I repeat here, for the benefit of American readers, the descriptions of two abberations, given by me originally in the pages of the Insekten Börse, 1920.

Samia Californica, ab. parvimacula—The male specimen is of a lighter red than usual, and the lunate discal spots are so reduced on all four wings as to appear half the usual size. They are, in fact, narrow, and only about 5 mm. in length, squarish in form. The antennæ are greatly reduced, the usual length being about 20 mm., while here they are only about 14 to 15 mm., and the pectinations appear to be proportionately reduced. The expanse is normal, about 95 mm., but at first sight the specimen suggests a different species.

In Dr. Dyar's recent very full and careful List of North American Noctuids, Wash. Cat., pp. 98–247, are a few errors which I would briefly point out in this journal. They have mostly arisen from a neglect of a couple of papers in Can. Ent., and one in Proc. Am. Phil. Soc., 1895, as well as from a two literal following of Prof. Smith's Washington list. With regard to the general sequence of the order adopted, I have given that preferred by myself in these pages, and can only repeat here that the Noctuid series (Lithosia—Noctua) affords a parallel to that of the blues and skippers in the butterflies, and that I should place them below the series Bombyx, Lachneis—Geometra, disturbing as little as possible the older classifications.

Nisoniades Llano, n.sp.

Expanse about one inch. Primaries with inner to two-thirds black, marked by a triangular brown patch near base, resting on internal margin; a large similarly-coloured patch at outer end of cell, touching the costa, and bordered by a pale-brown line, which, starting from the costa about one-third of the distance from the apex, curves outward opposite the discal cell, and runs diagonally across to about the middle of the inner margin, and is twinned at its lower extremity by a similar line, which precedes it, and extends from inner margin to just across the median vein.

As I was sitting in Victoria Park, London, Ont., on one of the early days of August, 1902, a sharp click on my straw hat indicated to me that a beetle had been suddenly arrested in its erratic flight. I took off my hat and found thereon a longhorn, with the familiar outline and ornamentation of the Clytus group. But there was something about it that seemed unusual to me, and the more I looked at it the more I was convinced of its novelty. So I secured it, killed and mounted it, and, as opportunity presented itself, endeavoured to determine it, but could find nothing with which it would correspond, and the books afforded me no relief. Having occasion to require the assistance of Mr. W. H. Harrington, Ottawa, upon some B.C. beetles, I sent my unique in order to secure his verdict upon it.