1897-] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 99 



Lyccena comyntas common. 



pseudargiolus two forms ; common. 

 Ancyloxypha numitor common. 

 Pamphila peckius 



zabulon 



hobomok 



Pyrgus tessellata for the first time, last and this year. 

 Eudamus bathylus common. 



tityrns common. 

 Insects were rather scarce in Summer and Fall of last year. 



Mr. C. V. PIPER'S article in March number of ENT. NEWS recalls to 

 my mind a similar experience (see ENT. NEWS, vol. v, pp. 167 and 168). 

 As I am not familiar with the species of Coccinellidae, I cannot say that 

 the species was transversoguttata, but certain it is, that the insects noted 

 in such great numbers on the mountain in Utah and at an elevation of 

 probably 9000 feet were members of the same genus. The impression 

 made upon my mind by what seemed to me so remarkable a flight will 

 not soon be effaced, and I, too, desire to know why the Coccinellidae were 

 there. A similar flight on the part of Cantharis nuttallii would prove 

 that other insects do move in the same manner. In the article above re- 

 ferred to I noted two similar observations concerning this insect. A 

 reasonable inference would seem to be that the insects were in search of 

 food, but were controlled by the wind and sometimes carried to destruc- 

 tion. ARTHUR). SNYDER. 



THYATIRA RECTANGULATA Ottolengui IN CANADA. In the February 

 number of ENT. NEWS, p. 26, Mr. Ottolengui states that the specimens 

 of Thyatira that he has seen from Canada have all been the typical scrip/a. 

 The new species, however, also occurs here. In August, 1896, I took a 

 nice example of rectangulata at Little Metis (Rimouski County), Quebec, 

 a village on the south shore of the river St. Lawrence, about 200 miles 

 below Quebec, and I have also taken the species in the neighborhood of 

 Montreal, but in both localities it is rarer than scripta. The label " Hud- 

 son Bay Territory" on the British Museum specimen is very vague, but 

 if the species occurs along the lower St. Lawrence there is no reason why 

 it should not also be found in some part of the vast district which was 

 formerly known under this name. It is a pity that all descriptions of new 

 species of Lepidoptera could not be accompanied by figures like the ex- 

 cellent one in the February number, and I think it would be interesting 

 to many of the readers of the NEWS to have an article on the cost of such 

 cuts by some one of the leading photo-engravers.* A. F. WINN, West- 

 mouth, Quebec. 



* Half-tone cuts cost 25 cents a square inch. ED. 



