The account of this insect given by the early fathers of Œconomic Entomology is so charming that it seems almost profane to disturb a history accepted by most of their credulous offspring with unquestioning faith. Its wonderful habits and spura-rational instincts have been stock in trade ever since, and, like the fiction of the fly walking on glass by a sucker arrangement of its feet, is likely to hold its place in paste and scissor literature for all time to come.

Allied to F. denudata, but differing greatly in important particulars, Fore wings are bright shining seal-brown, deep orange along the costa for the basal half. At the middle of the wing at base in a narrow denuded space, and the internal angle is also devoid of scales, but much more narrowly so than in denudata. The transparent space is golden yellow in shade. Lower wings transparent golden yellow, with very bright but dark opalescent reflection. The margin and spot at the extremity of cell dark brown. Antennæ bluish black, orange brown at the base. Head, disk of thorax, and the upper portion of the abdominal segements, black. Eyes black, palpi with black at their base. Front of head, collar, sides and base of thorax, posterior edges of abdominal segments bright orange. Feet and legs wholly orange without any black bands.

I beg to record the capture, by myself, in the neighborhood of Bergerville, Province of Quebec, of two specimens of Thecla Augustus. I am indebted to Mr. W. H. Edwards for the identificaiton of the insects.

3. Acanthaclisis Texana Hagen.

I have a male and females from Carrizo Spring, Dimmit Co., Western Texas, just near the frontier at Mexico.

Length of body, male, with app., 50 mm.; female,45. Length with wings 65 mm. Exp. al., 118 to 120.

Very similar in shape and color to A. Americana. After long consideration I beliver them to be different species, until by a larger material it shall be shown that the differences given are such that A.Texana shoudl be considered to be only a well marked variety.

Notwithstanding much that has been learnedly written upon the family Bombycidæ, or Spinner Moths, no strong exclusive structural characters have been brought to light which hold the groups together as a natural family. Following Linné and Latreille, the American authors, Dr. Harris and Dr. Packard, have, however, considered such a family to exist. In Germany the different groups, or sub-families, have been raised to the rank of families, while under the loose term Bombyces the Spinner Moths as a whole have been designated.

On PAge 114 of the present volume of Canadian Entomologist Mr. A. R. Grote in his “Note on Mistaken Identifications,” mentions Dr. Harris' record of the capture of Carabus auratus Linn, in Massachusetts, and implies that Dr. Harris has made an erroneous, or “curious,” identification. This, however, is not the case, and it would be impossible for so careful an observer as Dr. Harris to make a mistake about a species so well known.