During the last of April and through the month of May, 1877, I found the larvæ of this moth in grassy places in Washington county, Illinois. when full grown they were 1.75 inches long, robust, the head four-sevenths the width of the middle of the body. The color of the under side yellowish gray. Above the line of the lower part of the stigmata, four broad dark brown stripes alternating with three narrow grayish yellow ones, the latter in the dorsal and sub-dorsal regions, and much lighter at the extremities of the body. Head gray, mottled with brown, brown border to the inner part of eyes. cervical shield very dark brown, crossed by dorsal and sub-dorsal light lines. No hairs noticeable except with g1ass.

The uses of the beating net are obvious and can at once be appreciated in the collecting of Coleoptera and larvæ. A convenient and simple form is here presented, with directions for its construction.

This particular form of net was invented and presented to me by my friend, Mr. T. B. Ashton, of Tonganoxie, Kansas, who has not only distinguished himself as a Coleopterist, but has shown hirnself to be an excellent mechanic.

By grasping the net with the left hand, as shown in fig. 2, thrusting it under a shrub, and giving the bush a quick shake, or blow with a walking-stick, every living thing upon it wil1 instantly fall upon the apron of the net. If Coleoptera, they can be secured with the fingers or a small net held in the other hand for that purpose. If caterpillars, they can be gently rolled into a receptacle prepared for them.

Last summer I was so fortunate as to obtain fifty eggs of the rare Sphinx, Darapsa versicolor. They were found between June 26th and July 20th, on the under side of the leaves of the common swamp button bush, Cephalanthus occidentalis Linn., and, with two exceptions, were laid singly. The egg is round and slightly flattened-about the size of rape seed. It is at first light green and translucent, afterwards milky and opaque; a few before hatching became, about the spot where the larva emerged, russety. The longest any egg continued without hatching was six days, and it is almost a certainty that the duration of the egg state is seven days.

Euloncha oblinita Grote.

Larva, one specimen-Body black; a broad coral-red band on the back of each ring and a row of bright yellow blotches on the sides. The black ground color is variegated with White on the sides. On each ring are ten small warts, each of which bears about eight short, stiff, spreading brown spines, which sting severely when touched. Head roundish, coral-red, with two brown spots on the crown. Length when full grown, 1.4 inches. Feed on the smooth alder (Alnus serrulata). Changed to a pupa within a tough cocoon attached firm1y to a twig. Imago June 6.

I am indebted to Prof. A. R. Grote for the identification of this species, and to Dr. A. S. Packard, jr., for the following Geometrids.

In Acopa carina Harvey, from Texas, the accessory cell on the primaries is smaller than in a new species which I have received from Prof. Snow from Southern Kansas. In this genus the body is linear and slight,tibiæ unarmed, ocelli small, male antennæ brush-like with distinct joints,thorax with a tuft behind, abdomen untufted, linear. Fore wings 12-veined with accessory cell, from the outer apex of which spring veins 7 and 8; 9 out of 8, a long furcation to costa. Hind wings 7-veined; median vein 3-branched; 8 out of 7 not far from the base. Primaries with oblique outer margin and produced apices. Front with a clypeal plate. Labial palpi narrow, linear, improminent; legs slender, tibiæ unarmed.

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.

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.

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.