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bred the butterfly; Pyralis farinalis, Linn., on a tree trunk ; 
also two Fireflies of one species. I found an aquatic beetle, 
? species, under a street lamp. Cases of the Psychid Giceticus 
platensis, Berg., were very common in the outskirts of Buenos 
Ayres. 
I went from Buenos Ayres to Cordoba through miles of unin- 
teresting, monotonous, treeless pampas. ‘The collecting ground 
did not look as if itcould yield much. Justa few prickly shrubs, 
some straggling plants of alfalfa and an occasional cactus with 
broadly ovate-oblong joints and a very dry soil. Tertas deva, 
Dbl., rather common both here and at Buenos Ayres. Phyciodes 
ithra, Kirby, a few at alfalfa; a small Phyciodes ? species, of 
which I got a dozen examples. It is represented in the National 
Collection, but without a name. Dione vanille, Linn., one or 
two in bad condition; Pyrameis braziliensis, Moore, two examples, 
one at Lerviers, the other at Cordoba; Pyrameis carye, Hub., at 
Lerviers and Cordoba; Muptoieta hortensia, Blanch., Boulogne and 
Cordoba; Hamearis ? chilensis, Felder, one only, but smaller than 
the smallest of the three in the National Collection ; Junonia 
lavinia, Cram. (genoveva, Cram.) ; Callicista argona, Hewitson, 
Tmolus rufofusca, Hew., Thanaos nevius, Lintner, Hesperia 
syrichtus, Fab., a nice series of both sexes—Boulogne, Lerviers, 
and Cordoba; Gerespa bisinuata, Felder; Tephrias ? species. 
There is one specimen only in the National Collection, and that 
is without a name. Thermesia rubricans, Boisd., Tephrinopsis 
fragilis, Warr., Hudule cupraria, Walker, Zinckenia fascialis, 
Cramer, and Nomophila noctuella, Schiff. I found the mosquitoes 
rather troublesome. These are, | should think, something of a 
scourge in the summer months. 
I went in July of the same year to the Niagara Falls. 
‘On the journey up the St. Lawrence Tortriz sumiferana, Clem., 
was common. Later, in the Montreal shops, I saw hundreds 
of this insect dead, many of them attached to ordinary fly 
papers. On landing, early in the morning, at Quebec, | must 
have seen quite a large number either of Malacosoma americana, 
Fab., or disstria, Hubner (I am not sure which). They had 
been attracted by the powerful lights near the landing stage. 
At Montreal I found Ganoris rape, L., Satyrodes canthus, L., 
Ctenusia virginica, Charp., Lithacodia albidula, Guen., Hema- 
topsis grataria, Fab., Nomophila noctuella, Schiff., Sparganothis 
pettitana, Rob., Argyroploce scudderiana, Clem., Cacecia pur- 
purana, Clem., and Vortrix clemensianus, Fern. I also got, both 
at Montreal and Toronto, Colias paleno, L., Danais archippus, F. 
I noticed that some small boys who interested themselves in my 
proceedings referred to this insect as King Billy: ‘*‘ There goes a 
King Billy.” At Toronto I got Limenitis disippus, God., Poly- 
gonia silenus, Edw,, Pyrameis huntera, Fab., Cercyonis nephele, 
Kirby, Lyceénopsis pseudargiolus, Boisd., Strymon calanus, Hubn., 
