THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 75 



DESCRIPTION OF A NEW LIMACODES. 



BY LEON F. HARVEY, M. D., BUFFALO, N. Y. 



Limacodes laioviia, Ji. s. 



This species is similarly sized with y-inversa, or perhaps a little larger. 

 It is less brightly colored. The fore wings are dusky ochre with two 

 blackish lines ; the first crossing the wing a little obliquely at the middle ; 

 the second before the apex from costa to external margin. The lines do 

 not meet at costa as in its ally. The space between the lines is discolorous, 

 being somewhat grayish. Hind wings more yellowish, concolorous. Be- 

 neath immaculate, like hind wings above. Thorax like fore wings. 

 Antenna simple. Several specimens taken by Belfrage in Bosque Co., 

 Texas; No. 572, May. 



NOTES ON SOME SPECIES OF MELOE OCCURRING IN 

 TEMPERATE NORTH-EASTERN AMERICA. 



BY F. B. CAULFEILD, MONTREAL, P. Q. 



The life history of Meloe, as given by the Editor in the December No. 

 of this journal, agreeing very closely with that of M. aiigusticoUis Say, as 

 far as my knowledge of its habits will permit me to judge, it occurred to 

 me on reading Mr. Brodie's very interesting notes in the January No., 

 that unless we have in this country a double brooded Meloe, some one 

 must be referring another species to Say's angusticollis. 



We have in temperate North-eastern America several species of Meloe 

 closely resembling each other in general appearance, two of which are 

 widely distributed, sometimes, probably often, occuring in the same 

 localities, but I think at different seasons ; the first, M. angusticollis Say, 

 appearing early in May and disappearing before or about the middle of 

 June \ the other, M. americanus Leach, appearing in the latter end of July 

 or beginning of August, and lasting until after the early frosts. 



Having compared specimens of what I believed to be angusticollis with 

 Say's description, I felt satisfied that I had that species, but I took 

 americanus Leach to be rugipennis Lee, from having compared it with 



