During the summer of 1888 considerable anxiety was caused amongst North American millers by the alarming intelligence that the small Pyralid moth, bearing the name given above, had made its appearnce in one of our large Candian milling centres. There are two or three well-known insects which attack manufactured cereal products; but none of these, have ever occurred in injurious numbers in Canada.

Cossus Brucei, nov. spec.

Expanse, male 2.50, female 3.00 inches.

Ground color, very pale gray, almost white, no dusky shading over the wing. Fore wings crossed by a great number of fine black lines. In the male none of these form reticulations except a few along the basal half of the internal vein and near the outer margin. The female has a few more of the reticulations in the outer third of the wing. On the male one line more prominent than the rest crosses the wing through the middle from the costa to the posterior margin at the origin of the fourth median vein, forming a straight line.

Epipsodea was first known to me examples taken by Mr. T. L. Mead, in Colorado, 1871. He says, in Report of the Wheeler Expediation: “This species inhabits the mountains of Colorado below timber line. Speciments were brought from Fairplay by the Expedition. It begins to appear about the first week in june, is common by the middle of that month, and remains until the last of July.”

Aplacentia A. & S.

1797—A. & S., * Ins. Ga., II., 129 pl., 65, Phalaena.

1816—Hübner, Verzeichniss, 180 Heraclia.

1856—Wlk., C.B. Mus., Lep. Het., III., 610, Arctia.

1860—Clem., Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci., Phil., XII., 529, Arctia.

1862—Clem., App. to Morris, Syn. 337, Arctia.

1863—Saund., Syn. Can. Arct. 5, Arctia.

(2) Near Micawber Mine, Aug. 6 —

Lysiphlebus salicaphidis Ashm.

Lipolexis chenopodiaphis Ashm.

Limneria montana Cr.

Periclistus sp.

Apanteles sp.

Diaeretus atricornis Ashm.

Megachile sp.

Andrena sp.

Halictus sp.

Sapyga aculeata Cr.

Camponotus vicinus Mayr.

Camponotus vicinus sp.

Perilampus platygaster Say.

Habrocytus rosœ Ashm.

Passalœcus mandibularis Cr.

Lysitermus coloradensis Ashm.

Aspilota obscuripes Ashm.