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and yellow moth from Colorado, resembling this genus or Anisota 

 r7ibicimda in colours. I would not describe it, but returned it as a proba- 

 bly new Noctuid. The figure of Etihyparpax distantly recalls the speci- 

 men, which must be in coll. Central Park Museum. The. figure (Plate 

 VI., 14) certainly does not look like a Ptilodont, rather like an Agrotid, 

 but, especially an uncoloured figure, may be deceptive. 



A short classification of the MelalopJiidce may be found in ' Ento- 

 mologist's Record,' VIII., 107, but I find since that Phalera, Hiibn. 

 Verz., 147, 1816, is preoccupied by Phaleria, Latreille, 1804. Another 

 name must be used for the genus of bucephala and the subfamily of which 

 I made it the type. As to Datana, I rather missed an allusion to the 

 fact that Grote and Robinson first drew attention that there were many 

 closely allied species, and to the characters of the uneven margin, differ- 

 ences in the lines and general tinting which serve to distinguish the 

 moths. One paper in Vol. VI. of the Proceedings Ent. Soc, Phil., was 

 an answer to the criticism passed by the late Mr. Walsh upon our 

 previously described Datana perspicua. There is still a memorandum 

 in my note-book of a reference in this genus which I do not seem to have 

 published and which I do not find in either Packard or Dyar. 



A. Radcliffe Grote, A. M. 



Preliminary Notes on the Orthoptera of Nova Scotia; by Harry 

 Piers. Transactions of the N. S. Institute of Science, Vol. IX., 1896. 



So little attention is paid to Entomology in the Maritime Provinces 

 that we gladly welcome this contribution to the subject and are much 

 pleased that Mr. Piers intends to devote some years to the study of the 

 order Orthoptera. The paper before us gives some very interesting notes 

 on the habits and range of fourteen common species of cockroaches, 

 crickets, and locusts, and describes more at length the ravages committed 

 by Melanoplns atlanis on Sable Island, a hundred miles off the coast of 

 Nova Scotia in the Atlantic Ocean. C. J. 8. B. 



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