2. Argynnis Oweni, n. sp.

Male—Expands 2.25 inches.

Upper dull side red-fulvous, not much obscured by brown at base; the markings rather heavy, the two marginal lines on both wings more or less confluent. Under side of primaries either yellow-buff from base to the row of ronded spots, the nervules being red-brown, or the interspaces are very ligtly washed with this colour over the buff ground; the subapical patch dark brown with a small imperfectly silvered spot; the five submarginal spots also are of same character; sometimes the silver is wholly wanting.

In the March number of Entomological News Dr. Horn records the capture at St. John, N.B., of Carabus nemoralis, Mull, by Mr. C. B. Riker in April or May, 1891. I can confirm the occurrence ot this species in the locality mentioned and can add from it a second species to our lists. On the 6th Sept, 1891, having the forenoon to spend in St. John I made a visit to the celebarated falls which pour up or down the river, according to the state of the tides, for which the Bay of Funday is noted. I spent about half an hour searching for Coleoptera, and among the Carabidæ found under drift wood were two species of Carabus.

Gnathodus impictus, n. sp.

Green, or yellow greein in the dried specimen; scutellum and all beneath quite strongly tinged with yellow. Corium whitish hyaline, nervures green and strong, especially in the male. Wings white, iridescent, nervures pale. Eyes balckish. Anetnnæ and legs soilded yellow tinged with green, especially on the posterior tibiæ. Otherwise immaculate.

By request of Mr. Fletcher I add a few remarks to his article in the January number on “Killing, Preserving and Relaxing Insects,” though the subject is so well treated there as to leave little room for additional comment.

The action of the cyanide bottle cannot be depended on as effectual in such a short time as Mr. Fletcher mentions, except in the case of the most tender insects, many Rhynchophora will live there for several hours unless the bottle is quite freshly prepared, and I know of one case in which a Coelocnemis remained alive all night confined in a bottle strong enough to quickly overcome the large southwestern species of Cleonus.

From time to time for the past ten years I have been in the habit of receiving, from various collectors in this country and Europe, speciments of North American Hesperidœ for comparison and identification with my large collection, which has been justly famous for its completeness. As this collection is now no longer in my possession, being now the property of my friend C. B. Aaron, of Philadelphis, and as I have transferred my allegiance from entomology to ethnology it has occurred to me that it will be well fro me to give here to the students of the Hesperidœ the benefit of such tables, nots teh compilations as have, in years past, been of value to me in the identification of the species in this difficult family.

Teras comandrana, n sp.

Expanse of wings 13 mm. Head, palpi thorax, and basal half of forewings, light yellowish-brown or fawn coloured. A large cinnamonbrown tringular spot rests on the costa, extending from the middle to the outer fourth, and the apex extends nearly half way across the wing. The outer part of the wing is light cinnamon-brown, and the whole surface is crossed by numerous oblique, irregular metallic band, which are visible only in an oblique light. A row of minute black tufts alon ghe inner side of the costal spot, two or three more near the fold below, one on each side of the fold at the basal third of the wing, and three near the middle of the wing at the outer fourth. Fringe concolorous with the outer part of the wing.

Exoprosopa, Macq.—At the present time no little confusion exists in regard to those species in which the brown of the wings does not form crossbands, and I am unable to give a table for separating these species that would be of much use to the student.

Recently Professor Aldrich, of Brookings, So. Dakota, sent me two specimens of a Sarcophagid which he had bred from Cimbex. They prove to belong to the old genus Sarcophaga, and are described below. It seems impossible to identify them positively with any of the published descriptions.

I wish to make a contribution to the literature of the subject of “egg dropping,” and place on record in an entomological journal an observation I made nine years ago. I do this with the object of calling general attention to this subject, which I think an interesting one, and in hope that lepidopterists may be on the look out for this method of ovidpositing in all the species of the genus.

The nots of this species by Dr. Kellicott, in the February number of the Canadian Entomologist, induce me to place on recod some of the observations made by me during the past year and used in my annual report; and also to call attention to very old record that in part answers the question—Is the species double-brooded?

Ischalia Vancouverensis, n. sp. Length 7½ mm. Flavo-testaceous, abdomen, disc of elytra and middle of antennæ purplish-black. Head deflexed, polished, prominently rounded between antennæ; eyes moderate, emarginate, coarsely granulated; antennæ reaching to apex ofhumeral pale spot, stout, first joint swollen, second small, remaining joints more elongated, gradually shortened, terminal joint acutely pointed, three basal and two terminal joints rufo-testaceous, intervening six blackish or piceous.