Platynus reflexus, Lec., and variety a.— This species may be found in the bed of nearly dry hill-side streams and the debris along theri banks, June being the time of its greatest abundance. In Dr. Leconte's synopsis of Platynus (Bull. Brook. Ent. Soc., Il.,) a variety in noted as a, with four elytral punctures, while reflexus has but three—nothing further being stated. This form occurs here, not as an individual variation, but at least as a race, perhaps a species.

Anyone finding the strange-looking insect shown at fig.1 will at once recognize it as the Northern Mole cricket. It is apparently an uncommon insect in Canada, and it is partly to ascertain from the readers of the Canadian Entomologist whether or not this is the case that I am writing these notes upon a specimen which I have had in confinement for some months. I have been trying for years to get living speciments, but only succeeded last autumn when I had a fine female sent to me by Mr. W. W. Hilborn, who had caught it in his garden at Leamington, in Essex County, Ont.

In No. 9–10, Vol. IV., of “Insect Life,” an account was given of the post-embyronic larva of the Bean Weevil, attention being called to some most interesting characteristics of this larva, which is possessed of temporary thoracic legs and some other strctures which admirably serve its locamotive needs until it has entered the bean, when, with a cast of the skin, they are lost and larva assumes the ordinary apodous form of weevil larvæ.

1. An albino male Colias Philodice.

I received this example from Mr. H. E. Wilford, of Batavia, N.Y., last fall. Mr. Scudder, Butt. N.E., p. 1285, says:-“Instances of albinism are confined, so far as we yet know, to the Rhodoceridi” (which term he uses to include Colias, under his name of Eurymus). “and to the female sex.” In colour this male is white, with no tint of yellow; the borders of both wings are of median width, and solid—in all respects like the usual border of the yellow male.

2. Argynnis Oweni, n. sp.

Male—Expands 2.25 inches.

Upper dull side red-fulvous, not much obscured by brown at base; the markings rather heavy, the two marginal lines on both wings more or less confluent. Under side of primaries either yellow-buff from base to the row of ronded spots, the nervules being red-brown, or the interspaces are very ligtly washed with this colour over the buff ground; the subapical patch dark brown with a small imperfectly silvered spot; the five submarginal spots also are of same character; sometimes the silver is wholly wanting.

During the latter part of September, and early in October, 1891, I spent two weeks in London, and most of the time in the entomological rooms of the British Museum. My aim was, primarily, to identify the noctuids described by Walker, and in this I succeeded, the MSS. incorporatig the notes there made being now in the hands of the printer. So large is the material in this magnificent collection, that I found opportunity for only a very hasty glace at other families of the Heterocera, and on a few species only I made brief notes.

In a foot note to his paper on “The Butterflies of Laggan” (Can Ent., XXII., 129), Mr. Bean says: “I hope none of my younger readers entertain the absurd mediæval superstition that hibernating caterpillars pass the winter in a frozen condition. In succesful hibernation they do not get near to such a condition; but if they do absolutely freeze, then are they undone caterpillars.

Loewia ruficornis, n. sp., ♂.

Eyes cinnamon brown; frontal vitta brown, much narrowed posteriorly front at narrowest point one-half its width at vertex; sides of front, sides of face and facial depression black, thinly silvery-pollinose; cheeks blackish posteriorly, thinly silvery, the pregenal area very broad, brown, extending upward between sides of face and facial depression; antennæ and arista rufous, third antennal joint little more than one and a half times as long as second, with a somewhat darker shade on outer side; proboscis brownish, palpi rather fuscous, tips rupous; occiput black, black-hairy.

Baptolinus Pilicornis, Payk.

Till lately this species has been known in our literature as B. macrocephalus, Nord. It has a very wide distribution across the northern part of the continent, from Alaska to New Hampshire, and through the Alleghanies as for south as southern Pennsylvania, and probably much further. In Europe it ascends to 68°, and is spread over all Siberia to the Amur. It does not seem to be abundant anywhere. It is very variable in colour, and to some extent in the fineness or coarseness of the general punctuation. I took two examples here recently under the bark of a mosscovered decaying oak, and several a few days afterward on the mountains, in the same situation. All these are black and shining, with the mouth parts, antennæ and legs pale, corresponding to the description of Paykull's type. Four examples from Vermont have the mouth parts and the antennæ rufous, and the elyta, rufous, grading imperceptibly to rufo-piceous at the apex and sides.

Eudamus coyate: Expands 2⅛i inches. Primaries dark glossy brown, several shades darker than Eudam. bathyllus; fringes of same colour as the wings. The apices of the wings run more to a point than in other species of the genus. There are no markings on the primaries, although there are some very faint indications of markings, which are not brought out by transmitted light. Secondaries immaculate and same colour as primaries, but with well marked dirty white fringes.

The first collection of notes on the Aegeriadæ of Central Ohio was published in the current volume of Canadian Entomologist. Since the former notes left my hands additional observations have been made, and a few more species collected. Inasmuch as I shall have something to say of the destructive habits of the larvæ of these species; this seems to be the appropriate place to present these notes.

Although this is a common insect in many parts of the United States, it is not generally found in great numbers in any locality, and, notwith standing its general distribution, the various staes of the insect seem not to have been describe or figured.

While I am not yet able to clear up all the points in its history, I have studied the insect in all its stages, though I have not reared it from the egg to maturity, on account of the time required for it to develop—in all probability three years.

Under the title “Icones Insectorum Rariorum cum Nominibus courm trivialibus, locisque e C. Linnœi Arch: R: et Equ: AurL Syst: Nat: allegatis.” Charles Clerck, a member of the Royal Academy of Sciences of Upsala, commenced the publication at Stockholm, in the year 1759, of a series of plates intended to illustrate the species of exotic lepidoptera recently named by his distinguished fellow-countryman, the immortal Linnæus.

In the March number of Entomological News Dr. Horn records the capture at St. John, N.B., of Carabus nemoralis, Mull, by Mr. C. B. Riker in April or May, 1891. I can confirm the occurrence ot this species in the locality mentioned and can add from it a second species to our lists. On the 6th Sept, 1891, having the forenoon to spend in St. John I made a visit to the celebarated falls which pour up or down the river, according to the state of the tides, for which the Bay of Funday is noted. I spent about half an hour searching for Coleoptera, and among the Carabidæ found under drift wood were two species of Carabus.

“Attacking the Solidago or Golden Rod.” “Quite common in eastern New York.” “Slender, straigh, smooth stalks of the Golden Rod quite often have one and sometimes two large, round galls or ball-like swellings upon them, an inch in diameter, when the stalk above and below is less than a quarter of an inch.” “In the winter season most of them are found to be empty, with a round hole perforated in them, the worm having completed its growth, and the winged fly having come out through this perforation the preceding autumn.

The preparatory stagees of this pretty Phalenid are not given in Packard's “Monograph of the Geometrid Moths”, nor cited by Henry Edwards in his “Catalogue of the Preparatoy Stages of N. A. Lepidoptera”; and, since they differ in some regards from the general characters of the caterpillars of the genus as given by Guenée, I have drawn up a brief account of larva and pupa.