Egg—Ovoidal, narrowing above, the base rounded, summit depressed ; the lower third smooth ; nearly a second third marked by irregularly hexagonal, very shallow cells; and the remainder by vertical ribs, slightly raised, terminating at the rim of summit ; color whitish-green. Duration of this stage 9 to 13 days.

It is hoped the following list of Noctuæ, taken principally at bait, will prove of some interest to readers of the Can. Ent, although it is not a complete exposé of the fauna of this locality, having been compiled from but two years' catches—'75 and ‘76. During the season of ‘75 the weather was very favorable for sugaring, as there were always two or three nights out of a week in which the baits were swarming with moths, from May to October, but baiting was not followed very steadily or thoroughly.

The question how to check the ravages of obnoxious insects is a very important one, and I am very often asked for advice in special cases. While occupied with a close examination of the proposed remedies and looking through a large number of scientific tracts, some of them fell into my hands and induced me to study them again. The present communication is the result of those studies.

This pine-boring Pyralid was described by Prof. A. R. Grote in a paper read at the Nashville Meeting, 1877, of the American Assoc. for the Adv. of Science, and published in Canandian Entomologist, vol. ix., 161. During the summer and autumn of 1878, and again this year, I have made some observations upon the occnrrence, larval habits and parasitic enemies of this moth, and am able to state concerning them some additional facts of interest.

Melitaea Fulvia.

Male.—Expands 1.5 inch.

Upper side brown-black over basal area of each wing, somewhat dusted rvith fulvous; or the ground color is partly replaced by fulvous, especially in the cells ; the costal margin and apex of primaries black, and both hind margins are narrowly edged by black ; all the nervures and branches black ; remainder of wings fulvous ; both have a submarginal series of fulvous spots, preceded by a black line, those of primaries at apex replaced by yellow, or obsolete ; beyond the black line a complete common series of small yellow spots ; a second on the disk, larger, and on secondaries elongated, sometimes very much so, and more or less confluent with the spots of the outer row ; on primaries a large yellow spot, edged with fulvous, next inside arc of cell, and two or three small yellow spots below this ; in cell of secondaries a small similar spot, but sometimes wanting ; fringes alternately and equally black and white.

G. fasciella Cham.

G. 5-notella Cham.

With ten specimens of fasciella and two of 5-notella before me, with scarcely a trace of variation in the ten, but with the two differing from each other somewhat and both differing very decidedly from the ten, I had no doubt as to the distinctness of the two species.