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hundred without moving more than ten paces. I don't remember having 

 seen this species so abundant here for several years. Last year Fyrameis 

 cardui appeared to me to be the most plentiful butterfly here, during 

 August and September. I also noticed a large number of this latter 

 species on the marshes of Lake St. Peter, about sixty miles down from 

 Montreal. This was in the early part of September, last year. If you 

 consider the above notes interesting enough to publish, I should like to 

 know the cause of the above mentioned assemblage of archippus. The 

 weather was showery in the morning, and sunshiny in the afternoon, with 

 a stiff breeze blowing from the south. 



Montreal, 22nd Aug., 1885. Ernest D. Wintle. 



CRYPTOBIUM FLAVICORNE, LEC. 



Dear Sir : In his recent very interesting " A Study of the Species 

 of Cryptobmm of North America," Trans. Am. Ent. Soc, 1885, Dr. Horn 

 has united with pallipes the forms hitherto known as latebricola and 

 flaviconic. Having lately shown him a series of specimens in which the 

 males have a denticle on the middle of the hind margin of the sixth 

 (fifth visible) ventral segment, he writes that in none of the males of 

 pallipes in his cabinet does this little tooth exist, and that he thinks it 

 could not have existed in any specimens of the series which he examined 

 while preparing his paper. He thinks, however, that the species thus 

 indicated is the fiavicorne Lee, and says the females are only distmguish- 

 able by the very pale rufo-testaceous antennge oi fiavicorne and the more 

 or less piceous antennae of pallipes. Immature females of the latter in 

 Dr. Horn's cabinet and in my own appear indistinguishable from fiavi- 

 corne. Frederick Blanchard. 



Dear Sir : Whilst being out on a drive through the country last sum- 

 mer, I noticed a small yellow butterfly near the road side, too small to be 

 a Colias philodice Godt. I jumped off the wagon and captured it, after 

 a brief chase. To my astonishment, -k proved to be a fresh specimen of 

 Terias lisa Boisd., the first one ever taken in this locality. 



I think it will be well to remember the following : To prevent mould- 

 ing of the sand used for relaxing specimens, put a few drops of carbolic 

 acid in the water to moisten the sand with ; it also prevents the moulding 

 of specimens should they be closed up too long. 



Ph. Fischer, Buffalo, N. Y. 



