In company with a party of botanists and others, the wirter spent the summer of 1905 in the Selkirk Mountains of British Columbia, much of the time in scientifically unexplored parts of that beautiful range. The Selkirks occupy the major part of teh Kootenay district of south-eastern British Columbia. It will be seen by reference to a map that they are bounded on practically all sides by the Columbia and Kootenay Rivers and the long and narrow Kootenay Lake.

Since the printing of the Tenth Annual Report of the Minnesota Entomologist in December, 1905, about 75 additional species of Diptera captured in that State have been named, representing the following families:

Agromyzidæ, Anthomidæ, Bibionidæ, Cecidomyidæ, Chiromonidæ, Culicidæ, Dolichopodidæ, Drosophilidæ, Empidæ, Ephydrid0, Geomyzidæ, Helomyzidæ, Leptidæ, Lonchopteridæ, Muscidæ, Mycetophilidæ, Ortalidæ, Oscinidæ, Pipunculidæ, Psilidæ, Sapromyzidæ, Scatophagidæ, Sciomyzidæ, Sespsidæ, Simuliidæ, Syrphidæ, Tachinidæ, Trypetidæ.

My friend, Prof. T.D.A. Cockerell, has indicated some omissions in the above Catalogue, which I have verified. Those marked * are not recorded in the “Zoological Record,” and I had not seen the works fill Prof. Cockerell called my attention to them.

Cydia grindeliana, sp. nov.—Antennæ blackish brown, with short greenish cilia. Labial palpi light greenish yellow, tipped with black. Head and thorax light greenish yellow. Fore wings light straw-coloured, overlaid and streaked with light greenish yellow, and in some specimens with light olive. Costal edge from base to apex with short black and silvery-white strigulæ. Ocellus light shining yellow, edged anteriorly and posterioly by narrow perpendicular silvery-metallic lines, and containing three short black dashes, two on the anterior margin and one of the apical margin; above this is a small area, thickly mottled with dark brown scales, and the whole is surronded by a narrow silvery line.

Recurvaria pinella, new species.—Antennæ dark purple, with silver-white annulations. Second joint of labial palpi black, with apex and a large spot on the inner side silvery white; terminal joint white, with a narrow black annulation on basal half. Face white, indescent, sprinkled with darker scales. Vertex and thorax dark purple. Fore wings dark purple, sparsely sprinkled with lighter scales. From basal fourth of costa to basal third of the dorsal edge is a thin, very indistinct and ill-defined oblique white fascia.

Salganea humeralis, new species.— Size medium. General colour black, the under surface of the legs and of the body, except the last abdominal segment, or subgenital plate, and the mouth, except the mandibles, and also the vertex, reddish. The base of the elytra in the anal field is also tinted with reddish. Antenna♀ dark, hairy. Wings and elytra mostly missing. Anterior femora unarmed.

Occaionally, after a mild day or two in winter, we see a newspaper paragraph headed “Remarkable Appearance of a Butterfly.” From the tone of the article we usually judge that the writer had been lost in astonishment, at what he regarded as a strange phenomenon. This short paper will rob such appearances of their mystery.