Since the season of 1894 (when I first discovered that the upper and lower membranes of a butterfly's wing could be separated), I have had a desire to test the accuracy of the conclusions reached by me at that time; so with the remarkable profusion of Anosia (Danais) Archippus, Fab., in the season of 1899, I was able to secure such an abundance of material to work with that I could repeat the observations until every doubt was satisfactority settled. I shall only give here a brief statement of results reached, as a full account of the various processes will be published in the forthcoming Annual Report of the Society for 1899.

During the last winter, in connection with the study of the local bees, I had occasion to write out my views in regard to their classification, basing my observation upon the recent Apidae catalogue of Della Torre. As the views then arrived at form a fair statement of my present opinions, I venture to offer them in connection with the recent paper of Mr. Ashmead on the classification of the bees.

In the Canadia Entomologist, 1899, p. 293, ff., Mr. Ashmead has divided, first Aphilanthops into Clypeadon, Patton, and Aphilanthops, Patton, and secondly Plilanthus into Epiphilanthus, Pseudanthophilus, Anthophilus, and Philanthus.

This family has been associated usually, as a tribe, with the family Bembicidae, with which, however, according to my views, it has no relationship whatever. It is in reality much closer allied to the Nyssonidae, next to which I have placed it, and from which some of the species are separated with difficulty.

The characters made use of in my table of families will, however, I think readily separate these three families, and it is unnecessary to repeat them here.

I have found the discussion of the identity of Spilosoma congrua, originating with the article by Rev. Dr. Fyles, most interesting, and am tempted to record certain facts not in consonance with the published views of the gentlemen who have already written.

Dr. Fyles appears to argue that cunea may be congrua. He tells us, speaking of textor, that there is one brood in his locality usually spotless and measuring 14 lines, and then states that “southward there is a second brood of textor noted for its variations, this being supposed to be the cunea of Drury.” He then refers to Prof. Riley's figures of cunea (Forest Insects, page 245), and declares that with his series of bred specimens of congrua he can match all of Prof. Riley's figures in maculation, and especially in size.

In the Canadian Entomologist for March, 1899, page 70, Mr. Nathan Banks describes a new species of Brachynemurus under the name tuberculatus. The specimen used in drawing up the description was a female, and as I find a male of this species in the National Museum collection, a description of it is given here:

Brachynemurus tuberculatus, Banks.

Male.—Length, 21.5 mm.; expanse of wings, 33 mm.; greatest width of anterior wing, 3.6 mm.; length of antennae, 4 mm. Much smaller and more slender than the famale.

Messrs. Dyar, Smith, and Grote have given us much interesting information concerning Bombyx cunea, Drury, and insects associated with it. I have hoped that further particulars would be forthcoming, for the position these insects have held in our Entomological lists has not been satisfactorily established.

It is very evident that much perplexity in regard to cunea, and the rest, has existed from Walker's day down to the present time.

Eriococcus borealis, n. sp., ♀.—Sacs on twigs, closely felted, rather rough, broad oval, grayish-white, about 2½ mm. long. Gives no red colour on boiling in caustic potash. Skin after boiling, greenish or grayish, thickly beset with round to oval hyaline spots. Dermal spines only moderately numcrous, 27–45 μ long, the shorter ones more numerous than the longer. Caudal lobes long, brownish, irregularly, cylindrical, about 42 μ broad and 90 μ long. Buccal apparatus about 120 μ broad; rostral loop rather short; mentum rather long.

In a box of Lepidoptera sent to the Division of Entomology, for identification, by Mr. W. A. Dashwood-Jones, of New Westminster, B. G., was a specimen of the above named sphingid. The specimen was kindly named by Dr. J. B. Smith, who wrote of it, saying: “It is a genuine rarity, and in 1888 there was not a specimen known save the type. If I remember rightly, this is the first specimen other than the type that I have ever seen.” Mr. Dashwood-Jones states that this season he took seven specimens of ulalume; and, further, that he takes them every year in his garden, on white lilac blossoms. He mentions that he has never seen this moth anywhere else, but that for a few days in spring they appear to be fairly plentiful.