THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 1 1 7 



MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 



Annual Meeting.— In accordance with the Act of Incorporation, the 

 annual meeting of the Entomological Society of Ontario will be held at 

 Kingston, Ont., on Wednesday evening, Sept. 27th, 187 1, when the annual 

 Report will be read, with the Treasurers statement, and officers for the 

 ensuing year will be elected. — Ed. Can. Ent. 



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Ekiexdly Notes. — 1 see you have published a little scrap in No. 3 

 Can. Ent., "'by C. V. Riley, State Entomologist of Missouri, St. Louis." 1 

 had to laugh at the mountain you have made of the mole heap, and, in 

 future, if you care to use any of my scribblings in print, I must insist that 

 you follow copy, and omit the "handles." 1 have no particular fondness 

 for the latter, and they seem to be especi; lly out of place at the head of 

 trifling communications. 



While spending a few hours with Air. Scudder, recently, 1 found, upon 

 comparing notes, that he had not observed the difference in length in the 

 larval horns of Disippus and Ursula, and that, if anything, his descrip- 

 tions made those of the former longer than those of the latter — or the 

 exact converse of what I described in the article above referred to. I 

 mention this fact that you may note it in your future observations, and per- 

 haps it would be weil to call attention to it in the Can. Ent., that others 

 may also give us their experience. Mr. Scudder had, however, remarked 

 the differences in the pupal humps; but. in describing, he speaks of the 

 '• posterior and anterior sides" of this hump instead of *' upper and lower 

 edges" — thereby imagining the pupa in a detached and horizontal, instead 

 of the suspended vertical position as I have done. Mr. Scudder has 

 noticed some other differences in the two pupae, and 1 draw your attention 

 to these differences, in order that you may make further comparisons, lie 

 finds that, while in Ursula the shoulder (basal wing tubercle) is rounded 

 off and partially suppressed, in Disippus it is produced into a minute 

 conical point, directed outwards (and in Arihauis [one specim< n only 

 observed] less pointed and directed backwards). In Disippus he finds 

 the dorsal portion of the " anal button," within the marginal ridge, to be 

 longer than wide, while it is more nearly square in Ursula. lie also 

 thinks the latter is a little stouter and more constricted at the mesothorax, 

 viewed dorsallv. From an examination of several empty pupa shells of 

 both species, I doubt whether any of these characters, taken singly, are of 

 as much value as those 1 have given, but they will all help us to separate 



