In the Can, Ent., vol, ix., p. 112, I have described as a new species,under the name of Caloptenus volucris, a long-winged variety of Pezotettix autumnalis Dodge. I separated it because of its great length of wing, in which respect it equals many specimens of Cal. spretus, while in the typical autumnalis the elytra are very short, ovate and pointed. It also exhibited sonie variations in color. The latter I have since seen paralleled irt autumnalis, and having found long-winged varieties of two other species of Pezotettix, I am now fully satisfied of the varietal character of volucris.

Egg–Sub-globose, well rounded in every part, but somewhat broadest below the middle; wholly covered by fine,irregularly hexagonal reticulations, scarcely raised above the surface; color yellow-green. Duration of this stage 8 days.

Young Larva–Length .08 inch; cylindrical, thickest in middle, tapering pretty evenly either way, the last segment ending in two short tails; body covered with fine white hairs, slightly recurved; color pink-white, marked longitudinally by seven crimson lines, one of which is medio-dorsal, and three on either side; head sub-globose, nearly twice as broad as any body segment, flattened frontally, depressed slightly at top, and with a small conical process upon each vertex; color dark brown. To next stage 7 days.

Bronchelia gravilinearia, n. sp.

The general ground color of this species is a light brown, approaching a fawn color. The palpi, however, are of a dark brown.

F. w.—Wing stretch 1¾ in. There are five distinct, dark brown,transverse bands, all commencing on the costa. The first two basal and rather close to each other; the inner of the two somewhat broken. The third very heavy. The fourth is much narrower than the third, and commences on the costa at about one-tenth of an inch from the third, curving until it touches it at about mid-wing, thence running nearly confluent with it to inner margin. The fifth band is not quite so heavy as the third, and is broken at about the third nervule. All the bands curve towards the base, but are not quite parallel. The space between the fifth band and outer margin is thickly .covered with scales of the same dark brown as the bands. Outer margin slightly notched, with a row of dark brown lunar marks. All the bands, except one and two, are extended across the hind wings.

By a slip of the pen the description of this species contains the following sentence: “Annulus about its middle at the tip.” It should read: “Middle and another at its tip.” There are several indistinct costal streaks besides the five larger ones from which it takes its name, and there are four brown spots or longitudinal dashes along the line where the general brownish-gray color of the wing meets the white dorsal part.

This beautiful diurnal–the “Camberwell Beauty” of England, and very inappropriately styled the “Mourning Cloak” by Americans, for is it not clothed in a mantle of imperial purple, fringed with gold lace?–is well known to hybernate. It is occasionallv found in stone piles in the winter, but I think its most common hiding-place is in the culvert walls of our country roads and turnpikes. It requires a cold, moist, dark place, or it will dry up.