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wing on the underside is very pale and void of all markings, 

 otherwise the insect is normal. 



Grapta interrogationis Fab.; dimorphic form fabricii Ed\v. 

 Normal in form and coloration, but has an odd-shaped hole in 

 the subapical space of the right primary, and in the secondary 

 on the same side has a large egg-shaped hole near the outer mar- 

 gin, just above the tail. No doubt this specimen, which is a male, 

 was injured in the chrysalid state. 



Limenitis disippus Godt. One female of the usual form and 

 size, but with a large white blotch on the anal margin on the 

 upperside of secondaries extending from the discal cell to the 

 edge of the anal margin; the underside of the primaries normal, 

 but the same side of secondaries is suffused with much white. 



During the -Summer of 1892 I took the following species that 



I never met in my locality before: Terms nicippe i and i ? , 



Vanessa milberti i and Thecla strigosa i , while Euptoieta 



claudia was very common. These are not rare insects by any 



means, but they seem rare around Pittsburgh. 



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DONACIA. 

 By Gus CHAGNON, Montreal. 



The neighborhood of Montreal, Canada, is undoubtedly the 

 locality where, I think, the genus Donacia is the most largely 

 represented. Thirteen of the (twenty) species described in Mr. 



C. W. Leng's valuable paper, " Synopsis of Donacia of Boreal 

 America" can be found here. 



Last July I visited a small pond a few miles from this city, and 

 on the large leaves of Nymphcea and other plants growing on its 

 shore, I captured Donacia emarginata, D. subtilis, D. flavipes, 



D. palmata, D. piscatrix, D. distincla, D. pubescens, D. pusilhi, 

 and two varieties of D. cincticornis. 



Provancher, in his " Coleopteres de la prov. de Quebec" re- 

 cords four other species, viz., D. harrisii, D. hirticollis, D. 

 czqualis, D. rufa, and says that they are to be found between 

 here and Quebec. This total of thirteen species for Montreal 

 must be extraordinary when they are only twenty in all Boreal 

 America. 



Sphceridium scarabczoides, which has been introduced from 

 Europe, is now very common here. I had the pleasure to send 

 several specimens of it to Dr. Geo. H. Horn. 



