Length .30 of an inch; abdomen nearly globular, flattened beneath; head and thorax narrow. Head pale grayish yellow; thorax and abdomen pale gray, a dorsal blackish line on the abdomen and a transverse stripe of the same on the thorax. Stigmata black, legs pale, the articulations dark; two black spots on each side of the head. Body smooth, shinine, a few hairs on the anterior part.

Chrysalis.—Length .40 of an inch; thorax, wing and leg cases rose pink, as also the under side of abdomen; upper side of abdomen pinkish gray with a dorsal pink line. Stigmata black. Each joint of abdomen has a transverse row of black points on its posterior edge.

On 20th June, 1884, I found on edge of leaf of an Aspen, P. tremuloides, a young larva of species of Nisoniades unknorvn. A small bit of the leaf was cut on two sides perpendicular to the edge, folded over and stitched down. At a little distance from this shelter a hole was eaten in the leaf. Two days later the hole was enlarged and the larva evidently had left its nest and returned to it after feeding. On 27th June one moult was passed, supposed to be the first; on 5th July a second; on 16th July a third. This was the last moult, but I am not sure that one did not take place between the 5th and 16th. It is probable there were four moults, as N. Lucilius is reported by Prof. Lintner to moult four times. The larva was kept in a jelly glass, and being always concealed in a leaf, a moult might have escaped me.

6. Oligotoma Westwoodi, n. sp.

O. Westwoodi Hag., Synops. Embid., p. 222 (no description, not named.)

Length of body 4½ mill.; exp. of wings 7 mill.

Male: As the specimen is enclosed in copal (Gummi anime), the colours are not certain, but the head, with antennæ and palpi, the thorax and the legs in part, seem to have been blackish-fuscous; head more Raphidia-like than in any other species; more than half longer than broad; the rounded sides sloping down, the occiput less than half as broad as the front part with the eyes; head above slightly convex, epistom large, convex; eyes large, prominent, about orbicular, with a small excision for the insertion of the antennæ; facets large, globose; antennæ long, reaching the end of the metathorax, inserted in a longer socket, 15-jointed; 1st joint a little thicker, cylindrical, half as broad as long; 2nd as long as broad; all others obclavate, to three times longer than broad, but the 3rd to 5th a little shorter than the rest, the last one more ovoid, with tip rounded; there seems not to be wanting any joint more. Labrum large, rounded, a little darker in middle; max. palpi 5-jointed, the three basals alike, short, as broad as long; 4th a little longer,5th longer, ovoid; labial palpi 3-jointed, apical joint longer, ovoid.

The meetings of the Club at Ann Arbor were held daily from the 25th to the 28th of August, both dates inclusive, and were very successful. The following among others were present and in constant attendance:— J. A. Lintner, C. V. Riley, Herbert Osborn, John B. Smith, D. S. Kellicott, O. S. Westcott, L. M. Underwood, A. J. Cook, E. A. Schwarz, Henry G. Hubbard, S. H. Peabody, Clarence M. Weed, Miss M. E. Murtfeldt.

In the absence of Dr. Morris, Prof. J. A. Lintner presided. Officers for the ensuing year are: Pres., Prof. J. A. Lintner, of Albany; Vice Pres., Mr. E. A. Schwarz, of Washington; Secretary, Mr. John B. Smith, of Brooklyn.

Egg.—Diameter .035 of an inch, about the same in height; blunt, conical, the base flat; smooth; white, a dull red band round each a little below the middle, which is pretty well defined on its lower edge, but the upper is irregular, sometimes a small red speck on the apex. Duration of this period 10 days.

Young Larva.—Length .08 of an inch. General color grayish white, a purplish red band across each of the following joints, 2, 5, 7 and 12, with a faint row of the same along each side. Head jet black, broader than the body; joint 12 a little elevated; thoracic feet black, the others concolorous with the body; the body sparsely covered with white hairs half the length of the larva. Duration of this period from 2 to 3 days.

As I have stated in my notice on Melsheimer, nothing is known of his friend, Rev. D. Ziegler, except the publication of a paper on Coleoptera. Again I am indebted for a large part of the notice now given to the untiring kindness of Rev. J. G. Morris, of Baltimore, for many years a friend and correspondent of Rev. D. Ziegler. Nevertheless, desiring to find out something more of this father of American Entomology, I decided to go to York, Pa., and had the pleasure of seeing his wife, Mrs. Ziegler, his son, Dr. H. A. Ziegler, and the brother of Rev. D. Ziegler.

Daniel Ziegler was born June 11th, 1804, in Reading, Berks Co., Pa. His father, and probably his grandfather, were born in America. There is nothing known by the family as to when their ancestors came to America. After he became of age he studied at the University of Pennsylvania for some time. Later he studied Theology at York, Pa., at the German Reformed Seminary, under the presidency of Dr. Mayer.

MALE.—Expands 2.2 to 2.4 inches.

Upper side brown-orange, color of C. Californica Boisd.; occasional examples are dark, a dead-leaf-brown over whole surface; hind margins edged by a blackish border, of nearly equal width throughout, and extending to apex of primaries; but sometimes this border is widest on primaries; costa of primaries dark brown; in some examples this shade scarcely if at all crosses costal nervure, in others it encroaches on the cell more or less, and occasionally covers the whole cell; but in nearly all examples under view the cell is concolored with rest of wing; the oblique discal brown band, which is a conspicuous feature in the males of the allied species, does not appear in the present one, so far as the examples show; the coloration of the upper surface resembles that of the female of Californica; on secondaries, the costal margin is edged with brown, and just outside the end of cell is an expansion of this, which forms a large elongated patch, convex on interior side—not at all like the sub-triangular and small patch seen in Californica and Iduna; primaries have a black ocellus, rounded or oval, with white pupil on upper discoidal interspace, and a second on second median interspace, the last one usually blind, but sometimes pupillated; generally the lower ocellus is smallest, but occasionally is equal to the upper; one example under view has two additional black spots, as large as the ocellus on secondaries, one on the interspace next above each ocellus; another has mere points on these interspaces; secondaries have a small ocellus, either blind or with white pupil, in second median interspace; fringes of both wings alternately yellow white and brown-black.

In a lot of Hymenoptera captured in Vancouver Island, and sent me by Mr. Brodie from Toronto, I found the following new species:—

Ichneumon Vancouveriensis, nov. sp.

♂—Length, .62 inch. Black; face with four dots white, one on each side near the clypeus and one under each antenna. These entirely black and sub-moniliform. One dot on the alar scales with a line before and another one under, the collar, and scutellum, white. Wings slightly infuscated; the areolet pentagonal, the nervures black. Metathorax with the angles projecting, sub-spinose, the ventral area transverse, its anterior angles rounded. Legs black, the four anterior tibiæ with a white line exteriorly, the posterior with a smaller one near the base. Abdomen elongate, with the peduncle slender and punctured, entirely black. Vancouver.

Pamphila myus, n. sp.

Male.—Expanse .95 of an inch. Upper surface dark olivaceous brown, with a slight vinous reflection, about the same shade as cernes, which it much resembles. The primaries have the discal cell and the area in front of the cell like cernes, heavily washed with yellow of a little darker shade than that species, the same color ectending beyond the cell along the costal area three fourths the distance from the base to the outer margin (as the wings are spread); below the cell the same shade of yellow extends along the median vein the same distance, the area below this to the margin rather heavily sprinkled with yellow scales, except the space beyond the lower half of the stigma. This varies but little from the yellow of cernes. In cernes there is a quadrate sinus of the terminal dark brown of the wing dipping into the yellow beyond the cell, coming up to the cross vein. In this species the sinus is of the same width, but extends inward above the median vein, ending in a point half way to the base of the wing. The stigma is black, narrow, oblique, entire, though constricted below the middle, shorter than in cernes, does not reach the submedian below, and the upper end only reaches the second branch of the median, while in cernes it passes beyond this veinule, the lower third bent a little towards the base, in width not more than half as wide as in cernes; below the stigma an oblong patch of blackish scales that are bronzy in certain lights. Secondaries sprinkled with yellow scales, the inner half with yellowish hairs that are less olivaceous than in cernes.

In the June number of the Canadian Entomologist, p. 114, there is a paper by M. L'Abbe Provancher, containing descriptions of a new genus, Platysoma, and 7 new species of Canadian Hymenoptera. Six of these new species, Ich. Vancouveriensis, Platysomatibialis, Limneria compacta, Mesoleptus fasciatus, Phylax pacificus and Phylax niger, are from Vancouver Island, and I am under the impression, for reasons which I will now state, that the specimens of these species from which M. Provancher's descriptions were made were from my collection, though no mention of my name appears in M. Provancher's paper.

In No. 7 of Entomologica Americana, Mr. G. W. J. Angell gives some interesting notes on this insect. Having examined a large number from various localities “showing a nearly complete gradual gradation from the finely maculate form of Philadelphica, to the strongly marked scalaris type,” Mr. Angell is of opinion that Philadelphica Lin., multipuncta Say and its supposed varieties, are all varieties of scalaris Lec. I incline myself to the belief tirat scalaris and philadelphica are distinct species, and as my experience of these forms appears to be different to that of some other col lectors, I give it in the hope that it may lead to a careful study of their life habits. I find that Dr. Harris' history and figure of scalaris fit it exactly as it occurs in the neighborhood of Montreal. For years past I have found it on elm and linden, and on no other plant or tree. Philadelphica and Bigsbyana I find on willow and alder; never on elm and linden. Dr. Packard in his Guide states that scalaris is abundant on the alder.

Genus Synairema, Hartig.

This genus was detached from Tenthredo by Hartig in 1837, for an insect described in 1793 by Panzer, under the name of Tenthredo rubi, found in Germany, Sweden, France, Tyrol, &c. In 1849, Bremi described a new species found in Helvetia, which he named S. alpina. It has not yet been recorded as met with in America.

Synairema differs only from Tenthredo by its lanceolate cell, which is largely contracted in the middle, while in the last it is separated by a straight nervule.

C. aurella, ♀, new var.

Primaries and thorax light gray, strongly shaded with yellow; h. p. and t. p. line with t. a. line very distinct; teeth below U somewhat rounded; reniform indistinct; subreniform distinct; a broad, pale, tancolored line (outside of white shading of t. p. line) running parallel with t. p. line.

Secondaries bright yellow; median band black, narrow, even, not reaching inner margin, marginal band broad, black with a slight yellow tinge; fringes dirty white; abdomen ochre-yellow.

In C. Ent., 14, p. 223, I stated that Newman, in Nat. Hist. Br. But., described the mature larva as pupating in a case specially prepared for the purpose on the plant it had been feeding on: “from the roof of this the caterpillar suspends itself and becomes a chrysalls.” Also quoted from Harris, who says the larva “seeks a suitable place in which to undergo its transformations.” In the conclusion of the paper, vol. 15, p. 19, I said that I had never found a case with pupa in it, though I had often taken cases with the larvae in earlier stages, and I ventured the conjecture that both Harris and Newman were right, but that in our climate the larva pupated differently from its habit in England.

During the past winter an installation of about 100 arc-lamps was established at Akron, O. They haug as usual over the middle of the street. Early in the summer it was evident that they would afford a fine huntinggorund for the entomologist, and accordingly several members of the Natural History society of Akron resolved to turn the opportunity to account by making collections of the insects attracted by the light and compariirg and noting the results.