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each end. The hinder edge of each segment is raised as if slightlv over- 

 lapping the one behind it. Each segment has several short whitish hairs, 

 only visible with a high magnifying power; these are most numerous on 

 anterior segments. The two hinder segments are smaller than any of those 

 on anterior part of body, feet and prolegs wanting. 



The larva is very sluggish in its habits, and will often remain a long time 

 motionless unless disturbed. — W. Saunders, London, Ont. 



MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 



A New Thecla. — In July last, while staying at Port Stanley, Ont , I 

 captured a Thecla on the common garden Spiraea; at first sight I supposed 

 it to be only T. Falacer, but on closer examination, when setting it up, I 

 discovered some new points which, in my opinion, marked it as a fresh 

 addition to our Canadian list. I sent it accordingly to Mr. W. H. Edwards 

 of Western Virginia, and I have much pleasure in stating that he considers 

 it a new species, and has given it the name of " Thecla Ontario." A plate 

 and description of this interesting capture will be given shortly in the 

 Transactions of the American Entomological Society. — Edmund Baynes 

 Reed, London, Ont. 



Capture op Pieris rap^b in the U. States. — Mr. Saunders writes in 

 No. 2 that he took F. rupee below Quebec in 1866 ; I have taken it this 

 year at Lewiston, Me., and Montpelier, Vt. It was more plentiful in July 

 and August than any other species. I noticed at both places that it was 

 only to be found very near the city, one mile into the country beyond the 

 cultivated kitchen-gardens I did not see a single specimen ; possibly its larva 

 lives on cultivated plants. It is well worth noticing its advance north and 

 gouth, and recording the facts, so that if any change in its raarkintrs or 

 colour takes place from the extremes of climate, future Entomologists may 

 have data to go upon. As plentiful as Pieris oleracea is in Northern Ver- 

 mont, I have never known it taken in this part of Massachusetts ; possibly 

 P. rajpœ may not spread as far south as here. — Philip S. Sprague, Boston, 

 Mass. [The food-plants of P. rapœ are cabbages, mignionette, nasturtium 

 (Tropseolum), and various Crueiferas. It has proved very destructive to 

 cauliflower and cabbage plants in the neighbourhood of Quebec. An inter- 

 esting account of its first occurrence in this country is given by Mr. Bowles 

 in the Canadian Naturalist for August, 1864. Ed.] 



Darapsa or Otus, which shall it be? — A correspondent reminds us that 

 the generic name Otus (Nos. 13, 14 and 15 in our " Notes on Lepidoptera") 

 is pre-occupied in Ornithology, having been applied as far back as the days 

 of Aristotle to the horned or eared owls. The usual rule is that no generic 



