Palpi dark brown, with a yellowish white annulus around the middle and tip of the second and third joints. Head yellowish white; antennae dark brown, with the extreme tip of the basal joint white. Thorax above and base of the forewings brown: dorsal margin of the forewings, from the base to the ciliae, pale orange yellow, with a broad fascia of the same hue at about the basal fourth, passing across the wing and gradually narrowing to the costa.

I am able to complete the history of M. phaeton, part of which I communicated to the Can. Ent. in Jan'y, 1869, vol. 1, p. 59.

The eggs are laid in large clusters of from 200 to 400 each, upon the under side of leaves of chelone glabra. They are sub-conical, truncated, ribbed on upper half, yellow when laid, but soon turn to crimson. In 19 or 20 days, as Mr. Scudder informs me, they hatch As the eggs found by me (13th June) had been deposited some days, I could not verify that point.

On June 15th, 1874, Mr. Wm. Couper, while collecting on Montreal Mountain, found a larva on Oak, which he kindly gave to me. It appeared fully grown, and was a little over two inches in length. Body onisciform ; general color, gray. Head heart-shaped, strongly bilobed, pale green, with white blotches, twelve short black hairs in front, and near the top of the head there are four small tubercles of a white color, each of which is tipped with a black hair ; head surrounded with a broken border of dark streaks.

Since the original illustration and description of this species, ten years ago, in the Proceedings of the E ntomological Society of Philadelphia, it has not been noticed, except by the late Mr. B. D. Walsh, in the same Proceedings, vol. 5, p. 194-5. I have been since last year indebted to Prof. C. V. Riley for a number of specimens of perspicua, raised from larvæ found on Sumach. It is enough to say that the specimens bear out the specific validity of a form which is perhaps the most easily recognized among the difficult species of this genus.

This species, collected by Mr. G. H. Belfrage, in Bosque Co., Texas, Sept. 16th, differs from T. chrysellus by the broader, more olivaceous basal and median fasciae, narrowly united along the hind margin of the wing. The white fields of the primaries are thus less extended than in its congener. Subterminal line diffusely shaded with olivaceous, as is the terminal margin, leaving a whitish apical space. . Fringes whitish, thorax light olivaceous. Hind wings less purely white, with a terminal olivaceous shading.

A male specimen taken by the late Mr. C. T. Robinson, at Brewster's, N. Y., varies by the fore wings being black, the veins broadly bordered by flesh color. The ordinary triangulate black interspaceal markings have all fused. Hind wings shaded entirely with blackish, none of the usual spots being visible. Beneath as above. Body as in the type.

A single specimen with the palpi broken off. Head pale yellowish tinged with fuscous. Thorax brown, with the apex whitish. Fore wings gray brown, under the lens appearing yellowish white and brown in irregular blotches, with a distinct white spot on the fold at aout the basal fourth, the usual opposite white costal and dorsal spots at the beginning of the ciliae, a small white spot at the apex, and two others at the base of the dorsal ciliae. Ciliae sordid white, with a narrow brown hinder marginal line about their middle.

Mr. Fred. Tepper has just sent me for examination a very interesting pair of insects taken on the sea shore of Long Island, which approach so nearly the type of O. chandleriin my colle ction from the mountains of Colorado, that I cannot separate them specilically, although there are certain differences, v'hich I give below. The capture is the more valuable since the species of Oncocnemis, so far as known, inhabit only the mountains of Europe, Siberia, Colorado and California.