228 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Not having a monograph, or even a catalogue of the Uroceridae, nor 

 access to a good entomological library, I do not know how these insects 

 are at present classified. 



A CARD. 



After twenty years work on North American Moths, and being more 

 or less constantly employed in determining material, I find my time so 

 taken up with it that it excludes other occupation. From this fact, and 

 the expense and time demanded by the necessary correspondence, I am 

 obliged to make a charge for my labor. All specimens will be returned 

 in future, and a charge of ten dollars per hundred or ten cents a speci- 

 men will be made for labelling them, exclusive of transport and postage. 



A. R. Grote, New Brighton, Staten Island, N. Y. 



October t, 1882. 



ALYPIA OCTOMACULATA. 



BY H. H. LYMAN, MONTREAL, P. Q. 



Last June I was in Boston, from the 14th to the 30th, and during this 

 time Alypia odomaculata was in season and very abundant. Had I chosen 

 to carry a net in the public gardens and uptown streets, I suppose I could 

 have taken a couple of hundred specimens, always provided that I wasn't 

 " run in " as a lunatic. As it was, I contented myself with carrying a 

 supply of pill boxes, and succeeded in taking about thirty-five specimens. 

 During two days I was visiting a friend about seven miles from the city, 

 but did not see a single specimen of this species ; but m those streets in 

 which there were small plots of grass in front of the houses, they were 

 very common. The spot where I took the most of those I captured was 

 a plot of grass about ten feet by seven, in which there was a Syringa 

 between two Deutzias, both species of shrubs being in blossom. The 

 Alypias constantly frequented the latter, and were then easily taken with 

 a pill box, but though they occasionally alighted on the leaves of the 

 Syringa, I never saw them visit the flowers. 



