186 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



CORRESPONDENCE. 



HEPIALUS 4-GUTTATUS. 



Sir: The statement on page 125 of Can. Ent. for May, that 4-guttatus 

 is a synonym of the typical argenteomaculatus, is incorrect. The type 

 form of the latter is the smaller not pinkish form, and is the argenteo- 

 maculata of the Reports on Ins. Inj. to Vegetation. The form 4-guttatus 

 is apparently that figured in "Lake Superior" by Agassiz. So far as I 

 am able to judge from the short description, in which the colour seems 

 to coincide with 4-guttatus, the writers have apparently redescribed my 

 4-guttatus. A. R. Grote. 



ARGYNNIS ASTARTE. 



Sir: It may interest your readers to know that Argynnis astarte 

 (= Victoria, W. H. Edw., Can. Ent., XXIII., \<fi,fide Strecker, Ent. 

 News, Nov., 1892, p. 218) Double-Hew., which was rediscovered last year 

 by Mr. Bean in the Rocky Mountains near Laggan, is, as far as I can 

 judge from the single specimen he has been good enough to send me, a 

 very near ally, and perhaps not separable from A. amphilochus of 

 Menetries, a species which appears to be either very rare or very local near 

 the head waters of the Amur river in Siberia. My specimen is smaller 

 and paler than Amphilochus, but every marking seems to be identical in 

 position. It is quite probable that when the northern extension of the 

 Rocky Mountains has been explored, this species will be found at lower 

 elevations, as I learn from Mr. Bean that he took it at 8,500 feet. 



W. J. Elwes, Colesborne, Andoversford, Gloucestershire, England. 



P. S. — I may add that I have still spare copies of my revisions of the 

 genera Argynnis and Erebia, which I shall be glad to send to anyone who 

 wants them in Canada or the States. 



LITHOPHANE ORIUNDA. 



Sir, — On the 24th of Sept., 1892, I found, in the vicinity of London, 

 a moth new to me. It was resting in an upright position, on the stalk of 

 a weed, quite fresh, as if it had but recently emerged. Its thoracic crest 

 and tufts stood out conspicuously, which, with its gracefully curved and 

 pointed wings, at once suggested a Lithophane ; but its colour and mark- 

 ings were so different from what I had been accustomed to in that genus, 

 that I hesitated to decide upon it as such. 



In November I sent it with other material to Prof. J. B. Smith for 



