Papilio turnus, ♀, Linn.—I received a curious example of a ♀ P. turnus, which has the outer margin greatly produced towards the apex of the primaries; the secondaries are more rounded and not so elongate as in the typical form; and the black discal bars are broader and more suffused.

My last paper dealt chiefly with Ottawa sawflies, and in the present article I venture to describe a few Western species which have been for some time in my collection, and which seen to be unnamed. Synoptic tables are added as an aid to collectors of these insects.

Some years ago I received from the Rev. G. W. Taylor, of Victoria, Vancouver Island, a specimen of the Mottled Umber Moth. This had been named by the Rev. G. D. Hulst, of Brooklyn, and was, I believe, the first speciment of the species recorded as taken in America. Later, in 1889, two specimens were forwarded from the same place by Mr. W. H. Danby.

During my sojourn in Florida, 1892–93, I happened to collect some small insects, Collembola, of the family Lipuridæ. As I suppose very little, if anything, is known about the representatives of this group from that country, I presume every little contribution to the knowledge must be of a certain interest, and I thus take the liberty of writing you this letter.

1. Athysanus Anthracinus, n. sp.

Head shorter and more rounded before than in plutonius, closely punctured. Vertex ⅓ longer on the middle than next the eye, sloping and strongly rounded to the base of the front, median carina very feeble; ocelli and two dots on the hind margin fulvous.

I have observed the egg laying of the following species of Lepidoptera in the vicinity of the Yosemite Valley, California.:-

Danais archippus.—Oviposits on the tender leaves near the flower bud of Gomphocarpus cordifolius.

Argynnis epithore.On the underside of the leaves of Viola ocellata.

Argynnis egleis (Highland variety).—On pine burrs, pine leaves, sticks and stones, on the shaded side and as far underneath as is possible for the ♀ to get.

½. Length, 7.5 mm.; ovipositor, 7 mm. Black, polished; with orbital lines from occiput to middle of eyes in front, cheeks, clypeus, mandibles except tip, palpi, gula, cuneiform lines on mesonotum, tegulæ, spot in front, lines beneath extending irregularly back to posterior coxæ, sides of scutellum, line on lower pleauræ between anterior and middle coxæ, prosternum, anterior coxæ, middle and posterior coxæ except a black dash above and large spot inside, all the trochanters except black base, posterior tibiæ, posterior tibiæ except black annulus near base and black extremity, and tips of the abdominal segments beyond the first, yellowish-white. Remainder of legs fulvous, with a black spot at the base of all the femora and an annulus near the tip of the posterior femora; tarsi dusky.

A fleshy leaf-tissue gall was found on terminal twigs of Populus Monilifera(?) June 18, 1892, a few miles to the north of Ojo Caliente, in Southern Socorro county, New Mexico. This gall is somewhat similar in method of formation to one that has been found on Rhus microphylla, which possesses a cock's-comb-like appearnce.

After a journey of ten miles over snow and snowbanks from four to eight feet deep, I arrived in the latter part of June, on my summer and fall collecting ground on the Fuloumne Meadows, which lie on the edge of the area wherein the high Sierra species of Lepidoptera are most numerous. The Paranassius was one of the first I began to collect, as the butterflies had just commenced to issue, and were flying in the grassy and shaded timber-covered portions of a rocky side hill slope.

Prof. Smith says that he uses the name Xylina in preference to Lithophane, because both are catalogue names and Xylina has priority, since the Verzeichniss was not published until 1818 at least. My argument is, that Ochsenheimer took the name Xylena from Hübner's which is not a Lithophane, but a Hadena.

In the Canadian Entomologist, Vol. 26, page 184, the Rev. Thomas W. Fyles described a moth as new under the name of “Botysurticaloides.” Mr. Fyles has been so kind as to lend me his type for examination, and it proves to be identical with Metrea ostreonalis, described by Grote in “Papilio,” Vol. 2 p. 73, where he states that the type was taken by Mr. L. W. Goodell, in Amherst, Mass., and that he specimen, and also another one taken in Bangorm, Maine, by Mr. Fred. Eddy.

For those interested in teratology I wish to record three instances of malformations of the antennæ of Coleoptera. The beetles presenting these have been kindly given to me by Mr. W. Simpson, an energetic and observant yound collector of this city.

The male differs little from the female in colour (specimens from Indian River, Fla., Dr. Wittfeld); the described differences being all variations. The male clypeus is often black at base and in middle.

Corunna is the capitl of Shiawassee County, in the central part of the Lower Peninsula, and approximately in 43° nort latitude. The town is situated on the Shiawassee River, which traverses the country and enters the Saginaw, as a chief branch.

The eggs are sub-globular, between that and sub-quadrate, shaped much like Luna and its allies; length, .06 inch; width, .06 inch, by .05 inch in height, smooth the apex flattened, but the base rounded. Colour, olive gree; those on one side of the twig, red tinted. They werr placed round a twig of food plant (willow) with one of the long ways across the twig. They were from California, and where deposited about the last of October. As they hatched the middle of the following April, this would give six months as the duration of this period.

Last December Mr. H. J. Elwes gave a revision of the genus Chionobas in Trans. Ent. Soc., London, to which Mr. W. H. Edwards, in the March number of the Can. Ent., gives “notes” or rather exceptions, in which he still contends that Gigas, Californica and Iduna are three distinct species, but now allows Nevadensis, which he formerly considered also to be distinct, to be a synonym of one of these, but does not know of which Elwes has placed these four or one species, just as they are in the “Synonymical Catalogue” issued by me in 1878, nor can I understand how anyone can imagine there is more than one species under the four names; there is absolutely no point by which any of the examples can be separated, whether they come from California, Washington, Oregon or elsewhere; were they to be mixed indiscriminately, without locality labels, no one could say from whence came this or that exmaple, or which was this or that so-called species.

In the Ent. Am.,1889, pp. 33–34, is a note by Mr. T. D. A. Cockerell, F.Z.S., “On the origin of the genus Anthocharis, Bdv., (= Euchloë, Hb.),” and from his remarks on p.34, it would appear that the larva of Pieris protodice and that of Anthocharis ausonides are practically identical, Mr. Cockerell's assumption being based on a letter received from Mr. W. H. Edwards.

I little thought when I wrote my short note (ante pp. 47–48) that the American speceis of Anthocharidi were in such a muddle as Mr. Dyar has quickly proved them to be. It will be very necessary to go much further now with the question, and I would suggest that those who have the opportunity should, during this season if possible, and next season if it be now too late, examine critically and make drawings of the eggs, larvæ and pupæ of the Anthocharids in question and publish them in the Candian Entomologist, where they can be examined by British workers and compared with European speices.

The beetles of this family are more characteristic of Southern latitudes than of cold climes like Canada; of about six hundred species known from America, north of Mexico, only ninety-six are recorded from the Provinces whch form the subject of the present paper. From all other families they may at once be known by the antennæ, terminating in a club composed of lamellæ or plates, which are capable of close opposition or of separation at the will of the insect.