26 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



This butterfly is quite new to Canada, never having been taken here before 

 to our kaowledge. It is found in Ohio and in some other parts of the 

 United States. 



A short time ago I forwarded to W. H. Edwards, Esq., of Coalburgh, West 

 Virginia, several specimens of Ljjcœna, which I was iu doubt about, for 

 determination. Some were taken by myself about London, others had been 

 received from J. Pettit, Esq , of Grimsby. In a recent letter Mr. Edwards 

 informs me that the box was broken in transit and the specimens almost 

 demolished, but he observed among the fragments, wings of Lycœna violacea 

 Edwards, one of which belongs to a female. This species resembles ^'litcia" 

 in appearance ; the points of difference between them are detailed at length 

 by Mr. Edwards in the Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Phila- 

 delphia, vol. vi. p. 201 to 204. I incline to think that the specimens sent 

 Mr. Edwards, which he has determined to be violacea, were from Mr. Pettit's 

 collection, but cannot say positively. These additions, with the new species 

 referred to in the last number, by E. B. Heed, Esq., bring up our list of 

 Canadian butterflies to eighty-five. 



Philampdas sateUida. — One of our London Entomologists, J. M. Denton, 

 Esq., has been so fortunate as to secure two specimens of the larva of this 

 very rare insect this season. They were taken nearly full grown on the 

 Virginia creeper (^Ampelopds quinquofolia), they were of the dark variety, 

 about three inches long, blackish brown, with six large oval cream-colored 

 spots on sides ; these spots formed a very striking contrast with the general 

 color. The usual caudal horn is replaced in this species by a smooth raised 

 eye-like spot. One of these larvœ is now in chrysalis. Several years ago a 

 lady brought me a specimen of the same larva, but I did not succeed in 

 rearing it. These are the only instances known to mo of the finding of this 

 insect about London. 



On the lith of August I was collecting insects near Milton Junction, 

 Wisconsin, on the Chicago and North Western Railway. While walking 

 along the railroad track I observed a cocoon very like that of SpUosoma 

 Isabella^ fastened to the upper part of the stem of an annual plant which, in 

 consequence of the intense heat of the summer, was prematurely withering. 

 I was much interested in this pupa. Could it be Isabella ? If it was it 

 must either be the cocoon of a larva of last year's growth, which had spent 

 the winter and nearly all the hottest part of summer in the caterpiller state 

 — a thought I could not for a moment entertain — or it must be from a larva 

 of the present year, resulting from eggs laid late in June. Both these conclu- 

 sions being beset with difficulties, I inclined to the view that it might be the 

 pupa of an Arctian I had not met before. So it was carefully boxed up. 



