136 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Soc. ii., 86, Messrs. Grote and Robinson make this Walker species a 

 synonym of Ja?iassa ligiiicolor ; but this is an error. The species is a 

 very well marked one and not easily mistakeable for any other. It must 

 be known in future as Ellida transversata and the specific name is not 

 entirely inappropriate if the maculation be used as guide. 



Heterocampa semiplaga, Wlk, 



1861— Wlk., Can. Nat. and Geol. vi., 37. 



This is Heterocampa pulverea, G. & R., Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. i., 185, 

 pi. iv., f 32. 



The type of this species is in the collection of the Entomological 

 Society of Ontario, part of the D'Urban material determined by Walker. 

 In the 9th volume of the Canadian Entomologist Mr. Grote gives some 

 notes on a number of the species named by Mr. Walker, but he seems not 

 to have had all of Walker's i)apers, as he omits all reference to the species 

 described in the one above cited. To the courtesy of Mr. J- Alston 

 Moffat I owe an opportunity of examining these omitted species, and 

 the above is one of them ; the others are noctuids. to be elsewhere 

 commented on, 



Cossus basalis, Wlk. 



Mr. Henry Edwards has published the synonymy of this species, and 

 I desire here to merely call attention to the fact that the specimen 

 described by- Walker is figured by Abbot, who took it "19 August in 

 oak woods." The synonymy is given under No. 1434, in my Eist of 

 Lepidoptera. 



Zeuzera pyrina, Linn. 



Walker gives North America as a locality for this insect. This would 

 be interesting if true, and would prove that the insect is not a compara- 

 tively recent importation as has been supposed. I have not been able to 

 find anything either in the British Museum collection or in the records to 

 warrant Walker's citation, and I am not willing to accept it as evidence 

 without some decided support. 



The above comprise all the notes made by me on the earlier series of 

 Heterocera. The time at my disposal was limited, and it would require 

 three or four days work at least to look over the material carefully. It is 

 more than likely that some of the species which I did not see have been 

 removed to other series where I did not keep a lookout for them. A k\v 

 at least of the names are disposed of here. 



