A protracted absence from home has prevented me from offering earlier to readers of The Canadian Entomologist an explanation of the circumstances which have led to my resignation of the post I have held so long as Editor of this journal. For thirteen years it has been my pleasure and privilege to be thus brought in contact with most of the active workers in the Entomological field, with many of whom I have held pleasant intercourse both by correspondence and in person, and it occasioned me much regret when I found it necessary to sever my connection with those editorial duties which had hitherto given me so much pleasure.

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.

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.

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 genus Gonia is one easily recoginzed by reason of its peculiar structure of the head and antennæ unfortunately the separation of species is a much less simple matter. As is so frequently the case, isolated specimens frequently furnish grounds for much more decided opinions that a richer mateiral will sustain. I describe in the present paper five species that present characters sufficiently decisive to render their recognition not doubtful; other species I forbear to namy till my material is richer.

In my paper on “The North American Genera of Anthracina,” which appeared in the last volume of the Can. Entomologist (pp. 157–159), I proposed the nave Velocia for those species of Exoprosopa which have four submarginal cells in each wing. Through the kidness of Dr. Williston, I have been put in possession of a paper by Prof. Camillo Rondani, entitled “Dipterorum Species et Genera Aliqua Exotica.” published in 1863 in the Archivio per la Zoologia, Vol, iii, and on pages 56 and 57 of this paper Prof. Rondani proposes the name Hyperalonia for the above group; this name being the earlier, must supersede the one proposed by me.

I have found in various collecitons in Europe, both public and private, specimens of the moth of our Cotton Worm determined after Hübner as above. From a note from Dr. Staudinger, I gather that in his collectin the moth is so determined and as proposed by me. Were I now to propose to call this species by its synonym, Noctua xylina Say, I do not think any of the entomologists in Europe would agree thereto, or be governed by Dr. Hagen's reasons for the change.

Living Pupæ.— The Rev. W.J. Holland (5th Avenue, Oakland, Pittsburgh, Pa.) has a large number of living pupæ of Tela Polyphemus, Actias Luna, C. Promethea and Angularis, E. Imperialis and C. Regalis, reared in the South, which he desires to dispose of at reasonable rates. His object is to asist and encourage a poor lad whom he has interested in Entomology. Application should be made to him at once.