During the present summer three species of Lyita have been very abundant and destructive here. The Striped Blister-beetle ( Lytta vittata) in the early part of the season, about the end of June, began to do mischief to the Potato plants, especially where they were weedy. Later on, about the middle of July, this species was joined by the White-edged Blister-beetle ( L. marginata ), and both together fell upon the later kinds of Potato (in my garden the Buckeye).

Limenitis Eros.

Allied to Disippus, wings less produced, and in female very broad.

Male—Expands about 2.6 inch.

Upper side very dark red-brown; hind margins bordered broadly with black, costal margins narrowly; inner margin of primaries black to the submedian nervure ; all nervures and branches black, and narrowly edged with same color ; against the end of cell on primaries a long subtriangular black patch, its short side resting on costa, its apex prolonged into a stripe which reaches the border of hind margin below first branch of median ; beyond the disk on secondaries a transverse curved narrow black stripe from margin to margin ; within the borders and near their inner edges a common series of white spots, which on secondaries are small and more or less obsolete ; on the black triangle three white spots in line, the two nearest costa large, the third minute ; a white spot at the origin of upper subcostal interspace and a white streak on outer side of costal nervure opposite the triangle and a little way toward base ; fringes black, white in the middle of each interspace.

Coccus rusci Linn., Sys. Nat.; Fab., Syst. Ent. (1775); Id., Spec. Ins. (1781); Id., Sys. Ryng. (1803); Id., Mantis. Ins. (1787); Id., Ent. Sys. (1794); Modeer., Act. Goth. (1778); Gmelin., Syst. Nat. (1791); Oliv., Encyc. Meth. (1791.) C. caricæ Fab., Ent. Syst. (1794); Id., Syst. Ryng. (1804); Bernard Mem. Hist. Nat. et. Mem. Acad. (1775); Fronscol Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. (1834); Boisduval Ent. Hort. (1868).

Oncocnemis levis, n. s.

Primaries much shaded with black over dusty ochrey. Markings fine, neat, distinct. The lines black, with narrow included dusty ochrey shades. Half-line present. Anterior line with three dentations. Claviform long, reaching to posterior line, having a pale dusty ochre annulus edged outwardly with black, brown interiorly.

It is related by a celebrated traveller and naturalist that, in the dreary islands of Terra del Fuego, the only vegetable food to be obtained by the wretched inhabitants, with the exception of a few berries, is a fungus which grows in great abundance on certain trees. This fungus appears on the bark in the shape of bright yellow, globular masses of the size of small apples, and at a certain stage of development is gathered and eaten uncooked.