160 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



CORRESPONDENCE. 



Brotis Vulneraria Again. 



One of the many line things secured by Mr. Bice at electric Hght 

 daring the season of 1896 was a specimen of that perplexing aberrant 

 Lepidopteron, Brotis vulneraria., Hub. « 



In the Canadian Entomologist for 1886, Vol. XVIII. , page 72, Mr. 

 Ph. Fischer reports the capture of a specimei in Buffalo at electric light 

 and gives some description of it and an account of tlie difficulty ex- 

 perienced by the various authors to decide its position in systematic 

 classification. At page 136 the Rev. G. D. Hulst comments on that 

 report and gives farther information upon the subject, and quotes Walker 

 as saying that " it does not seem to fit well anywhere." 



Mr. Fischer identified his specimen by Hubner's figure. I had no 

 difficulty in recognizing the London specimen by Guenee's illustration of 

 it in his Lepidopteres Phalenites, plate 22, fig. 9, under the generic name 

 Sphacelodes, but was indebted to Dr. J. B. Smith for a clue to its location 

 in his List of 189 1. I had forgotten these notices, where Dr. Hulst 

 gives its generic synonymy, and the cause of it, although I read them 

 with interest mingled with curiosity at the time, knowing nothing what- 

 ever of the moth referred to. 



It is an interestingly anomalous insect. Whether in a tropical col- 

 lection it has fitting associates with which it may harmonize and bear a 

 resemblance, it certainly stands out conspicuously distinct in the Ontario 

 one to which Mr. Bice has kindly donated it. J. Alston Moffat. 



PoDisus Placidus. 

 In the May number of this journal Mr. Kirkland, of the Gypsy Moth 

 Committee, publishes the descriptions of two Pentatomids by Mr. Uhler — 

 Fodisus placidus and Euschistiis politus.. Of Podisus placidus he says 

 he was unable to find the original description, nor could Prof. Uhler at 

 the time give liim the reference. This description may be found in the 

 American Ento.nologist, Vol. IL, page 203. E. P. Van Duzee. 



Buffalo, N. Y. 



Erratum. — On page lor, seventh line from bottom, for Dorvlid/E 

 read Myrmilid^,. 



Mailed June 4lh, 1S97. 



