I fear that any one reading the various papers which have appeared during the past year on the Cunea–Congrua–Antigone–Textor controversy would not be very greatly impressed with the lucidity of entomologists. This controversy illustrates remarkably well the difficulty of carrying on a discussion about species or forms whose status is disputed without rendering confusion worse confounded, for the simple reason that different persons use the same name in different senses. For instance, when Dr. Fyles writes of cunea, Drury, he does not mean the insect which Drs. Smith and Dyar understand by the same name, the moth which Harris called the many-spotted ermine moth of the South, Phalæna punctatissima, A. & S., but the individual moth whicir served as Drury's type and which he chooses to believe did not belong to the genus Hyphantria at all, but to have been a Spilosoma, and from this springs much of the misunderstanding which has arisen between these gentlemen.

Dactylopius Irishi, sp. n.

♀.—Adult dark red, forming a very convex chalk-white ovisac about 3 millim, long and 2½ high, the sacs clustered on the twigs of the plant at the nodes, from two to ten at a node. Eggs and newly-hatched larvæ pale yellow.

Adult ♀, after being boiled and flattened on a slide, nearly circular, about 2 mm. long. The insects do not stain the liquor potassæ on boiling, but the body contains a dull crimson pigment, partly retained in boiled specimens.

Sir,—I am in receipt of a communication from A. Radcliffe Grote, M. A., Hildesheim, Germany, anent the determination of Hydrœcia stramentosa for Canadian collectors. He points out to me that the fact of its being under Apamea in our list indicates the source from whence the name was obtained, as he was the only author that ever used that generic term for the group to which stramentosa belongs, proving that he knew of its being taken in Canada, having received specimens from collectors there to name; which is more than likely, as Mr. Grote was at that time the recognized authority on North American Noctuidœ.

The ten species included in the present paper are all from the collection of Dr. Wm. M. Wheeler, under whose management this work was performed. As a slight token of my appreciation of his generosity and kindness, it pleases me greatly to dedicate one of the forms to him.

In the Canadian Entomologist, during the year 1898, I gave a series of papers on the classification of the horntails and sawflies, representing the superfamilies Siricoidea (Xylophaga) and Tenthredinoidea (Phyllophaga); while the past year, 1899, I gave a classification of the entomophilous wasps, or the superfamily Sphecoidea (incorrectly spelt Sphegoidea).

The larva of this not uncommon little Pyralid feeds on the seeds of the peppergrass. It has not been described heretofore; the name as given by Packard (American Naturalist, IV., 229) is an error of identification, the species which he represents, copied from Abbot's manuscript drawing, being Enœmia crassinervella, Zell., a Tineid. The true larva of E. pupula lives singly in the heads of the peppergrass in a loose open web, eating the unripe seeds out of the flat pods, forming two holes in each pod on the upper side. The larvæ, though fully exposed, are difficult to see, as their colours harmonize well with the general appearance of the flower heads. The delicate open web is not conspicuous.

Meyrick's work on the Macrolepidoptera of the Hawaiian Islands is a revelation of our previous ignorance of that fauna, since he describes no less than 200 new species out of a total of 292.