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to visit a certain marsh at the far end of a lake about half a mile 

 long, which lies between densely wooded hills not far from the 

 hotel. In order to reach it I had to struggle through a dense black 

 spruce swamp extending the entire length of the lake. Now a 

 black spruce swamp is always enticing to me, but on this occasion 

 I had had enough of it by the time I reached the marsh, without 

 the return trip, and the worst of it was that when I did arrive 

 there no dragon-flies were to be seen, except a very few of C. 

 resolutum and -E. calverti. 



It was here though, and at the other marsh, that I found the 

 sole representatives of the Order Orthoptera which I came across 

 in Newfoundland. These were a very few young nymphs of Chor- 

 thippus ciirtipennis Harr,, one of the most common and wide- 

 spread of Canadian grasshoppers. The season was certainly very 

 backward, but, in spite of this, one would have expected to find 

 at least the nymphs of the commoner grasshoppers in the fields 

 and clearings. I searched for these in vain, however. Morgan 

 Hebard has recently published a list of six species of Orthoptera 

 from Newfoundland (Ent. News, XXV, p. 306, 1915), two of 

 which (C. curtipennis and Melanoplus fasciatus) were already 

 known to occur there, and my colleague. Dr. A. G. Huntsman, 

 brought me three species from the Bay of Islands, taken in 1915, 

 and all included in Mr. Hebard's list. Our commonest field grass- 

 hoppers, Melanoplus femur-ruhnim and M. atlanis, are unknown 

 in the island, a.nd it is quite probable that they do not occur there. 

 No crickets have been taken and only one long-horned grasshopper 

 or "stone-cricket," Ceuthophiliis terrestris Scudd. The absence of 

 these common and widespread insects is interesting, but it is only 

 part of a general condition characteristic of this island, of which 

 i shall have more to say later. 



(to ce continued). 



SOME NEW RACES AND SPECIES OF NORTH 

 AMERICAN LEPIDOPTERA. 



BY \VM. BARNES, M.D., AND J. MCDUNNOUGH, FH.D. 



DlURNALS 



Basilarchia arthemis rubrofasciata, subsp. nov. 



A series before us of 6 cT's and 1 9 from Northwestern 

 Canada shows certain constant points which we think warrants 



Ji'K, 1916 



