In his “Fortegnelse over Norges Lepidoptera” (Christiania Videnskabs-Selskabs Forhandlinger for 1893, No. 13), Dr. W. H. Schoyen, State Entomologist of Norway, has given us a list of 1267 species of Lepidoptera that inhabit his country, tabulated to show the Provinces in which they occur, and the exact latigude over which each species is known to be distributed. The interest which this list posesses for the American entomologist is in the number of species it contains that are common to both countries.

In April of last year I found on the banks of the Ottawa River, at Como, Province of Quebec, a number of very fine stems of a species of Golden-rod. These stems were bare and dry, and bleached by the winter storms. Their attraction for me lay in this—nearly every one of them was burdened with a fine large Trypeta-gall. On some of them two such galls were to be seen.

After the long, steady and severe winter we had in this locality, every one hoped for an early spring; but in that we were disappointed, things generally being no futher advanced at the end of May than they usually are in the middle. June came in warm, but with such continuous rains as to prevent collecting to any extent.

The following notes are intended to throw further light on the affinities of certain little-known species, which I have lately examined:-

(1.) Chionaspis major, Ckll.—Found on Heliotrope at Antigua by Mr. C. A. Barber. The ♀ resembles that of Diaspis lanatus, but may be distinguished from it without difficulty.

I did not suppose that anything I worte on North American Butterflies was likely to find favour in Mr. Edward's eyes, but in a long cirticism of my paper on Œneis, which I have just seen in Canadian Entomologist, there are two or three points on which he has so much misunderstood or misrepresented me that I cannot pass them by, as I shall do the greater part of his remarks, as unworthy of notice.

1. Athysanus Anthracinus, n. sp.

Head shorter and more rounded before than in plutonius, closely punctured. Vertex ⅓ longer on the middle than next the eye, sloping and strongly rounded to the base of the front, median carina very feeble; ocelli and two dots on the hind margin fulvous.

The male differs little from the female in colour (specimens from Indian River, Fla., Dr. Wittfeld); the described differences being all variations. The male clypeus is often black at base and in middle.

Thanks to the identifications of Prof. Smith with the British Museum collection which contains Walker's types, we have now a certainty as to the correct names of almost all our species. It is clear from different remarks in the catalogue that under Mr. Butler's rearrangement of the material some shifting of the specimens described by Walker has taken place, and this shifting has equally certainly led here or there to an accidential shifting of label.

Aside from the wasps distinguished by their folded wings (Diploptera) and the Chalcidian genus Leucospis, there is no record, unless of distant date, of any Hymenopterous insect having the wings folded. In Coptera the “longitudinal fold” described by Say is in reality a pleat of ridge; the wings, as I have repeatedly observed in the living insect, being laid flat upon the back and never folded.