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YoL. I. TOEONTO, NOYEMBER 16, 1868. No. 4. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL NOTES. 

 PAPER No. II. 



BY W. SAUNDERS, LONDON, ONT. 



While looking over some insects in 

 ITainilton a few days since collected by 

 Miss Mills, daughter of Wm. H. Mills, 

 Esq., I was delighted at finding a speei- 

 mcn of Lihylhea hachmam, Kirtland, 

 which is probably a variety of Z. moti/a, 

 Boisd. It was almost entire, though 

 FiQ 1. somewhat beaten. The young lady had 



taken it on the beach at Hamilton early in August. She found it settled 

 on the sand, and it seemed at first partially torpid, but when captured used 

 its wings freely in trying to escape. It is a very peculiar insect, with very 

 long palpi. Fig. 1 is a representation of it, and we subjoin a description as 

 well. 



Palpi very long, fully one fifth of an inch, formed like a beak, brown above, 

 whitish below. Body dark brown, with a faint metallic hue; paler below. 



Wings angular, expand If inches. Primaries above dark brown, with 

 three white spots arranged in a triangle near the tip. The upper interior 

 one largest, oblong, irregular in outline, divided by the ncrvules at its upper 

 edge J the lower is also oblong but smaller ; the exterior is smallest and 

 irregular in form. On the interior of the wing, beyond the middle, are two 

 large fulvous spots, the upper elongated, pointed at each end — the lower 

 oblong, irregular, and divided near the middle by a dark brown nervule. 



Secondaries above dark brown, with a large irregular fulvous patch across 

 the middle. 



Under side of primaries paler than upper, with the same white spots and 

 fulvous markings, tlie latter somewhat larger and coalescing. The tip has a 

 faint bluish tinge, with a slight iridescence. 



Secondaries with a wide brown border on hind margin, above bluish, 

 iridescent, streaked with brown. 



