The paper by Mr. W. H. Edwards in the March number of the Canadian Entomologist brought back to me vividly my collecting days in the Catskills, and as I have also taken arthemis, proserpina and ursula, perhaps my experiences may not be entirely uninteresting. It was sixteen years ago that I set out for a two weeks' tramp in the mountains, and as it was my first experience with them, the memory of that trip is yet more distinct than of many subsequent excursions.

Last year (1890) I spent the months of July and August at Inverness—a saimon-canning station at the mouth of the River Skeena, and paid what attention I could spare to the beetles of the locality, a list of which I give below. For the identification of my specimens I am indebted to the courtesy of the British Museum authorities at South Kensington.

The Entomological Club has reason to congratulate itself upon the favourable conditions under which it meets. We are here in our national capital, a city in which every American feels a pride, and the beauty of which can but favour our enjoyment. We are in the centre of entomological activity for the United States—and I am tempted to say for the world, for I believe we should have to make diligent search to find any community where so many skilfull entomologists are devoting their entire time to entomological problems.

The moths bred from the larvæ here described were kindly determined for me by Prof. J.B. Smith.

Tœniocampa alia, Guen.

Stage I.—Head shiny, pale yellow; mouth orange; ocelli black; width, .3 mm. The abdominal feet are well developed only on joints 9, 10 and 13, so the larva walks like a Geometrid. Body whitish, appearing green from the food within, with many black, piliferous dots. Joint 12 is a little enlarged; cervical shield coloured like the head, but paler, Length, 4 mm. This larva was found May 3.

Cerura modesta, n. sp.

Male.—Front and vertex nearly white. Collar a little darker, tinged with a faint creamy yellowish-brown. Thorax dark stee-blue, almost black, with metallic purplish reflections, the orange scales forming so marked a feature in other species either entirely absent of with but a faint trace of their presence. Patagia concolorous with thorax, edged outwardly with white. Abdomen black above, or nearly so, the segments bordered behind with pale cinereous, thickly clothed with long fine white hairs, whitish beneath.

Xorides caryœ, n. sp.

Female.—Length 11 to 16 mm. Black with yellowish-white markings. Head swollen, interior orbits, interrupted opposite antennæ punctured, between antennæ and ocelli polished; antennæ slender black. Thorax with the pectus and pleuræ finely punctate, polished; disc of mesothorax transversely rugulose; metathorax rounded, faintly sulcate medially and rugosely punctured and aciculated; sides of prothorax, two lines on mesothorax, two spots, sometimes confluent, on scutellum, the post-scutellum, the tegulæ and a broad stripe of pleura, contined on middle coxa, yellow-whitel legs, including coxæ, pale rufous or honey-yellow, anterior ones paler, the anterior coxæ stripe on middle coxæ outwardly, second joint of trochanters and the knees yellow, tibiæ and tarsi piceous or blackish, the former with a pale line within; wings hyaline, nervures and stigma black.

A trifle more than two years ago the writer first entertained the idea of preparing a synopsis of the Orthoptera of Nebraska, with the intention of publishing it as a special bulletin from the Agricultural Experiment Station. With that end in view, work was immediately begun; and in the course of a few months the greater portion of the manuscript was ready for the printer. At this time other matters that were considered of more immediate importance came up at the Station, and that of the Orthoptera was laid aside. It has now been lying nearly two years.

In September of last year I discovered the larvæ of a species of Nematus feeding upon a willow introduced from Russia by the late Mr. Charles Gibb. Like others of the genus these larvæ were gregarious and threw up the hinder parts of the body when disturbed. They were full fed and buried themselves on September 24th. The flies appeared in the end of March.

Mr. Dyar's note and Mr. Grote's reply, concerning the identity of the above species with specularis, H. S., may make further notes interesting. Mr. Hy. Edwards informed me two or three years ago that Mr. Grote had redescribed Herrich-Shaeffer's species, and that he had a specimen. I suggested that he should print this note, and he promised to do so in connection with a number of other remarks on Bombycid species.

Argynnis Victoria

Male.—Expands two inches. Upper side pale fulvous, primaries a little obscured next base, secondaries largely, the dark area covering nearly the basal half; the black markings rather heavy; a common black marginal border, narrow on primaries, one-third wider on secondaries; a common series of small submarginal spots, sub-oval on primaries, crescent on secondaries, and on neither wing touching the marginal border; the rounded spots largest on primaries; the discal angular band on same wing heavy, on secondaries light; a bar on arc of cell of primaries, another crossing the cell a little within, a rounded elongated spot depending from subcostal, near middle of cell, and a crescent close to the base; in the submedian interspace an angular cross bar; on secondaries a V shaped spot at end of cells.

In the proceedings of the Entomological Club of the A.A.A.S. at Washington, published in Canadian Entomologist, page 220, it is stated that I mentionded a suspicion that Asopia farinalis fed in clover, and asked if any one present had any knowledge of the matter.

In August, 1886, while visiting in Louisiana, Mo., I made frequent excursions to damp places along a neighboring book in search of butterflies. It was the droughty season, and there were but a few stagnant pools, damp gravel beds, and moist clay slopes at which insects could slake their thirst. At one of the last named places I noticed a great bunch of Coliads (mostly Colias philodice with an occasional Eurytheme), and a few specimens of Pieris rapŒ, which my advance started out put to flight. As a few individuals did not take to wing, but seemed unable to rise though they fluttered violently, my curiosity was aroused and a closer investigation showed the bank and gravel bed below to be strewn with mutilated specimens of Philodice, scores of individuals, detached wings in some cases, in others the head and thorax remained intact.

There is no doubt but that our specimens which go by the above name are referable to the European P. fuliginosa Linn.

Prof. Smith has noticed their superficial resemblane* which amounts to identity. I have compared examples from France with a series from New York and I can find no difference in ornamentation. Neither do they differ structurally. The venation is identical.† The genitalia of the male also are the same within the limits of variation of the species, which appear to be wide. In the specimen form Europe examined the supraanal plate is elongate-triangular, produced to a point concave below slightly curved down and bulging a little laterally at the base.