During the latter part of September, and early in October, 1891, I spent two weeks in London, and most of the time in the entomological rooms of the British Museum. My aim was, primarily, to identify the noctuids described by Walker, and in this I succeeded, the MSS. incorporatig the notes there made being now in the hands of the printer. So large is the material in this magnificent collection, that I found opportunity for only a very hasty glace at other families of the Heterocera, and on a few species only I made brief notes.

“Attacking the Solidago or Golden Rod.” “Quite common in eastern New York.” “Slender, straigh, smooth stalks of the Golden Rod quite often have one and sometimes two large, round galls or ball-like swellings upon them, an inch in diameter, when the stalk above and below is less than a quarter of an inch.” “In the winter season most of them are found to be empty, with a round hole perforated in them, the worm having completed its growth, and the winged fly having come out through this perforation the preceding autumn.

Dasylophia puntagorda, n. sp.

♂.—Head and thorax appearing palest gray from admixture of pure white with cinereous. Abdomen, secondaries and ground colour of primaries sordid white. Primaries streaked longitudinally with blackish, which contrasts violently with ground colour. A diffuse, heavy, blackish shade rund obliquely from apex inward. A curved blackish line, reaching neither costa nor internal margin at outer three-fourths of wing.

A new contribution to our knowledge of the early stages of butteflies has come from Bombay, where Messers. Davidson and Aitken have published (Journ. Bomb. Nat. His. Soc., Vol 5,)half a dozen coloured plates, excellently drawn by Mrs. Blathwayt, representing the transformations of sixteen species. Their published notes, however, cover no less than 994 species and run through all the families, and among them will be found many interesting things,—a chrysalis of Elymnias “suspended by the tail only, but in a rigidly horizontal position,” a species of Abisara, one of the Lemoniinæ, whose larva has the head free, a gregarious Delias where the eggs are laid “in parallel rows with equal intervals,” a Papilio laying, like our species of Polygonia, ten eggs in a column, Hesperidæ with fluffy secretions and some where the transformations are open, and which in some cases have and in some have not a median girth.

The following cases of insect monstrosities have come under my notice, and I have thought it best to make them known in order that those interested in this work might have access to the descriptions. While but little seems to have been written on the subject in this country beyond the describing a number of interesting forms by Jayne (Trans. Am. Ent. Soc., VIII.) and Henshaw, Scudder and Hagen (Psyche), it has attracted considerable attention in Europe, many writers having published accounts, with figures, of more or less interesting cases.

The following table includes only the species of Phora described by Leow, and four new ones—ten in all. Phora atra of European entomologists, together with P. cornuta, Bigot, fuscipes, Macq., and rufipes, Meigen, are said to occur in North America—the second in Cuba, the last two in the Hudson Bay region—but I have not seen the descripitons.

In the January Canadian Entomologist Mr. James Fletcher had an interesting article on his “pet” mole cricket. At his suggestion I send a few notes upon the larval from of the same species.

On January 4 last, Mr. A. I. Hayward, connected with our State Experiment Station, brought me five larvæ of the mole cricket, which were found in rather a peculiar situation. He had a number of men putting up ice. The ice had been removed from a considerable space, when, wading around in the water with tall rubber boots on, he found the yound mole crickets swimming around upon the water.

The monograph of this genus, published by Handlirsch,* necessitated the working-up of the unidentified species in the collectin of the American Entomological Society. This author has merged several genera into Gorytes, viz., Euspongus, Hoplisus, etc. I have followed him, as several of the species described herein belong to what was once the genus Hoplisus. There are serveal other new species contained in the Society's collection, represented by single specimens only.

A. Flora, n. sp.

♂, expanse 1.40–1.75. White. Forewings blackish at base; many black scales along costa; bar broad, at costa reaching inwards, and at the middle with an angle outwards into the orange, with a broadening, vaguely-edged stripe connecting it to the margin near inner angle; orange patch very large, deep reddish coloured, the colour extending to costa and also to outer margin near the angle; apical margin black with obtuse serrations inside, the lower end becoming maculate of merely of roundish spots in the edge of teh orange patch; fringe whie and black.