As Mr. Scudder has charged me with blunders of one sort or other, I am compelled to notice the matter, as slience on my part would properly be construed as an acknlowledgement that he was right.

O. On p. 1805, the synonymy of Argynnis (Brenthis) Freija is given, closing thus: “Argynnis Chariclea Edw., in his catalogues.” And on p. 180, under Chariclea: “Argynnis Freya Edw., in his cat.”

There is a tradition extant in Denver that the sun shines in Colorado nearly every day. This last summer was a woeful exception, however, for, from the middle of April until the end of June, the weather would have been thought respectable only in Labrador, but the unusal wet and cold springs, although it retarded the insects, gave such an impetus to the growth of flowers and herbage on the mountain sides and tops, that, when the hot weather set in, all species of diurnals appeared to be unusally abundant, and every kind seemed to be flying at one time.

This tribe is, so far as I know, exclusively American. The thorax is elevated, the patagia usually deflected. The eyes are naked; the front embossed; the legs thinly scaled, with a claw on front tibiæ; the abdomend somewhat short and weak, untufted on dorsum; the wings pointed at tips. The genera seem to fall in between Calpe and Plusia* They are: Basilodes, Stiria, Stibadium, Fala, Plagiomimicus, Acopa. The genus Cirrhophanus probably belongs to the Heliothini; we do not know the larva, but the moth is allied to Chariclea delphinii, by the Hübnerian charcter of the pattern of ornamentation.

A. stretchii Grt.

1875—Grt., Can. Ent., VII. 197. Arctia

1883—Neum., Papilio, III., 150. =intermedia.

1886—Grt., Can. Ent., XVIII., 110, an var intermedia?

Habitat—Texas.

Mr. H. J. Elwes has recetnly published a paper in Trans. Ent. Soc., London, 1889, p. 535, entitled “A Revision of the Genus Argynnis,” and on page 574 writes as follows:- I have also specimens of Arge Strecker, from Strecker and Mr. Holland, both from Spokane Falls and Californa, which are, undoubtedly, the same as Erinna, which has described in 1883 as a var of Eurynome by Edwards, and in his catalogue of 1884 is put down as a variety of Montivaga.

Mr. L. Bruner has kindly identified the following Orthoptera, found at 10,000 feet and upwards:-

Circotettix undulatus Thos. near Micawber Mine, Aug. 6.

Ceuthophilus maculatus Scudd.,♀, near Micawber mine.

The Tachinid Parasite of Cimbex Americana.—Mr. L. Bruner, in the report of the Entomologist, Nebraska State Board of Agriculture, for 1888, has an interesting article on that notable pest Cimbex Americana Leach, in which he states that although the insect is abundant in Nebraska, he has failed to find that it has any parasite.