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[285.] FAMILY NOTONECTIDif:. 



399. NoTONECTA INSULATA Kirby. — Length of body 6^ lines. A 

 single specimen taken. 



Body underneath black, above yellowish. Head yellowish, with a 

 brownish longitudinal stripe between the eyes, which are reddish ; scutel- 

 ium very black, velvetty ; hemclytra with the lateral margin brown spotted 

 with yellow ; the posterior half of the hemelytra is brown anteriorly, black- 

 brown in the middle, fuliginous at the apex ; in this darkened portion 

 anteriorly is a yellowish triangle connected with the last marginal spot, and 

 posteriorly is a white kidney-shaped spot followed by the sooty apex ; 

 breast very hairy with longish fuliginous hairs \ legs yellowish. 



VII. HOMOPTERA. 



FAMILY CERCOPIDiE. 



400. Cercopis marginella Fabr. — Length of body 3^ lines. 

 Taken with the preceding, and at Carlton-house in April. 



Body black, dotted and inscribed with white. Hemelytra embrowned ; 

 nervures black ; lateral margin sanguine ; margin of the abdomen edged 

 with white. 



[286.] Vlll. LEPIDOPTERA. 



FAMILY PAPILIONIDAE. 



401. Papilio TURNUS Z/««. — Taken in Canada by Dr. Bigsby. [It 

 is, of course, quite unnecessary to repeat Kirby's description of this very 

 familiar butterfly.] 



[287.] 402. Colias edusa Fahr^ — Several specimens from North 

 America. [This species is, no doubt, C. cury theme Boisd., which is quite 

 common at Sault Ste. Marie and other localities in the North-west. For 

 aescription and admirable figures see Edwards' " Butterflies of North 

 America," vol. i., part iv.] 



