Allied to F. denudata, but differing greatly in important particulars, Fore wings are bright shining seal-brown, deep orange along the costa for the basal half. At the middle of the wing at base in a narrow denuded space, and the internal angle is also devoid of scales, but much more narrowly so than in denudata. The transparent space is golden yellow in shade. Lower wings transparent golden yellow, with very bright but dark opalescent reflection. The margin and spot at the extremity of cell dark brown. Antennæ bluish black, orange brown at the base. Head, disk of thorax, and the upper portion of the abdominal segements, black. Eyes black, palpi with black at their base. Front of head, collar, sides and base of thorax, posterior edges of abdominal segments bright orange. Feet and legs wholly orange without any black bands.

In the Entom. Mo. Mag., xxiii., p. 186, Jan., 1887, is the statement by Mrs. Hutchinson, of Leominster, to this effect: that the writer caught a femal CAlbum which was hovering about currant bushes, and obtained from her many eggs, laid between 27th April and 6th May. The eggs hatched between May 5th and 11th, and the larvæ were full grown from 17th to 23rd June.

On looking over Melsheimer's Crotch's and Henshaw's Catalogues of the described species of North American Coleoptera, many names will be seen placed as synonymical, or varietal; while a reference to the bibliography of the many synopses and monographs of families and genera in the Trans. Am. Ent. Soc., and other publications, exhibits a number still larger.

I have sufficiently shown in various places (and the enquiring student may consult the originals) that Kirby's description of Ruficaudis contradicts that of Uniformis, in what we must regard as essential partiuclars in this genus. We have not here to do with a species; but, according to Mr. Hulst's statements, with a dimorphic form of Thysbe, in which the inner margin of the terminal band of primaries is even, not dentate, on the interspaces.

In Papilio, 3, 159, 1883, I described Colias Hagenii as a new species. I related that Mr. T.L. Mead had brought this butterfly from Colorado, in 1871, and that we both were then satisfied that it was not Philodice; that in the summer of 1883; Mr. H. W. Nash, at Pueblo, Col., had sent me some chrysalids of this form, and I noticed that the dorsum was marked by two longitudinal lines, which seemed to indicate sub-dorsal lines in the larva, and which are not present in the larva of Philodice; that I wrote Mr. Nash to observe as to that, and he soon replied that the larvae he then had on hand did show sub-dorsal lines such as are characteristic of many larvae of Eurytheme; that I had been unable to get live eggs from Pueblo subsequently that year, owing to the heat which destroyed them en route, but that Mr. Nash had made observations on the ground, and sent on larvae in alochol which showed broad sub-dorsal bands, that, he said, in life had red running through them.

I have never seen this species, except the couple from Arabia Felix in the Berlin Museum, described by Klug, Symb. Phys., iv., pl. 35, f. 2 and 3. Rambur, p. 369, No.5, described the species after Klug's figures, Rambur and others, not excepting myself, believed that the male did not belong to the same species as the female. Klug calls it a variety. After a thorough study of the species in Berlin, I arrived at the conclusion that Klug was right, and P. cephalotes Klug shows a similar but not so exaggerated differnce between both sexes. I have carefully compared the types with the figures, and found them to be very exact.

A new species discovered by me in 1883, whilst collecting for Mr. Henley Grose Smith, of England. It was described by Mr. W. H. Edwards shortly after my return. In the end of the June and beginning of July, I found this insect easy to capture. It was comparatively rare in some districts of the North-west Territory, but at the principal crossing of the Red Deed River and the neighborhood of Fort Edmonton, it was quite common.

Last season being but a poor one for the Lepidopterist in this locality, I got but little that was new to me in this department. Being in communication with Prof. Fernald about the few I had in duplicate, I proposed to send all my single specimens to him, to name what he could and return them to me again. The professor most generously consented to the very exacting conditions, and returned my insects, which made the double journey by express, without a break, accompanied with the following names:-

I beg to record the capture, by myself, in the neighborhood of Bergerville, Province of Quebec, of two specimens of Thecla Augustus. I am indebted to Mr. W. H. Edwards for the identificaiton of the insects.

All the common species that were easily obtained in this locality, have had names in my collection for many years, but owing to the changes that were being made in the genera and synonymy of species, I was not in a position to follow them up, so that when Mr. Grote's “New Check List” appeared, which I have followed in this, I found that several of my old names had disappeared altogether, and others had been rendered doubtful.

Only seven species of this family of Orthoptera are as yet known from Texas. More species must occur along the southern border, but so little attention has been paid to this family that it may be long before the fauna is fairly well known. Perhaps the publication of this list may help to swell the number. One species is described more fully than ever before for readier identification.

In 1863, Mr. W. H. Edwards described a male Hesperian from Michigan under the name of Hesperia Pontiac, closely resembling the species figured by Boisduval and LeConte, under the name of Arpa, as well as the larger Florida species Edwards subsequently described under the name of Pilatka. In the same paper in which Pontiac was described and immediately preceding it, he described, also from Michigan, a female under the name of Hesperia conspicua.

In support of the record relating to the periods of transformation of this beetle, and the probable cause of their pruning the branches of the Oak, which I had the pleasure to contribute to the XVII Vol. of this journal, I now add some further facts, resulting from a recent visit to Clermont, N. Y.

I have quoted, Synops. Hemerob., p. 457, as belonging to Pamexis, a new species figured in Seba Thesaur., vol. iv., pl. 86, f. 20. The explanation says, “Color pallide subfuscus, maculis suture fuscis.” I can not here compare a colored copy of Seba's work, nevertheless the figure proves to be a male of a species of Pamexis without antennæ. The figures of insects in Seba are not good; but as the species belongs surely to Pamexis, and is larger than the other known species, and different from them, I wish to draw attention to the existence of a new species of this curious genus.

The following species are very interesting, as they posses no spurs at the end of the tibiæ. From N. America are for species, two not yet described. All agree in the following characters: They are very slender, more or less hairy or villous, head small, narrow; antennæ long, as long as head and thorax, or at least prothorax, stout, cylindrical, becoming gradually thicker but not clavate; labial palpi a little longer than the maxillary ones; last joint very little thickened to the middle, where a superior depression makes the apical half about cylindrical, legs short, not very thick, with numerous spines and bristle, but no spurs; first joint of tarsi longer than the following, but shorter than the apical one; abdomen of male considerably longer, of femal shorter than the wings; appendages of male short approximatel cylindrical with storng hairs and spines, enlarged at the base to reach the dorsum of abdomen; between them below a very small triangular plate; female with two short flat appendages inferiorly; upper part rounded, split in the middle; wings elongate, narrow, enlarged to the bluntly pointed tip; post-costa oblique; venation dense, and sprinkled more or less with brown; costal space of front wings with two series of areoles (one species) or with one series, but the transversals in the apical half (or less) forked; at the extreme base of the hind wings of the male is a small white free knob, homologous to the larger and darker knob of Palpares and Acanthaclisis. The larva of one species is known; it differs from all others and was described by me as perhaps belonging to Acanthaclisis congener.

I have received form Mr. Behrens, of San Francisco, the following descriptions for publication, and with them the specimens to which they refer. The Papilio is a very extraordinary aberration, probably owing its color to a change in the food plant. I learn from Mr. Behrens that four specimens were obtained, all agreeing with each other. The Catocala is, I have no doubt, the form referred to by me (Pacific Coast Lepid., No.14, Proc. Cal. Acad Sc., 1875) as having been seen by the late Baron Terloo at San Jose, Cal. I think it a good species, and in this view I am sustained by those excellent authorities on Catocala, the Rev. G.D. Hulst and Prof. G.H. French.

Homohadema Elda, n. sp.

Expanse 1.30 inches. Apex very slightly produced, the posterior angle rounded; eyes naked; palpi oblique, projecting beyond the head in their natural position about the width of the eyes; tibiæ unarmed; abdomen equalling the hind wings; covering of thorax mostly scales. Color, warm gray, slightly wine tinted; basal half line black, not very distinct, strongly angulated outward on the subcostal vein, a black basal dash crossing the lower end of this line, the space enclosed between the costa and these two lines sordid white;

The species of our insects having near allies in the better known or earlier known European fauna, have called “representative” by the elder Agassiz. And this term would be sufficiently exact and useful did we not associate with it the somewhat metaphysical sense, that these forms were separately created and owe their resemblance to the arbitrary will of the Creator.

Young Larva.—Length .10 inch; body cylidrical; head broader than the body, oblique. Color of the upper part and sides of joints 2,4,5,7,8,9,12 and 13, reddish purple; the rest of the upper part and sides and the venter dull whitish; six rows of tubercles from which proceed small clusters of brown hairs, the four rows of dorsal clusters longer than the body; head black; feet purplish. Duration of this period, 4 days.

1. Palpares inclemens Walk., p. 303, No. 4.

This is one of the largest species. Length of body, male 75 mm.; fem., 60; exp. al., 145–160 mm. I have before me a couple collected by Dr. Krauss, Stuttgart, on Cap. b. sp., from the collection of the late Dr. Schneider, Breslau; and two females from Zanzibar, collected by Mr. C. Cooke, Salem, and a female from Zanzibar Island, from Mr. Thorey, Hamburg. It belongs to this species, P. latipennis, Gerstaecker, Insects from Zanzibar, 1873, p. 55; a female from the Galla land, 2° latit., which is compared with the male described by myself in Peters' Voyage, P.99.