166 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Tachiiiathedartim, parasitic on No. 30 ( Thecla inorata). Mr. W. 

 Saunders. From life. Length 5 m.m. 



Back of head steel gray, covered with short blackish hairs ; front 

 pale or whitish slate color, with darker reflections and with a vertical 

 broad, blackish, frontal band ; on eicher side a slightly curving row, out- 

 wardly concave, of black, curving, tapering bristles, directed upward, 

 extending down the front from the summit to below the base of the 

 antenna ; outside of the middle of this row a pair of similar downward 

 directed bristles ; a pair of downward directed bristles near the middle of 

 the summit. Antennae dark slate color. Eyes rich brown, covered with 

 exceedingly delicate, short, white pile. 



Thorax above dark brown with a hoary bloom, covered by frequent, 

 erect, short, black hairs, and infrequent, decumbent, backward directed, 

 large, black, tapering bristles ; metanotum edged broadly behind with 

 reddish brown ; thorax and abdomen beneath piceous j covered profusely 

 with long black hairs. Abdomen above shining piceous, first joint im- 

 maculate, second and third, especially latter, silvery or nacreous at base, 

 obscure in the middle, fading out posteriorly ; fourth segment nacreous at 

 extreme base only ; all profusely covered with long black hairs ; second 

 segment with a pair of erect, slightly curving, very long and tapering sub- 

 dorsal bristles at the posterior border ; third segment bristling with a 

 transverse row of similar bristles, a dozen or more in number. 



Legs black ; claws black; pulvilli pale or colorless ; tongue testaceous ; 

 covered profusely at tip vv^ith rather long colorless hairs ; labial palpi 

 blackish-brown. 



SOME NOTES ON THE GENUS COLIAS WHILST ALIVE IN 



THE IMAGO STATE. 



(Being extracts from a paper read before the Entomological Society of Ontario, 



Oct. 2oth, 1SS6.) 



BY GAMBLE GEDDES, TORONTO. 



The paper which I have prepared to read upon the genus Co/ias 

 differs from any that I have consulted up to the present time, in that it 

 treats principally of the habits of the different species during lifetime in 

 the imago state. 



During the last ten years gigantic strides have been made by lepidop- 



