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A HUNT FOR A BORER. 

 By H. H. Lyman, M.A., Montreal, Que. 



On pages 154-156 of YoL VIII of the Canadian Entomolog.ist, pub- 

 lished in August, 1876, appeared a paper, ostensibly by Dr. Leon F. Harvey 

 of Bufialo, describing four species of new Noctuidae, one being Gortyna 

 Appassionata. The single type specimen had been received from Mr. E. 

 B. Reed of London, Ont. I believe it was later claimed by Grote that he 

 wrote Harvey's descriptions, and the type specimen was doubtless sent for 

 name to Grote, and remained in the Grote collection and passed with it to 

 the British Museum. On the rediscovery of the species, Grote disclaimed 

 responsibility for the name, which he said was not Latin but Italian. Al- 

 though there were a very few unrecognized specimens of this species in 

 American collections, such as the collection of the American Entomological 

 Society of Philadelphia, the species remained unknown save for its name 

 in the catalogues and the one type specimen in the British Museum, though 

 certain strongly marked specimens of Marginidens were identified with it 

 by a prominent entomologist, who had seen the type on a visit to London. 

 The description was accurate enough with certain exceptions which I, at 

 least, fail to understand. The ground color of thorax and wings was stated 

 to be "of a dark red color, the terminal space glistening red, subterminal 

 space wide, concolorous purple." The last clause I consider misleading, 

 as in many specimens the space from the t.p. line to the margin is of a uni- 

 form deep brownish red color, with only the faintest indication of the sub- 

 terminal line, but I confess that in one of my specimens the space between 

 the t.p. and s.t. lines has a purplish tinge which renders it darker than the 

 space beyond, but the statement which I consider most incomprehensible 

 is that "it is allied to Nitela, differs from it by the wider, rounder reniform, 

 the three larger superposed spots on the t.a. line, the wider concolorous sub- 

 terminal space and the more regular lunulate t.p. line." 



In 1901 or 1902, Mr. Louis H. Joutel, as Mr. Bird has so interestingly 

 told in Can. Ent. XXXV.. 91-94, discovered an unknown larva of the genus, 

 Gortyna, Hydroecia, Papaipema, or what you will, feeding in the roots of 

 the Pitcher Plant (Sarracenia Purpurea) in the pine barrens near Lakewood, 

 N. J., and Mr. Bird, having secured a supply of larvae and food plant, was 

 able to carry to maturity a goodly number of specimens, many of which, 

 with his usual generosity, he distributed to important collections. 



