80 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Ammoconia to our fauna. A. badicollis Grote, referred to that genus in the 

 List, is a true Agrotis. I have examined the two European species of this- 

 genus, and am satisfied that it can not be retained there. 



I remain vours trulv, 

 H. K. Morrison. 



Dr. Harris, writing to Hentr. (Harr. Cor., p. n), says : " Have you 

 ever seen a Rhagium ? In January I obtained from beneath the bark of 

 a tree nearly twenty males and females of R. lineatum Oliver.'' 



My object in writing is to ask your readers if they have ever found 

 R. lineatum at such a time of the year and in such a situation. In the 

 summer of 1873 (being absent from home I cannot give the exact dates 

 but probably in May or June) I spent a week in Baltimore, Md., and 

 every morning captured several examples of this species on the walls of a 

 church — none elsewhere. I learned from Mr. Baumhauer, of that city, 

 that he also had taken the same species at the same place several year r 

 in succession. W. V. Andrews, New York. 



RARE CAPTURES. 



On the 15th Sept., as my brother and myself were returning from an 

 Entomological foray, I saw something like a flash of orange light flit past 

 me, and turning, I saw an insect which I did not know was found here, 

 viz., Colias eury theme. Away it was flying like a ray of sunlight, flitting 

 from flower to flower, resting only for about the smallest conceivable 

 portion of time, and it was only after a long and exciting chase that I 

 managed to capture my prize. It was in beautiful condition, apparently 

 just fresh from chrysalis, and I consider myself very lucky in obtaining it. 



Among our rarities, I would also mention a very fine specimen of 

 Smerinthus modesta which I obtained from a friend who found it clinging 

 to the eaves of his cottage. We have also among our Catocalidae, a speci- 

 men of C. coucumbens with abdomen of a bright pink on the upper- 

 surface, closely resembling the European C. pacta in this respect, only the 

 color is not quite so vivid. C. W. Pearson, Montreal. 



Corrections. — Gaspe' is on the south shore of the St. Lawrence,, 

 opposite Anticosti. In my note on p. 18 regarding P. brevicauda, you 

 make it north. Also, Mr. Edward's name should have been inserted as 

 the writer of the leading quotation in the article on Glaucopsyche Couperi.. 

 — Wm. Couper, 67 Bonaventure St., Montreal. 



