132 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Among a large number bred, the males were nearly constant in their 

 markings, varying slightly in the size of the spots near the outer margin 

 of the hindwings and occasionally with the beginning of a transverse line 

 inside the first one on the forewings, shown by a little bending in of the 

 pale on the costal margin so as to sometimes touch the subcostal vein. 

 Some of the females were of this type, but many of them varied from this 

 by having less of the pale colour on the forewings, even to the partial or 

 total obliteration of the inner of the two transverse lines. The tendency 

 with such examples would be to a blending and enlarging of the black 

 spots on the terminal border of the hindwings, and a blending of these 

 with the black of the edge, making a nearly solid terminal border. The 

 red on the hindwings was constant, there being no appreciable difference 

 in this respect between the sexes, as there is in Nais, nor in light or dark 

 examples of either sex. The dark examples would have the- black on the 

 abdomen a little more prominent than on the light. The characteristic 

 marks, straight transverse lines on forewings and veins pale, were constant 

 whatever the other variations might be. In size, my specimens were small 

 from being underfed, as a result of a great many larvae crowded together 

 in a single breeding cage. If they had been separated as much as they 

 naturally would be in feeding in the open fields they would have been as 

 large as caught specimens. 



TWO NEW SPECIES OF CANADIAN PIMPLIN^. 



BY W. HAGUE HARRINGTON, OTTAWA. 



Xorides caryce, n. sp. 



Female. — Length ii to i6 mm. Black with yellowish-white markings. 

 Head swollen, interior orbits, interrupted opposite antennse, and palpi 

 white ; face below antennge punctured, between antennae and ocelli 

 polished ; antennae slender, black. Thorax with the pectus and pleura? 

 finely punctate, polished ; disc of mesothorax transversely rugulose ; 

 metathorax rounded, faintly sulcate medially and rugosely punctured and 

 aciculated ; sides of prothorax, two lines on mesothorax, two spots, some- 

 times confluent, on scutellum, the post-scutellum, the tegulae and a broad 

 stripe on pleura, continued on middle coxa, yellowish-white ; legs, includ- 

 ing coxas, pale rufous or honey-yellow, anterior ones paler, the anterior 

 coxae, stripe on middle coxae outwardly, second joint of trochanters and 

 the knees yellow ; tibiae and tarsi piceous or blackish, the former with a 



