The interesting paper by Mr. J. A. Lintner, Entom. Contributions, No. iv., induces me to give some extracts from the papers by Prof. von Siebold, which the author could not compare himself, the more as they answer some important questions.

“I examined with much interest, in the Museum in Breslau, Prussia, the specimens of hair worms communicated by different persons. Those worms were found living in the heart of the apple some years ago, very frequently in Silesia (by F. S. Leuckart, Zoolog. Bruchstuecke, Heft I., 1820, p. 5). Four of them belong to Mermis acuminata, and others also to Mermis; also a specimen in Prof. Otto's collection. The Filaria found in an apple by Prof. Waga will probably also be a Mermis (Revue Zool.,1844, P. 366).”

Comma; dimorphic forms Harrish and Dryas, both figured in But. N. A., Vol. 1.

In Can. Ent., v., 184, Oct., 1873, I gave the result of breeding this species from eggs laid by the form dryas, viz., 6 dryas, but many more of Harrisii, establishing the dimorphism, Since that time I have raised several broods from the egg, and both before and after 1873 recorded in my journal the history of several lots of larvæ found by me. I have therefore some material for illustrating the peculiarities of the species. At Coalburgh there are three broods annually, and the butterflies of the third brood hybernate. The hybernating females deposit their eggs last of April or early in May, and the first brood of the butterflies emerges from chrysalis about 1st June; but should the weather be cold during May, then from the middle to last of June.

This beautiful diurnal–the “Camberwell Beauty” of England, and very inappropriately styled the “Mourning Cloak” by Americans, for is it not clothed in a mantle of imperial purple, fringed with gold lace?–is well known to hybernate. It is occasionallv found in stone piles in the winter, but I think its most common hiding-place is in the culvert walls of our country roads and turnpikes. It requires a cold, moist, dark place, or it will dry up.

Grupholitha taleana, n. s.

♂.Fore wings brownish fuscous; under the glass the scales are seen to be blackish with white tips. Thorax concolorous. Fore wings, with three orange-ochre costal lines; the outer two ante-apical, outwardly oblique and joining a marginal line of the same color; the inner a little less oblique, just without the middle of the wing. The marginal line only extends to the outer border of a black patch situate below the median fold and containing four or five ochre dots. Fringes silky, concolorous with the wings. Hind wings a little darker than primaries, immaculate. Beneath concolorous brownish fuscous, with the exterior margins of both wings shaded with pale. Costa of primaries above at apices narrowly yellowish, enclosing fuscous streaklets. No costal fold.

Tortricina

It is not my purpose to enter upon the difficult field of this family. My acquaintance with the literature of the subject, and with the characters of the multitude of very unnatural genera into which it has been in modern times divided, is too limited to justify me in so doing; the more especially as Prof. Fernald is now working it up. But the two species mentioned below are sufficiently interesting to induce me to publish the following observation upon them.

Phigalia cinctaria, n. sp.

Wingless female.—Length .75 of an inch; exserted oviduct, .25 more. Color light gray with a very slight olive tint, and irregularly mottled all over with black; the spots large above, but smaller on the sides and beneath; the thorax nearly uniform black; the divisions between the segmentspea green while alive, but turning darker in drying. Head grayish b1ack, the clypeus black; antennae black, annulated with gray, reaching to about the middle of the body, when turned back. Hind wings reaching to the back part of the first abdominal segment, the forewings reaching to the middle of the same segment. Feet and legs grayish black, annulated with gray. The oviduct with two joints exserted, the last third of the outer joint hairy, the hairs perpendicular to the joint. Head short, scarcely to be seen from above, rather wide between the eyes; palpi short. From a single ♀.

The following note on the structure of Zimmermani is taken from a MS. paper on the N. Am. Phycidæ which I am preparing for publication. I would be glad of more material in this group from any correspondents.

“Pinipestis (sub-gen. nov.).

Maxillary palpi alike in both sexes, concealed by the porrect labial palpi, which have the third article erect and exceed the front. Ocelli present. Male antennæ very slightly bent at base, where they show slight continuous scale-tufts ; ciliate beneath. Fore wings with veins 4 and 5 running close together at base; these veins are seen to have a separate origin, 5 on the cross-vein close to 4, divaricating at one-third from base. Hind wings 8-veined ; vein 5 running close to 4 at base, but separate and continuous with the discal cross-vein. Head behind with a thick transverse ridge of scales; clypeus with a bunchlike projection of scales centrally.”

Agrotis Hilliana, n, s. ♀. All the tibiæ spinose. Allied to perconflua, but much brighter colored and with larger and distinctly annulated stigmata. Bright rusty ochre, shaded with lilac gray. A fine black basal streak reaches to the small black marginal claviform. Base of the wing ochreous,basal half line double, the inner line distinct blackish brown. Sub-basal space washed with lilac gray. Inner transverse line a little oblique, nearly straight with a slight outward curve below submedian vein on the margin, double, the outer line distinct, the inner fades out below costa. Median space rusty ochre; orbicular large, ochreous, with faint internal annulus, oblique, ringed with black; reniform similar in color, upright,very near the exterior line, which commences on the costa just above it. Exterior line lunulate, nearly straight, faintly indicated below costa. Sub-terminal space dark, washed anteriorly with lilac gray, contrasting with clear ochreous terminal space and fringes. Hind wings pale ochreous with faint lunule and double shaded lines. Abdomen above pale ochreous. Thorax rusty and dark. Head and collar pale ochreous.

The student is referred to my papers on the Bombycidæ of cuba for remarks on a generic group closely allied to Halisidota (Halesidota) which I have called Euhalisidota, describing under it the species luxa, fasciata, scripta and alternata. Closely allied to the first of these is a species from Florida, the male of which I have from Mr. Schwarz, the female from Mr. Dury. It is hardly so large, and without the black thoracic marks, although I can make out two black points on the collar in one specimen. It seems to differ by the streak of dusky speckles about the median vein at the extremity of the cell, and the distinct subterminal series of isolated black dots. The color is dusky ochre, with the thorax darker and the inside of the fore tibiæ orange. The male antennæ are bipectinate. The secondaries are paler, with a slight apical mark in the male.