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Anthonomus signatus Say, is synonymous with A. musciilus 

 Say (cf. Dr Riley, Rep. of llic Comm. ofAgric. , 1885, p. 281). 



Kncalus decipiens Lee. Tlie genus Enculus is a synonym of 

 Prociorus, and tlie species sliould be referred to the latter genus (cf Dr, 

 Leconte, Proc. Am. Philos, Soc, XVll, p, 620), Leconle's rectilication 

 was entirely overlooked in the 2d editicn of the "Classification", ([). 4S2), 



Pseudobaris albilata Lee, read albilatiis. Leconte had originally 

 given the correct name; the error was introduced by Mr. Austin in his 

 Supplement to Crotch's Check List. The name Liopus quercil'Mch, might 

 also advantageously be changed to quercus. 



Quite a large number of species more recently described by European 

 authors are not referred to in I\Ir. Henshaw s List, but as most of these 

 species will- — so far as I am able to judge — -only swell the number of 

 synonyms, their enumeration is better deferred to a paper on Synonymy, 

 which I hope, will ere long be written by a more competent hand than 

 mine. 



Ecpanthera reducta, Groie. 

 By David Bruce, Brockport, N. Y. 



I captured a female example of this species in Platte Canon, CoL, 

 last July— it was flying in the sunshine over low plants, I carefully pre- 

 served it alive and was pleased to find next morning that it had deposited 

 a small batch of eggs; these were firmly attached to the bottom of the box 

 and arranged in very regular rows side by side; these resembled tiny 

 pearls, being beautifully opalescent; in two days they turned lead colored, 

 but still preserving the same pearly luster; they hatched on the eight and 

 ninth day after. 



The larva; when first hatched were brownish black; after moulting 

 the hairs on the three last segments were longer than the others and 

 slightly tinged with light brown at the tips, giving a hoary appearance; 

 at the third moult the final change in color took place, and the larvae, 

 (which hitherto could hardly be distinguished from Arclia Saundersii of 

 the same age), presented an entirely diff"erent appearance and in markings 

 were unlike any other larva I ever saw; length, when walking extended, 

 from li^ to 2 inches, the sexes being easily distinguished by the su])erior 

 size of the females, those that produced male imagos being ^ inch shorter 

 than the others; head and to]) of next segment pitchy black, feet and 

 naked parts of body a livid purplish flesh color; from the usual verrucosa 

 warts on each segment arose spreading tufts of stiff glossy hairs, longer 

 and more spreading than those on the larvae of P. Isabella; the hairs form- 



