(1) Asthichus arizonensis n. sp.

♂. Length .04 inch. Steel blue, finely scaly, with a slight metallic tinge on thorax; the knees and tarsi white. Antennæ dark blue, the funicle joints excised, pedunculated, with whorls of very long hairs. Wings hyaline; veins pale, the marginal vein very long.

Hab.—Arizona.

Egg.—Diameter .04 inch, low conoidal, a prominent bulging ridge found the base of one half of a hundredth of an inch on each side, so that inside of this the egg is .03 inch; striated with 38 prominent longitudinal striæ, of which 12 reach the small micropyle, shallow transverse striæ; apex small, not depressed. Color dull, pale, brownish olive. Duration of this period not known, but at least 194 days.

In my article with the above heading, to which my friend Mr. J. B. Smith takes exception, I at once confess that an error occurs, and that the title should have been new to “our lists” and not to “our fauna.” Mr. Smith wrote me a day or two after the publication of the paper, and I at once replied that I should have used the word “lists” in the place of “fauna.” I am therefore somewhat surprised that in his printed remarks he did not allude to the correction 'I had personally made, but that he should take me to task after receiving my letter, and charge me with adding the species mentioned to our “fauna,” when I had disclaimed the meaning he attributes to me.

Elsewhere I have ventured to call attention to the interesting chapter in Mr. Scudder's book on Butterflies, in which the theory as to the primitive pattern of ornamentation is given. By this we are told that the complex patterns, the seemingly chiselled lines and the eye-like spots, arose from simple transverse shade bands running parallel to the outer margins of the wings themselves. Such bands we yet find on the wings of many Owlet Moths.

The Lepidoptera of Ceylon, by F. Moore, F.Z.S., Vol. I., (published under the special patronage of the Government of Ceylon) London, L., Reeve ' Co., 1880–81. 4°.

The butterflies of the East India region apper to be now in a fair way of receiving their due share of attention. We have already called attention to Distant's invaluable work on the Malayan butteflies, and to the handbook to the butteflies of India and Burmah, by Marshall and De Nicéville. On many accounts neither ofthese is so important as the earlier work on the Lepidoptera of Ceylon by Frederick Moore, Which we desire to introduce to the readers of the Canadian Entomologist, principally on account of the very considerable accession to our knowledge of the eariler stages of eastern butterflies which is here given in the plates, and also to draw attention to the notes on the natural history of the insects given by Dr. Thwantes, which are emboided in the text.

Egg.—Fusiform, thick in the middle and tapering to a small rounded summit marked by about sixteen longitudinal ribs, which are low, narrow, flat and crossed by a few fine ridges. Color yellow-brown. Duration about fifteen days.

Young Larva.—About .8 inch in length, cylindrical, slender; shape like the other Arzamas. Color pale green, with a few long hairs proceeding backwards. Duration eighteen to twenty days.