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scalaris is a synonym. Rather remarkable, surely, that so handsome and 

 distinctly marked an insect should not have a name of its own. Its 

 season lasted about four weeks, during which I secured over a dozen, I 

 took one specimen of Stenosphenus iwtatus Oliv. Of this species 1 

 captured in May, 1879, three specimens, the first I ever took, and that 

 year, a week or two previous to my captures, I received from Mr. 

 Reinecke, of Buffalo, a pair labelled Dallas, Texas. They are exactly 

 similar. The Cerambycidse were ten days later than usual this year. 

 Goes debilis was numerous, and I took my first and only specimen of 6". 

 pulcher. Saperda discoidea, although never plentiful, is interesting from 

 the great difference in size and markings of the sexes. I had always 

 found two or three females to one male until last season, when the males 

 were most numerous. There were several species of Leptura quite com- 

 mon, especially vibex, which I had not seen before. Gaurotes cyani- 

 peiifiis was in great abundance, but although you could bring a dozen 

 down with one stroke, you might not secure more than two or three, they 

 were so quickly on the wing again. The months of July and August were 

 barren of anything worthy of note. In the second week of September 

 the fall moths began to appear, and up to the end of October were quite 

 plentiful. Those attractive genera, Scopelosoma and Lithophane, were 

 more fully represented than I had seen them since the fall of 1877, when 

 I took eight or ten species for the first time. A few 6". Graefiana and L. 

 Bethunel can be found every year, but Scopelosoma Pettiti and ccromatica, 

 and Lithophane seinmsta, pexata, stg?iosa, petulca. qiierquera, are rare. 

 Some of these choicer species were easily secured again last fall. I also 

 took one new to me, L. ferrealis, whilst a friend here, Mr. J. Johnston, 

 took 6". tristigmata and L. cinerosa, which we were enabled to identify 

 through the kindness of Mr. R. Thaxter, of Cambridge, Mass. Mr. Kyle, 

 of Dundas, secured Z. Georgii, which I have not yet met with. It may 

 be worthy of note that Mr. Johnston took a specimen each of Pliisia 

 striatella and Charocampa tersa, the first taken here of either species. 

 Mr. Thaxter kindly determined the following for me : 



Dryopteris rosea, Hadena Miselioides, • 



Limacodes inornata, Dianthoecia meditata, 



Gortyna cerina, Orthodes cynica, 



Calledapteryx dryopterata, Paristichtis perbellis, 



Mamestra eloniplina. 

 The last four were taken the previous year at Long Point. 



