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Barpalus spadiceus, Dej. Length -33-38. Rufo-piceous, legs and anten- 

 nae ferruginous. Head smooth, rather large, mandibles long ; thorax one-half 

 wider than head, a little wider than long, sides broadly rounded, not at all 

 depressed, strongly narrowed behind, basal angles obtuse, not rounded, basal 

 fovea} narrow, shallow, more or less punctured, disk smooth, somewhat con- 

 vex; elytra oval, widest a little behind the middle, strise deep, impunctured, 

 interstices convex with a dorsal puncture on the third near the second stria, 

 behind the middle, elytra not opaque or reticulate in either sex. This beetle 

 resembles H. herbivagus in color and size, but is more robust (convex), and 

 in this respect more like H.fallax, Lee, and H. Pleuriticus, Kirby, but 

 differs from both by the larger head and mandibles, and the strongly narrowed 

 thorax posteriorly ; it resembles in form of thorax, H. viridiaeneus, but is 

 still more strongly narrowed behind. Not common in New England; two 

 examples from Massachusetts. 



The above descriptions comprise most of our species whose form is so well 

 marked, as to be most readily recognized, and not easily confounded with 

 others. 



The reader is requested to make the following correction in my first paper : 

 — Page 46, line 15 from top, after " this paper" insert " (4);" and at line 

 22, for " having" read " the latter, however, has." 



ON THE LARVA OF THEOLd hVORATA, G. & R. 



BY W. SAUNDERS, LONDON, ONT. 



On the 15th of June, 1869, I obtained several Thecla larvae by beating 

 over an umbrella the branches of some small oak trees growing in a cemetery 

 about two miles west of London. Not having met with them before I at 

 once took the following description : 



Length, -40 in., onisciform. Head small, pale greenish-yellow, with a 

 minute black dot on each side. Mandibles pale brown, with a faint whitish 

 patch immediately above them. 



Body above yellowish-green, streaked above with yellowish-white, and 

 thickly covered with fine, short, white hairs ; second segment of rather a 

 darker shade of green than tha rest of the body. A dark green dorsal 

 stripe, on 3rd, Ath and 5th segments, the full width of the dorsal crest; 

 narrow on the four terminal segments, almost obsolete on those intermediate. 

 A faint whitish dorsal line runs through the centre of this stripe. Dorsal 

 crest edeed with yellowish-white, most apparent where it borders the darker 

 portions of dorsal stripe; sides of body with a few faint oblique lines of 

 yellowish-white ; body margined on each side with the same color close to 



