genus of Andean Pierids, but this name is preoccupied in the Lepidoptera by Zeller, 1848, Staud. & Rebel, Cat. II., p. 221.

Staudinger states (l. c.) thate he had at first named the genus Piercolias, so this name though open to criticism, should be used for the Pierid genus with the type of huanaco, Staud. The morphological value of the neurational character of the primaries of Piercolias, which led Staudinger to choose the name Trifurcula, does not seem to have been apperciated by him. The gradual progress of R2 towards the apices, and of M1 towards the Radius, brings these branchlets in juxtaposition.

In reply to the query suggested by Prof. Grote, in the April number of the Entomologist (page 110), with reference to the spinning methods of Telea, I have discussed the subject with Dr. Fletcher, whose opinion is that only some of the cocoons are so suspended, but recent search has decided me that in locality this is the case with the majority.

On April 2nd I found two cocoons on a small willow bush, one suspended, with the leaves firmly attached to the stem; the other had been spun between the overhanging sides of a large leaf that had fallen across the limb, thus forming a complete conopy, but the cocoon was firmly fastened to the twig with a lot of silk. Diligent search amongst the leaves on the ground failed to reveal any fallen cocoons.