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the female not exceeding three-fourths the length of the body, and the 

 antennal scape equaling the three basal joints. Hind femur with an 

 oblique medium-sized tooth ; claws with appendices acute. Length, .24 

 to .28 inch. Described from 5 £ and 5 $ examples. The foregoing 

 characters will readily separate this species from any with which it is 

 likely to be confused : — The oblique femoral tooth and acute claw 

 appendix, from B. Jiasicus which it most resembles ; the longer antennal 

 scape of the $ and the beak thickened and punctured at base in both 

 sexes, from B. uniformis ; the acute claw appendices, denser vestiture 

 and fiasicus shape, from obtusus. Abundant in western and south- 

 eastern Pennyslvania, West Virginia, south-eastern Ohio, Massachusetts, 

 and North Carolina. Blanchard. For further comparative characters, see 

 Can. Ent., xxii., 7. 



I have obtained this species from the acorns of Quercus ilicifolia, but 

 it probably depredates on the fruit of other species of oak. An example 



was also obtained from one of the large apple-galls of Solidago nemoralis; 

 these galls are composed of a compact porous mass caused by the larva 

 of a fly named by Fitch Acinia solidaginis (Rep. 1st). The gall con- 

 tained three coleopterous larvse after the fly escaped, one of which 

 developed the next year and turned out to be this species. Oviposition 

 on this gall can scarcely have been otherwise than a mistake on the part 

 of the parent. 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



BY REV. W. J. HOLLAND, PH. D., ALLEGHENY, PA. 



I have just received a specimen of an Erebus odora, which was cap- 

 tured last Wednesday evening (Sept. 27th) in the lecture-room of the 

 First United Presbyterian Church, in the city of Allegheny, where its 

 appearance caused no little consternation among the devout " mothers in 

 Israel " who were at prayer meeting, and who thought it was a bat, of 

 which evil things are said by the unsophisticated. It is a male in good 

 case. This is the third specimen I have received this summer. The 

 first was taken about four weeks ago in the cellar of my father's residence 

 in Bartholomew County, Indiana. The second was taken at Jeannette, 

 Pa., near a spring-house. All three specimens are fresh in appearance, 

 as if not long from the chrysalis. Undoubtedly this great moth is more 

 than an occasional visitor from the tropics, and should be reckoned as 

 belonging to our fauna, though scarce. Its capture has been recorded 

 north of the Ohio and Potomac many scores of times, and it has been 

 taken repeatedly in Canada. 



