60 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Kirb}' has ]:)]aced this in his catalogue of Diurnal Lepidoptera as variety 

 "A" of C. Boot/lii Cun\s, and hoih Booihii and Chione were taken in 

 Ross's 2nd voyage, and both the species and variety were described by 

 Curtis, in 1835. It would be a curious coincidence if, after an interval of 

 over half a century this turned out to be a good species. I have written 

 to a friend, who constantly visits the British Museum, for full particulars 

 and description of the specimen in the collection there, and will state his 

 views through the medium of the Canadian Entomologist in a future 

 number. Gamble Geddes, Toronto. 



ARCTIA PHYLLIRA, DRURY. 



Deal- Sir : When I was in London a year ago, working on the 

 Society's collection, I found amongst the Arctians one that clearly did not 

 belong to any of the forms represented therein ; it had the label of A. P. 

 Saunders attached, bearing date July 6th, 1886. Being unknown to me 

 I labelled it "undetermined," and laid it aside ; recently, however, when 

 turning over some of the books in the splendid library of the Society, I 

 found the unnamed Arctian unmistakably represented on plate Ixiv, 

 vol. 2 of Smith & Abbot, and named Phahcna phyllira ; also in West- 

 wood's Drury, vol. i, plate vii, fig. 2. It is quite an attractive form, 

 and new to the Canadian list. Mr. H. S. Saunders also has a specimen, 

 taken at electric light, Sep. 6th, 1887. J. Alston Moffat. 



NOTE. 

 Later on there will certainly be more to be said respecting certain 

 points touched upon by me in the Can. Ent. for 1888, but there are four 

 things it will be useful to refer to now. Since writing on Nathalis iole 

 (p. 156) I have found that there exists a form of the ^ in which the 

 " orange spot " is yellow during life. With regard to the forms of Colias 

 eurytheme in this locality (p. 201), I now find there is a short flight of 

 genuine eriphyle here in September, but the specimens are not so extreme 

 in their divergence from autumnalis as one Mr. W. H. Edwards sent me 

 (locality not stated). I shall have more to say about all these forms of 

 enrytheme later on. The yellow spider on pink flowers (p. 176) and the 

 Asilid fly attacking C. enrytheme (p. 202) have been kindly examined by 

 Dr. C. V. Riley and pronounced to be species of Misiunena and 

 Stenopogon. T. D. A. Cockerell, West Cliff, Col. 



Mailed March 7th. 



