I wish to make a contribution to the literature of the subject of “egg dropping,” and place on record in an entomological journal an observation I made nine years ago. I do this with the object of calling general attention to this subject, which I think an interesting one, and in hope that lepidopterists may be on the look out for this method of ovidpositing in all the species of the genus.

The monograph of this genus, published by Handlirsch,* necessitated the working-up of the unidentified species in the collectin of the American Entomological Society. This author has merged several genera into Gorytes, viz., Euspongus, Hoplisus, etc. I have followed him, as several of the species described herein belong to what was once the genus Hoplisus. There are serveal other new species contained in the Society's collection, represented by single specimens only.

The Lepidopterous family to which these notes pertain is a homogeneous and distinct one, clearly and sufficiently separated from other families. The larvæ, so far as known, are borers in roots, stems, branches, or excrescences of trees, shrubs or annuals, yet all strictly retain the structure and appearance of the young of their order. Most of them pass the winter buried in the food plant.

The nots of this species by Dr. Kellicott, in the February number of the Canadian Entomologist, induce me to place on recod some of the observations made by me during the past year and used in my annual report; and also to call attention to very old record that in part answers the question—Is the species double-brooded?

We have much pleasure in recording that on the 20th of April last the Degree of “Doctor Philosophiæ Materialis” was conferred (honoris causa) upon Baron Charles Robert Osten Sacken, by the University of Heidelberg. This recognition of an Entomologist who as done such eminent service in North America will, we are sure, be very gratifying to our readers.

Prof. C. H. Fernald, of Amherst, Mass., is at work on a manual of the Microlepidoptera of North America, a work for which his studies of the last twenty years have admirably fitted him. He has made two trips to Europe for the purpose of studying the types of our Micros in the European museusms, and has studied all the prominent collections in this country.

A. Flora, n. sp.

♂, expanse 1.40–1.75. White. Forewings blackish at base; many black scales along costa; bar broad, at costa reaching inwards, and at the middle with an angle outwards into the orange, with a broadening, vaguely-edged stripe connecting it to the margin near inner angle; orange patch very large, deep reddish coloured, the colour extending to costa and also to outer margin near the angle; apical margin black with obtuse serrations inside, the lower end becoming maculate of merely of roundish spots in the edge of teh orange patch; fringe whie and black.

In the “West American Scientist” for January, 1891, I gave a brief description of Rhaphiomidas acton n. sp. comparing it with the only other described species R. episcopus O.S. The description was drawn from a single male speciment now in the National Museum at Washington, but during the past season I was fortunate enough to capture four additional specimens of this species, three males and a female, all of them having been taken on the wing while hovering over flowers in the hottest part of the day, the time being the first week in July. The possession of these specimens permits me to make a few corrections to my publihsed description.

In the note on the post-embryonic larvæ of the Pea and Bean Weevils, published in the August number of the Canadian Entomologist, (p. 185). I have stated that the eggs of the Bean Weevil “are primarily laid upon the bean pod in the field, but chiefly, if not entirely, upon those which are already matured and ripening.” This statement was based upon the finding of the eggs upon more mature bean pods in years gone by, and represents the current belief hitherto held. A more careful examination of the eggs thus found the present season, after the note above referred to had been sent to the editor, showed that they did not entirely agree with the eggs of the Bean Weevil as laid on stored beans, the difference being sufficient to justify a doubt as to the former being those of the ordinary Bean Weevil, and to cause me to look into the matter more fully, which I have done in my own garden the past summer.

Mr. S. H. Scudder, in his “Butterflies of Eastern U.S.” states that “Feniseca Tarquinius” has never been captured east of the Connecticut Valley in Massachusetts. Other writers mention it as rare in New England. It may interest some of your readers to know that I found it very commonon the Glen Road near Jackson, N.H., in the second week in June. I also found a specimen on a window of the Boston Athletic Club, which seems a strange place for it. The building is on new made land, nowhere near any alder growht, in fact, in the ciy. I have collected a number of years in the suburbs of Boston, but have never seen a specimen.

While I recognize the fact that each one of us has a right to make lists of insects to suit himself, and others are not obliged to follow them, errors of identity are not a matter of opinion, and are therefore subject to criticsm. With this view wish I to point out a few errors in the genus Catocala in Prof. John B. Smith's new “List of Lepidoptera.” First, var. Virens, French, is not a variety of Cordelia, Hy. Edw., but of Amasia; and Cordelia is not the one figured by Dr. Strecker, pl. 9, p.12.