Rhynchites bicolor Fab. has not that general distribution, in Canada at least, that is believed by Mr. Wickham, who remarks(Can. Ent., Vol. XXIL., p. 171): “In fact I doubt if there is a spot on this continent where roses grow that Rhynchites bicolor does not inhabti too.” On the Pacific coast it is certainly a very common insect, as I found at Victoria, V.L.., and New Westminster, B.C., in May and June, 1888.

It is reported from various quarters that V. Californica has within a year or two first been observed in British Columbia, where it is now regarded as something new and strange. It has been suggested to me that a few facts about it, as to California and Oregon, would be of interest.

Psecadia delliella n. sp.

Expanse of wings, 21 mm. Palpi white, with the outside of the first two joints black, Head white. Antennæ brown, white above basally. Thorax snow white, with two black bands, one across the middle and the other across the scutellum.

Erebia Ethela.

Male.— Expands 1.5 inch.

Upper side dark brown; both wings have a common extra-discal band of red-fulvous elongated spots, on primaries six, filling the interspaces from lower branch of subcostal to submedian, the second and third from the top a little longer than the others, these last being equal; at the end of the cell a small fulvous patch. Secondaries have five spots, the fifth being in second median interspace, the space three equal, sub-oval, the fourth about half the size of the third, and the fifth still smaller; fringes of both wings concolored.

The following brief list of food plants of Bombycidæ and Noctuidæ, not included in the recently issued catalogue of Mr. Henry Edwards, may be of some interest to persons engaged in rearing Lepidoptera. When not otherwise stated the insects have been found and reared, or reared from the eggs by myself, and were mostly collected at Kittery, Maine:-

Bombycidæ

A trifle more than two years ago the writer first entertained the idea of preparing a synopsis of the Orthoptera of Nebraska, with the intention of publishing it as a special bulletin from the Agricultural Experiment Station. With that end in view, work was immediately begun; and in the course of a few months the greater portion of the manuscript was ready for the printer. At this time other matters that were considered of more immediate importance came up at the Station, and that of the Orthoptera was laid aside. It has now been lying nearly two years.

There is no doubt but that our specimens which go by the above name are referable to the European P. fuliginosa Linn.

Prof. Smith has noticed their superficial resemblane* which amounts to identity. I have compared examples from France with a series from New York and I can find no difference in ornamentation. Neither do they differ structurally. The venation is identical.† The genitalia of the male also are the same within the limits of variation of the species, which appear to be wide. In the specimen form Europe examined the supraanal plate is elongate-triangular, produced to a point concave below slightly curved down and bulging a little laterally at the base.