I have postponed replying to Mr. Bacot's communication (Can Ent., XXXV., 44–47) until I could examine his preparations. He has kindly sent them to me, and they seem definitely to settle the two points that remain at issue. The Agliatau is in fluid, and shows a number fo secondary setæ as described by Mr. Bacto. These setæ are short and unusally weak, so that in my own specimen, which is dried, inflated they had become partly shrivelled, partly broken in transit. I do not think, after examining Mr. Bacot's specimen, that they can be regarded otherwise than as true setæ, and I am very willing to acknowledge myself corrected. This correction, if applied to my synoptic table of Saturnian genera (Tutt, Brit, Lep., III., 272), makes my division stronger and sharper than before, allying Aglia more strongly than ever with Attacus and Saturnia.

The members of this section of Club are endeavoring to create a more active interest in the study of entomology by holding fortnightly meetings, at the residences of the members, for the exhibition of specimens, discussion thereon, and the presentation of brief papers. The movement has so far proved most satisfactory, and the benefit of it has been felt by every individual, in reviving and quickening their love for the subject, and in affording opprtunity for solving of problems which every collector meets with in examining insects which he has not specially stuided. Three meetings have already been held; the first at the residence of Dr. Flecther, who was the principal mover in organizing the meetings; the second at Mr. Harrington's and the third at Mr.Hulkett's. They were all most enjoyable and instructive, and the two hours allotted to each were fully occupied, and the discussions and exhibits will undoubtedly bear fruit in improved work in future by the members. They also look forward to more systematic collecting in the approaching season, and to the holding of more frequent sub-excurisions.

The genus Lepidosaphes was established by Dr. Shimer, in the Transactions of the American Entomological Society, Vol. I., p. 372, Jan., 1868, with one species (conchiformis =ulmi, Linn., 1758). Although the generic description is not all that could be desired, it is certainly more satisfactory than the descriptions of many genera of insects in this and other orders which have been accepted without question.

The generic name Mytilaspis was first published, without a word of description, by Signoret, in his Catalogue of the Coccidæ in the Annales de la Societe Entomologique de France (4), Vol VIII., p. 841 (1868). This paper was presented to the Society at the Seance of March 25th, but was not published till later in the year. A description of this genus was given by Signoret in the above-named work for 1870, page 91. This article was presented to the Society at the same time as the Catalogue.

There are certain species here and there among our months which are possessed of a sort of will-o'-the-wisp evasiveness, and one would as soon think of encountering them in nature as of finding the mythical pot of gold at the rainbow's end. The causes that bring about such conditions are, of course, varied, and these species often stand represented by some unique type in a distant collection. That the British Museum has long taken first rank in sheltering may of these uniques goes without saying, hence the matter of a rediscover becomes of more than ordinary moment. Further, an additional satisfaction arises, if at a second meeting with the reculuse the early history is exposed as well, and we find the way open to a more extended acquaintance, the while getting an insight into the specific standing, had that ever been questioned.

Entomologists in general, and Americans in particular, are much interested in all the pertains to one who has justly become known as the father of American entomology.

As is generally known, the tomb containing the remains of this famous naturalist is on the grounds of the o ld Maclure home, in the city of New Harmony, Indiana.* This has recently changed owners, and the old house in which Say died has been remodelled, the older portion having been torn down. This was mede necessary by the crumbling of the walls, but the new owner, Mr. John Corbin, has only allowed this to be done where it became absolutely necessary. Fortunately, Mr. Corbin fully appreciates and reveres the historic old structure, and, as he stated recently to me. “has desecreated it just as little as possible.”

This family, althougn quite distinct, is closely allied to the two which follow— the Myrmosidœ and the Mutillidœ— and it will probably be difficult for the student to separate at once the wingless females from some in the families mentioned. Some authorities, having been unable to find good characters to separate these wasps, have classifed all together as a single large family under the name Mutillidœ; but I think incorrectly so.

I have read with some interest Dr. Wasmann's “Last Reply” in the March number of this journal (page 74), and hasten to say that I was by no means “angry” when I wrote the answer referred to. I was only pained to think that a man of Dr. Wasmann's eminence in the scientific world would stoop to send to a colleague a specimen without marks of any kind for identification, in order to have him commit himself to an opininon when deprived of the subtle influence of at least a locality label.

The Entomological Society of Ontario has been kindly remembered by Messrs. J. and H. Comstock, Evanston, Ill., in a contribution to its collection of a number of butterflies taken by themselves in a trip through Colorado during the season of 1902. Carefully done up in papers, named and dated, with the localities in which they were taken, these specimens are of special interest as representing much-discussed forms of that famous locality, which hitherto have been known to us only by name.

Mr. Percy B. Gregson, of Blackfalds, Alta., sends a painting, made by Mr. F.C. Clare, of Edmonton, of the larva of Deilephila galii, Rottemburg. Mr. Gregson writes that these large larvæ are luscious treat for prairie chickens in early autumn, and are quite often found entire, although, of course, dead, in their crops. These larvæ in the Northwest feed on the Giant Willowherb [Chamœnerion angustifolium (L.), Scop.], and it was from this food-plant that is more generally-known name of Chamœnerii was derived. I have read that these larvæ are also eaten regularly by some tribes of Indians in California. Some years ago I examined the contents of the crops of four prairie chickens from Western Mantioba, and found them stuffed with the hips of the prairie rose, the leaves of the alkali-loving Ranunculs [Oxygraphis cymbalaria (Pursh) Prantl.], and many specimens of Chrysomela lunata, Fab.

I repeat here, for the benefit of American readers, the descriptions of two abberations, given by me originally in the pages of the Insekten Börse, 1920.

Samia Californica, ab. parvimacula—The male specimen is of a lighter red than usual, and the lunate discal spots are so reduced on all four wings as to appear half the usual size. They are, in fact, narrow, and only about 5 mm. in length, squarish in form. The antennæ are greatly reduced, the usual length being about 20 mm., while here they are only about 14 to 15 mm., and the pectinations appear to be proportionately reduced. The expanse is normal, about 95 mm., but at first sight the specimen suggests a different species.