Larva, I example–Body smooth, thick and uniform to the 11th segment, from which it tapers abruptly to the end. Cinnamon brown; a large sub-dorsal, velvety, dark brown shade on the 4th, 5th and 11th rings, and on each of the remaining rings, except the three first and last one, is a dorsal curved line, and two small roundish spots of the same color; two larger, square, dark brown dorsal spots edged with yellowish-white, on the first ring.Head roundish, as wide as the body.

Fore wings pale carneous brown shaded with dusky; terminal space more blackish. Median lines fine, black, approximate, angulate. A curved sub-basal shade on internal margin. Reniform narrow, outwardly curved or oblique, white and contrasting, set in a dark suffusion of the disc. Subterminal line even, with a costal angulation. A fine dark terminal line at base of concolorous fringes. Hind wings pale, shining with traces of median shades and the fringes slightly carneous ; abdomen concolorous with hind wings.

My knowledge of this genus is derived wholly from Prof. Zeller's paper. It is equal in part at least to Holcocera Clem. (I have to thank Prof. Riley for calling my attention to the fact that in some of my references to this genus the name is incorrectly given as Holocera.)

B. sciaphilella., as described and figured, differs from H. triangularella Cham. as to the position, size and form of the triangular spots on the wings. Sciaphilella has distinct opposite, comparatively small costal and dorsal triangles, while triangularella has no dorsal triangle, but a single large costal one, wide upon the costa and crossing the fold, and it also has the apical part of the wing distinctly streaked and clouded with brownish gray.

This species is similarly sized with y-inversa, or perhaps a little larger. It is less brightly colored. The fore wings are dusky ochre with two blackish lines ; the first crossing the wing a little obliquely at the middle; the second before the apex from costa to external margin. The lines do not meet at costa as in its ally. The space between the lines is discolorous, being somewhat grayish. Hind wings more yellowish, concolorous. Beneath immaculate, like hind wings above. Thorax like fore wings. Antennæ simple.

The life history of Meloe, as given by the Editor in the December No. of this journa1, agreeing very closely with that of M. angusticollis Say, as far as my knowledge of its habits will permit me to judge, it occurred to me on reading Mr. Brodie's very interesting notes in the January No., that unless we have in this country a double brooded Meloe, some one must be referring another species to Say's angusticollis.