Reviews and Notices of Booh. 219 



Hesperia Peckius (p. 193), should be Pamphila Peckii. 



Platypteryx erosa (p. 194). No geometra of this name occurs 

 in North America. The moth noticed by Gosse is probably Poa- 

 phila erosa^ Guen. 



Angerona sopeta (p. 194), is a wrong citation. The genus An- 

 gerona of North America has but one described species. Chlo- 

 rissa putatoria does not occur in Canada. Mr. Gosse has evi- 

 dently applied European names to the greater part of the moths 

 mentioned in his work. Geo. clematoria cannot be found in the 

 Northern Insect fauna. The species of Phragmatobia (p. 195), 

 which Mr. Gosse took to be the European fuliginosa, I take to 

 be P, asshnilans, and the only described North American spe- 

 cies. 



Smerinthus occelaius, (p. 222), should be S. geminatus, Say. 



Pamphila cernes (p. 228), should be P. origenes, Fabr. 



Hipparchia andromacha (p. 246), should be Debis Portlandia^ 



Fabr. 



William Couper, Quebec. 



The Canadian Journal^ No. 33 ; Drift Deposits of Western 

 Canada. 



On this interesting subject, to which Mr. Bell directed atten- 

 tion in a late number of the Naturalist^ Prof. Chapman com- 

 municates some valuable notes to the Canadian Journal^Toxowio. 

 The deposits may be divided into a lower and upper member. 

 The former consists of dark blue and greyish clays in some places 

 with yellowish bands, and is destitute of boulders or nearly so. 

 This deposit much resembles our Leda clay of Lower Canada, 

 but no marine fossils have been found in it. The upper member 

 consists of sand and gravel, with numerous boulders. When 

 these rest on the rock without the intervention of the lower 

 member the former is always striated and polished ; and this effect 

 has been observed up to a height of 1500 feet. Prof. Chapman 

 mentions several additional localities of fresh water shells in these 

 deposits, beside those referred to by Mr. Bell ; and thus sums up 

 the mammalian remains which they contain : — 



" In some of these re-sorted beds, the bones and teeth of both 

 extinct and existing mammals are occasionally found. The ex- 

 tinct forms comprise: a species of Mastodon (if. Ohioticus? see 

 Can. Jour. New Series, vol. iii. p. 356) ; the Mephas primige' 



