240 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Coenonympha typho7i^ Rott. If this is not a variety of the European 

 form it is most likely a new species. Two examples only. 

 Pamphila Manitoba, Scud. 

 Pamphila cernes, Bdl.-Lec. ' 

 Thymelicus garita, Reak. 

 Nisoniades icelus, Lint. 



CORRESPONDENCE. 



A RARE MOTH. 



Dear Sir : Allow me to record the capture, in Canada, of the rare 

 moth Thysania (Erebus) Ze?iobia, Cramer. 



On the evening of Aug. 20th, 1888, while sugaring for Catocala in the 

 woods near this village, I came upon the strange visitor. He was sitting, 

 with wings spread, sipping my bait, and was evidently more at ease than 

 I. The sensation which a hunter is said to experience on sighting his 

 first deer came upon me, for I was unprepared for such an encounter. 

 However, the monster was taken. 



By a careful comparison of my specimen with the descriptions and 

 with Drury's figure of T. Zenobia, and by submitting it to three different 

 Entomologists of eminence, all of whom concur in my opinion, I have 

 placed its identity beyond a doubt. 



The only reference, as far as I can find, heretofore published of its 

 occurrence in North America is in the following foot-note in Prof. Grote's 

 Check List of Noctuidse North of Mexico, P. II., page 43 (1876), viz.: — 

 " Professor Riley informs me that this species occurred at Davenport." 



In Vol. XVIII. , page 236, of this Journal, Prof Grote mentions 

 Thysania Zenobia as one of the " species which are probably summer 

 birds of passage from the West Indies and South America, following the 

 Gulf Stream, or aided by prevailing winds." 



Drury gives Jamaica as its habitat. 



It is hard to believe that so frail a creature as an insect, though strong 

 in flight, could have flown two thousand miles, but the ragged condition 

 of the margins of the primaries in my insect, while all the other parts are 

 apparently quite fresh, is evidence of its having fanned many miles of 

 atmosphere. A. H. Kilman, Ridgeway, Ont. 



Mailed December 7th. 



