238 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



ferous warts only about half the size of stigmata, very pale brown and 

 polished, each supporting a fine hair of a faintly yellowish color, of which 

 those on the posterior row of warts are much the longest and are directed 

 forward. Similar long hairs are also on the head, thorax, around the 

 margin of the anal plate and along the sides of the body. Legs con- 

 colorous with body. 



Pupa. — Average length 7 mm. Brownish-yellow. Stigmata brown. 

 A dorsal, dark brown, transverse band, anteriorly on last joint. Tip 

 broad, almost straight, having a small tooth at each angle, and along its 

 inferior edge four fine yellowish-brown bristles, twisted and directed 

 forward. Abdomen shallowly punctate. 



In the series of American Phycids, this species naturally follows 

 indiginella, and it is at once distinguished from this, from juglandis Le- 

 Baron, and from fallouella Ragonot — its nearest European ally — by the 

 obsolescence of the triangular costal patch. 



Mr. Grote in his last " Check Hst of N. A. Moths," has suppressed 

 Acrobasis Zeller, and referred this little group of Phycids to 

 " Phycis Haw." He has also made juglatidis a variety of indigin- 

 ella. These changes I regard as unjustifiable. Phycis as a 

 genus was founded by Fabricius, and Haworth's Phycis com- 

 prised nearly all the species of the family, and the name has long been 

 abandoned in modern more exact classifications ; while the full 

 descriptions, figures and larval histories of indiginella and juglandis in 

 my 4th Rep. on the Insects of Mo. (pp. 38-43) prove beyond all question 

 the specific value of both. 



There is a Nephopteryx vacciniella Zeller or Vaccinium uliginosum in 

 Europe, and for this reason I have dropped the conventional termination 

 in the name of our species. 



NOTE ON INEQUALITY OF THE ELYTRA IN ALAUS 



OCULATUS. 



BY C. H. T. TOWNSEND, CONSTANTINE, MICH. 



On 19th October, 1884, I took from a decaying hickory stump a 

 specimen of Alaus oculaUts (Linn.), which had its left elytron .75 mm. 

 shorter than its right. This seemed to me a curious and very noticeable 

 deformity, and one I had never before observed. But on 13th December 



