THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



H. Joutel has kindly made for me some sketches of the shrilling organs 

 and side-views of the thorax of both nigripes and pulchellum* whereby it 

 will be seen that the right-hand nerve in pulchellmn (A, Fig. 3) is straighter 

 than the same nerve in nigripes (B, Fig. 3). A series further shows that 

 the lower angles of the thorax are more rounded in pulchellum than in 

 nigripes (A and B, Fig. 4). 



In pulchellum the face is yellow, top of head and often along 

 sides red, sometimes quite bright in colour. Thorax with the usual 

 dorsal dark stripe, but darker than in nigripes. Sides bottle-green, under 

 parts yellowish. Abdomen : dorsum dark, sides green, under surface a 

 bright lemon-yellow, edged with brown. Legs : femora of first and second 

 pair lemon-yellow on the inner surfaces, greenish on the outer ; femora of 

 hind pair lemon-yellow, with the apical half or third reddish. Tibiae of all 

 of the legs reddish, the tarsi darker. When seen in life the insect is par- 

 ticularly beautiful, and is conspicuous for its bottle-green coloured tegmina, 

 with a bluish tinge, its lemon-yellow markings and its reddish legs. The 

 ovipositor is much curved, and in the type red in colour. The hind 

 femora are each armed with from three to five spines on the under side. 



Measurements. — Male: Length of body, 19 mm.; of pronotum, 5 

 mm.; oftegmina, 20 mm.; of hind femora, 16 mm. Female: Length of 

 body, 20 mm.; oftegmina, 22 mm.; of hind femora, 18 mm.; of ovipositor, 

 9 mm. 



TWO ADDITIONS TO THE LIST OF BUTTERFLIES OF THE 



ISLAND OF MONTREAL* 



BY ALBERT F. WINN, WESTMOUNT, P. Q. 



One of the great attractions of collecting Butterflies and Moths lies 

 in the probability of coming across, at any moment, something new to 

 the locality in which one is working, even though common elsewhere. 



Although the district about Montreal has been fairly well worked 

 over since the formation of the Montreal Branch of the Entomological 

 Society of Ontario, 35 years ago, not a season passes in which we do not 

 find some moths, large or small, not previously observed and recorded. But 

 finding a new butterfly is a different matter, and it was indeed a pleasant 

 surprise when I came across a specimen of the little pepper-and salt 

 skipper, Amblyscirtes samoset, Scudder, flying over a very muddy field at 



' Read at the Annual Meeting of the Entomological Society of Ontario, 

 Nov. 6 1908. 

 January, 1909 . 



