This species has long been lost sight of. It was described nearly sixty years ago from a single male “in good condition”. I never have heard of its forming part of any collection except that of the British Museum, and my own, and my specimens—a male and a female—were sent me from the Museum more than twenty years agp. In his Catalogue fo the Satyridæ, 1868, Mr. Butler says of this species: “We do not pposses the type, but our specimens agree exactly with Mr. Curtis's description.”

In the summer of 1892 I spent a month on the line of the Southern Pacific R. R., between Morgan City, Louisiana, and San Antonio, Texas. While the collectiong was by no means of the best, a few notes may interest the readers of the Canadian Entomologist and give some idea of insect life in the Southern States during the hot months.

Phyllodesma Dyari n. sp.—General apperance of the palest sienna or yellowish-ochre. Thorax and patagia thickly clothed with short hair of a uniform pale tone, the abdominal covering similar, but longer and finer, which gives to it a slightly silky appearance.

♂. Anterior wings with the anal angle deeply emarginate; three lines of dusky spots cross the disc ending near the costa, these being lines rather than bands.

Elevations in Vicinity of Laggan.—Altitudes near Laggan have in some cases been very incorrectly stated. In “Appleton's Canadia Guide-Book; Western Canada,” published 1892, the altitude of Louise Lake (Emerald Lake of the Geological Survey) is given as one thousand feet above Laggan, and the elevation of Agnes Lake is stated at three thousand five hundred feet above Laggan. Such statistics are worse than useless.

During the years 1891 and 1892 I have received the following names name to the Canadian list. Some of the specimens have been in my possession for several years, as I hoped to secure others of the same kind, whereby I might obtain their names without inconveniencing anyone by a request for their return. But they remain uniques with me to the present time; solitary witnesses to the fact that they are to be got, if looked for in the right place at the right time.

For a specimen of this most interesting moth I am indebted to Mrs. Slosson, and after an examination of ti I am unable to find any Bombycine characters, except the heavily pectinated antennæ. In Prof. Smith's List of Lepidoptera it is placed in the Liparidæ between Artaxa and Lagoa, though it bears no resemblance to these moths except in the shape of the antennæ. It has also been regarded as allied to the Cochliopodidæ.

In the collection of the Bremen Museum are a number of NoctuidŒ CatocalinŒ brought by Norwich, many years ago, from the vicinity of Savannah, Georgia, and belonging to species for the most part new to me. Nearly all are now identified by me as described by Guenée in the Species General, and their notice here can hardly fail to be of interest. I have previously remarked upon the fact that, as we progress southwardly, we are met by an increase in the number of species of Catocaline Owlet Moths, while the NoctuinŒ, or typical NoctuidŒ, diminish; the metropolis of the former seems to lie in the Tropical, of the latter in the North Temperate Zone.

Colias Behrii, Edw.

Egg.—Spindle shapted, a little contraced just before the tip, with low longitudinal and transverse ridges, which divide the surface into shallow, rectangular parallelograms. Length, 1.3 mm.; width, .6 mm. The eggs are laid singly on the upper side of the leaves of a species of ground huckleberry, its food plant.

First stage.—Head rounded, dark brown; width; .25 mm. Body of normal shape, sordid whitish, apparently without marks; minutely pilose.

Archilithabius malterris, sp. n.—Prosternal teeth, 2+2. Ocelli, 10–12, arranged in 3 rows. Antennal articles, 21. Coxal pores, 2, 3, 3, 2–3, 3, 4, 3, or 10–13, round. Spines on the first pair of legs, 2, 3, 1; on the penultimate pair, 1, 3, 3, 1; on the anal pair, 1, 3, 2, 0. Claw of female genitalia entire. Slender light chestnut, head darker. Joints of antennæ rather long. Length, 12—13 mm.