In No. 9–10, Vol. IV., of “Insect Life,” an account was given of the post-embyronic larva of the Bean Weevil, attention being called to some most interesting characteristics of this larva, which is possessed of temporary thoracic legs and some other strctures which admirably serve its locamotive needs until it has entered the bean, when, with a cast of the skin, they are lost and larva assumes the ordinary apodous form of weevil larvæ.

Since the larval history of this beetle was published by Walsh in 1868 it has been generally known that the larva is carnivorous, feeding, as Walsh showed, upon the Plum Curculio, and, as I showed, on the Apple Worm among other insects, so that it must be included among our benefical species. The larva is also one of those which is quite often found during the winter months upon the surface of snow. The beetle is one of the most common species during the summer months upon many kinds of flowers, but particularly upon those of Yucca, feeding principally on pollen, but also sipping the slight amount of nectar which is found at the base of the pistil, or the sweetened exudation which is also quite frequent upon the tip of the petiole of the flower after this has dropped.

By favour of the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, I have received a copy of the “Revision of the species of Mamestra by John B. Smith, Professor of Entomology, Rutgers College, Washington, 1891 ”. There are one or two points only upon which I desire here to comment. As a whole the determinations agree with my own. The genus Dianthoecia is merged with Mamestra, as I at one time proposed from the variability in the same species of the ovipositor. But, as I pointed out in my last Check List, p. 13, the characters of Dianthoecia, Bdv., are taken from the habit of the larva, the button-like termination of the wing cases in the chrysalis and the extended ovipositor in the moth.

In the Can. Ent., p. 136, Prof. Smith says that our reference of Edema? transuersata, Walk., in 1868, to lignicolor is an error. In other cases e. g. Apantesis radians, etc., our testimony is borne out, and now comes up the question of a changing in specimeus since 1868. Mr. Walker's specimens are not marked type, but placed merely above the label. They can have been changed, and the question is, whether a name of Walker's can be employed which in any way contradicts in its description the supposed species. In my Revised Check List 4, I say: “Clearly there is room for misapprehension of what specimens are really types had we not a check for the reference. This is the criterion for types, that they do not contradict the original description,”

In March number, Vol. XXIV, of Canadian Entomologist, Mr. W. G. Wright of California, mentions a number of genera of diurnals not requiring plants for oviposting thereon. Those enumerated belong to Parnassisu, Argynnis, Euptoieta, Neonympha, Cœnonympha, Hipparchia, Satyrus, Chionobas, and, in part, Chrysophanus. I can add Melitæ to his list, which oviposited on two different occasions under circustmances extraordinary but exactly the same.

The late Mr. W. S. Foster sent me some years ago a list of Lepidoptera taken by himself in 1888 at Marshall Pass, Colorado, which deserves to be put on record as a contribution to the knowledge of alpine entomology. The collecting was done at altitudes from 10,000 to 13,000 feet, on the slopes of the Continental Divide and Mt. Ouray, on the north side of the railroad track. This is in Saguache county, and about forty miles from the district in Custer county, of which the alpine insects are recorded in Can. Entom., 1890.

All of the following species were determined by Dr. P.L.R. Uhler:- Lioderma ligata, Stal.

In coitu on mesquite (P. juliflora), July 14. It was found numerous on Chinese cabbage on college farm July 16.

Mozena obtusa, Uhler MS.

Taken in July on Prosopis juliflora. In coitu July 8.

Marshall is the county seat of Saline county, about twenty miles south of the Missouri River and eighty-nine miles east of Kansas City, and situated among woods and fields; on the west and south open farming country, and on the east and north for three or four miles woods.

I have been collecting here for three years, and believing that a list of butterflies which are found here may be interesting to others I present this list.