Driving from Hudson to Como on the 23rd of Septemberm, 1892, about 8 p.m. the night being warm and damp, I was much surprised to see on the hard road something luminous, emitting quite as strong a light as the glow-worm in England. We stopped quickly, but before I could get back the few yards it had disappeared. Some half mile further we passed another, which also, before I could get to it, disappeared. Can any of your readers say what these were? Their sudden disappearance and our failing to find them, though we struck a mathc in both cases, would lead me to think they were some sort of earth worm, as these draw themselves quickly into their holes when disturbed. How else is their sudden disappearance to be accounted for?

Mr. Samuel H. Scudder, in the Report of the Ontario Entomological Society for 1892, gives an interesting account of the “Songs of Our Grasshoppers and Crickets,” and kindly permits the stridulations of a number of Staten Island insects to be heard mid the general medley. There is however, an additional songster to be added to this list, as appears from the following.

Most modern European writers follow Tulleburg in placing all the Collembola in the family Poduridœ, and including the Poduridœ, Lipuridœ and Anouridœ of Lubbock in the subfamily Lipurinœ. It would seem more natural to restrict the name Poduridœ to those genera bearing the saltatory apparatus on the antepenultimate abdominal segment, instead of the penultimate, and then to include those genera in which the saltatorial apparatus is wanting under the name Aphoruridœ*

The next annual meeting of the Royal Society of Canada will be held in the City of Ottawa, on the 23rd, 24th and 25th of May. The Society will be represented by Mr. Hague Harrington, our Vice-President. We notice by the Programme that Mr. Harrington is to read a paper on Canadain Uroceridæ, a subject to which he has given much attention.

Anisopogon ludius, n. sp. ♂.—Black, the tibiæ and tarsi dark reddish brown. Face gently convex, white pilose, bristles of lower part black; first joint of antennæ slightly longer than the second, the third joint tapering to the tip, three times as long as the second, the style slender, seven-eights as long as the third antennal joint; pile of occiput, thorax, pleura, coxæ and venter white; upper side of each front tarsal joint with a dense covering of appressed white hairs; upper side of middle femora toward its apex with a dense covering of short appressed black hairs, which, however, leave a large elliptical naked space between the apex and the middle; middle tibiae white pilose in front, and above the middle ornamented with a large patch of appressed black hairs and bristles, which form an inner and an outer fringe; inner side of hind tibiae near the tip, and also of the hind metatarsi, densely bright yellow pubescent; wings smoky brown, lightest at the apex and along the hind margin; all posterior and the anal cell open.

Colias Behrii, Edw.

Egg.—Spindle shapted, a little contraced just before the tip, with low longitudinal and transverse ridges, which divide the surface into shallow, rectangular parallelograms. Length, 1.3 mm.; width, .6 mm. The eggs are laid singly on the upper side of the leaves of a species of ground huckleberry, its food plant.

First stage.—Head rounded, dark brown; width; .25 mm. Body of normal shape, sordid whitish, apparently without marks; minutely pilose.

The material forming the basis of this paper was sent to me last October by Prof. C. V. Riley for determination. The species were collected by H.H. Smith in St. Vincent, West Indies, and are among the most interesting forms of this remarkable family.

In Vol.XXII., p. 120, of Can. Ent., Prof. Smith calls attention to the fact that the above name awaits identification, and says: “There should be no difficulty in indentifying this species, should it turn up.” The moth was described by Walker as Cycnia, referred by Grote and Robinson to Phragmatobia, and lastly by Kirby to Estigmene (=Leucarctia). It has occurred to me that this form has already been turned up, and by Mr. Bruce, as described in Entom. Amer., Vol. III.m p. 140, where it was shown to be a form a Spilosoma virginica.

In an original memoir on the Zygaenidœ, published by the Essex Institute, Dr. Packard explained the relation of Castnia and allied genera to the European genus Zygaena, and contended for the solidarity of the group as the equivalent of the large family of Bombycidæ in the Latreillean sense. The view, advocated by Agassiz, that form was a family criterion, not only form in general, but form of parts undelying form in general, obtained.

Full-grown larva.—Length, two inches. Colour greenish-brown above, greenish-grey beneath. Pale dorsal and side lines. Spiracles black. Head and scale on second segment light reddish-brown; jaws darker brown. This description agrees with that given by Mr.Caulfield in Vol, XIII. of the Canadian Entomologist, page 132.

Mr. Butler (P.Z.S., 1892, p. 133) remarks concerning the Hyblœidœ (Hyblœinœ, I would rather write) as follows:-

“The position of this family is somewhat doubtful; the aspect of the species forcibly reminds one of the Tortrices, but the neutration does not altogether correspond with that of the Tortricidœ; at the same time the Hyblœidœ do not appear to be true Noctuites.”

Archilithabius malterris, sp. n.—Prosternal teeth, 2+2. Ocelli, 10–12, arranged in 3 rows. Antennal articles, 21. Coxal pores, 2, 3, 3, 2–3, 3, 4, 3, or 10–13, round. Spines on the first pair of legs, 2, 3, 1; on the penultimate pair, 1, 3, 3, 1; on the anal pair, 1, 3, 2, 0. Claw of female genitalia entire. Slender light chestnut, head darker. Joints of antennæ rather long. Length, 12—13 mm.

In our last number, pages 272–5, the lists of Coleoptera were unfortunately disarranged in making up the forms.

In that most useful paper, the “Directions for Collecting and Preserving Insects,” by Dr. C. V. Riley, Washington, 1892, occurs the statement, on page 137, that the periodical, the North American Entomologist, was “published by the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences.” The fact is that the little monthly, which only reached its first volume, was edited by myself, and printed and published by Reinecke & Zeschm a Buffalo printing house. The material was written or collected together by myself, and the few plates, mostly contributed by the authors, were gotten up at my sole trouble, and even expense.

Some time ago Mr.Henry G. Willard, of Grinnell, Iowa, very kindly sent me of the full grown larvæ of this species. I made a few notes at the time which may be of use, owing to the fact that nothing has been publihsed in regard to the early stages of this butterfly. The food plant at the home of the insect is Rumex longifolius, but they readily ate our common species of dock found here. The full grown larva were onisciform in shape, grass greein in colour, and 20 mm in length. Most of them had a narrow, claret-coloured dorsal stripe, and the entire body, under a glass, was seen to be clothed with minute black hairs.

The lac-producing Coccidæ are usually referred to the genus Carteria, Signoret, but as this name is pre-occupied in Protozoa, Signoret (Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr., 1886) substitued for it the term Tachardia.