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refused to eat, and thus suicided. The remaining eggs I scut to 

 Mr. W. H. Edwards, hut they failed to hatch. The female pano- 

 quin differs from the other sex in being larger, several shade-, 

 darker in color, and in having the maculations on the supt -ri< >r 

 wings much more sharply defined and brighter in color. Then 

 is a prominent light colored streak on the inferiors nearly one- 

 quarter inch in length, which is either wanting or only indicated 

 in the male. 



A colony of full grown funonia ctenia larva- were found feeding 

 on Gerardia tenuifoliuni, which. as lar as I know, is a new food- 

 plant for the spccic-s. 



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NOTES ON COLEOPTERA. 



I5V GEO. H. HORN, M. I). 



From the remarks of Mr. Fauvel ( Revue Ent. 1889, p. 142) it 

 is evident that two species of Cryptolivpnus have been confounded 

 under one name by many of the Coleopterists of Europe, notably 

 by Dr. Candeze, whose work has been accepted as authority on 

 the family ELATERID.K for many years. It is pardonable in 

 students on this side of the Atlantic if they are found guilty of 

 an error due to, or rather copied from, those who should be final 

 authority on the species of the fauna around their own home.-,. 



C. pulchellus Linn., c.viginis Rand., gnttalnlus Mets. 



The above line appears in Dr. Hamilton's paper on the Cole- 

 optera of the sub-arctic regions eommon to both hemispheres. 



From the remarks of Fauvel two speeies have been confounded 

 under pulc/i din s, \\luVh have a ^reat superficial similarity ; these 

 an- : 



C. pulchellus Linn. Thorax with posterior angles sinuate, di- 

 \er-ent and acute at the apex, the stria- of the elytra obsolete at 

 the tip. 



( '. sabit/ico/a l!oh. Thorax with posterior angles arcuate, 

 rather incurved, obtuse at apex, elytra deeply striate, the im< i 

 \-als subeostitorin. 



Any one who will read the descriptions of Randall and Mels- 



heimer, which are remarkably - 1, will see that \\ e ha\c in our 



taiiu, i puli -Jicllux as described by l ; aii\el. 



