I submit herewith descriptions of 3 species and 3 varieties of Canadian diurnal Lepidoptera, speciments of which have been in my collection for many years, and of which a continued study convinces me that it is wise to characterize them for the benefit of other students of Canadian butterflies. It is possible that some of these may be only local races, but they are so constant that I believe them to be well worthy of recognition. In describing these forms, I have endeavorued to compare them with their nearest allies, as a description, even when accompained by a plate, is more intelligible when a new form can be compared with a well-known standard.

Frons smooth and rounded, with the scales inclining downward, not closely appressed, erect on the vertex; labial palpi ascending, the second segment with more or less separated scales beneath, recalling the genus Choreutis, third segment a little shorter, naked and somewhat pointed; maxillary palpi present; proboscis very short; eyes hemispherical; ocelli absent; antennæ not quite half the length of the costa, ciliate, the ciliæ nearly as long as the diameter of the shaft; thorax with a small tuft at the end above.

Those who visit the pine-barrens of New Jersey know what a pleasure it is to ramble along the narrow wooded-ppaths among the pine trees ; old paths that after once being made continue for many years, and may seldom entertain a pedestrian. Along these paths and by the side of the sandy roads, any time during late summer arrd until frost, one may hear a faint, lisping little song from a grasshopper corning from the pines, often from their topmost branches. It is an easy matter to climb the pitch-pine, which is usually arranged admirably for the purpose, and the grasshopper is also friendly to investigation, and commonly continues to stridulate.

The note in the Canadian Entomologist for April 1903, by the late Prof. A. R. Grote, the one by Mr. J. Wm. Cockle, in the May number for the same year, and the one in the April 1904, number, all relating to this subject, have interested me greatly.

Over 25 years ago I observed and recoreded for the first, I believe, the destruction of the pupæ of our very common Samia cecropia by the Downy Woodpecker, by puncturing the cocoons and feasting on the juices of the occupant. The habit of the insect in attaching its cocoon firmly to and parallel with the twigs and smaller limbs of trees places them at the mercy of these birds, especially during that part of the year when the trees are devoid of foliage.

In his Monograph of the Geometrid Moths, Dr. Packard described and figured two moths as Metanema quercivoraria, Guenée, and Endropia textrinaria. Grote and Robinson. He placed them in different genera and had apparently no doubts as to their distinctness.

On the 6th of June 1903, we found a Thecla caterpillar unknown to us feeding openly upon the berries of Vaccinium corymbosum. Its general colour was bright yellowish-green, which served to render it comparatively inconspicuous while feeding in the midst of a cluster of the unripe fruit. A faint, draker, dorsal stripe and a very minute coral-red spot in the middle of each segment, just above the lateral fold, were the only markings. The head was of a uniform light brown, and the body was clothed with short pile. Length, 12 mm.

Enarmonia Cockleana, sp. nov.— Palpi pale fawn, tipped with black, Front of head or face very pale fawn, top of head and thorax a shade deeper. Fore wing rich reddish chocolate brown, by refracted light, scales prismatic, like burnished copper. A broad fawn-coloured fascia from costa at inner third obliquely to dorsal margin beyond half. A second oblique fascia parallels the first, begins on costa at outer two-thirds, and ends at anal angle; this is broader on costa, and lower half is not so well define.

The crickets, or Gryllidæ, like the other families of Orthoptera, have received so little attention from Canadian entomologists that very few species have been reported from the country, and most of these few records are of little value, as they were made at a time when the family had been little studied, and the species wre ill define. Much has been done of late, however, by American entomologists, notably Sucuder and Blatchely, to unravel these difficulites, although the family is still a very diffucult one to deal with, and much patience and close observation is necessary in order to separate the species satisfactorily.

Scarcely any two men who have studied the Lycosidæ have interpreted or defined the genera of the family wholly in the same way. The purely relative nature of the characters most frequently used in separating the species into genera leaves room for much diversity in opinion and usage; and, in consequence, it is not surprising to find that genera used without question by one arachnologist are by others unhesitatingly relegated to synonymy.