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lo^^uc of 18S4 is put vloAvai as a variety of 

 montivaga. If, therefore, he is himself 

 so inicertain of the true positicjii of these 

 forms, he cannot expect others to follow 

 hi?n blindly, and though many years 

 must elapse before any certain conclu- 

 sion \\ ill be come to, I venture to think 

 that the arrangement I have adopted 

 represents the facts shown by my col- 

 lectiori. including about hfty specimens 

 from all the States where the species 

 occujs and from many of the collections 

 which supplied his own materials. If 

 it should eventually prove that the Pa- 



cific coast form is not sepai'able from 

 the Rocky Mountain form tnontivaga^ 

 it may be better to use the name eury- 

 iiotne in preference to niotitivaga or 

 eglcis, because both Behr's and Boisdu- 

 val's descriptions u hich have priority 

 over Edwards's, can only be identified 

 with doubt. My specimens of montl- 

 vaga and cgleis^ all come from the 

 Sierra Nevada, and not from the Mt. 

 Shasta district, where mo>?tico/a and its 

 vars. are so abundant ; but local infor- 

 mation as to their distribution, in this, 

 as in the other cases, is \ery deficient. 



Insects of Bermuda. — The Bermuda 

 Islands bv Professor Angelo Heilprin con- 

 tains chapters on the insects, arachnida 

 and niAriopods of the Bermudas hy Drs. P. 

 R. Uhler, George Marx and the late Mr. C. 

 H. Bollman. Dr. Uhler considers the species 

 already found as almost entirely Nearctic in 

 character but anticipates the disco\erv of 

 multitudes of Neotropical forms. He does 

 not enumerate the hymenoptera, lepidoptera, 

 and coleoptera and his lists of the hemiptera, 

 homoptera. pseudoneuroptera, dermaptera 

 and dipteia include but fifteen species or less 

 than half the number recoided in Mr. J. 

 Matthew Jones's "Visitors Guide to Bermu- 

 da." Dr. Marx mentions seventeen species 

 of spiders, describing Lycosa atlaniica as new. 

 Mr. Bollman notes yulus moreleii. Spiro. 

 bolus heilpriui n. sp., Mcci$tocefhalii$ gitild- 

 *ngii, Scolofcndra subsj>itiipes and Lithobiiis 

 lafiidicolaix?, all the myriopods that have been 

 reported from the Bermuda Islands. 



Description of the larva of Megalo- 



DACNE FASCIATA, FaBR. COLOR. Bodv 



sordid white, with the patches on the seg- 

 ments above piceous: head light brown, 

 mandibles piceous. 



Head subglobose, small, smooth, shining-. 



Cypleus transverse, about five limes as 

 broad as long. 



Labrum soinewhat narrower than the 

 clypeus and about twice as long, anterior 

 margin straight with a series of strong hairs; 

 angles rounded; sides slightly oblique. 



Mandibles short ami thick with the apex 

 strongly bifid. 



Antennae very short; two jointed; first 

 joint short, and about three times as broad 

 as long ; second joint more slender and about 

 twice as long as broad with the apex some- 

 what rounded. 



Maxillae elongate, rounded at the apex 

 with hairs and a few bristle-like short tub- 

 ercles. 



Maxillary palpi three jointed ; first joint 

 much broader than long: second joint, less 

 wide: third joint more slender and longer. 



Labium subcordate, apex rounded ; base 

 much broader. 



Labial palpi two jointed ; first joint, short, 

 thick, twice as broad as long; second joint 

 more slender, broader at the base than apex 

 and about twice as long as broad. 



Body elongate, segments all about equal 

 width and length except the first which is 



