62 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



a. That Mr. Durnford captured this specimen of Liphyra near a 

 colony of scale insects, which was so large as to attract his attention and 

 lead him to put a few of them into papers. 



b. That this female was engaged in oviposition just before she was 

 captured by Mr. Durnford, and that the mealy white deposit which Durn- 

 ford spoke of as " fluff," which Mr. Biggs compared to mould or mildew, 

 is nothing else than fragments of the white covering of the scale insects, 

 over and among which the butterfly had been flying while engaged in the 

 act of laying her eggs. 



If my conclusion is correct, and it seems to me that there can be no 

 question of its correctness, we have a second species to add to the list of 

 those Lepidoptera, the larvee of which are carnivorous, or aphidivorous, 

 or coccivorous, as the reader pleases. 



Light is also thrown by this discovery upon the generic relationship of 

 Feniseca and Liphyra. The two are brought together into the same 

 group. The classification of the Lycaenidge of the world is as yet not 

 fixed upon a final basis, but we are gradually reaching just conclusions. 

 For my part, I would fail to agree with the assertion of my good friend, 

 Mr. Edwards, to the effect that Feniseca is to be referred to the Erycinidse. 

 The formation of the legs, the neuration, the shape of the antennae and 

 of the chrysalis, is such as to convince me that no mistake has been made 

 in putting this genus among the Lycaenidae. The fact that the larva pre- 

 sents points of difference from the larva of such a species as Z. Pseudar- 

 giolus, or Chrysophanus Americana, should not weigh as against these 

 other points in fixing the generic relationship. 



NATURAL HISTORY NOTES ON COLEOPTERA— No. 3. 



BY JOHN HAMILTON, M. D., ALLEGHENY, PA. 



Cicindela piinctulata Fab. The Cicindelas are generally regarded as 

 diurnal, many of them appearing only during the hottest sunshine and 

 disappearing if there comes but a cloud. In one xts^Qct pttnctulata is an 

 exception, for while it flies by day like the others, it is occasionally (if not 

 habitually) a night-flier. Several times late in summer it has been taken 

 on my table at night, attracted by the light, and last autumn in a house in 



