198 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 
_ fourth series of punctures at a little distance from the lateral margin, and 
the intersticé between them is impunctured ; epipleura dark-green. 
N.B. The two lower branches of the above stripe are joe dore 
a common series of punctures. 
Variety B. Smaller, green-bronzed, green “nor of the elytra more 
numerous, epipleura pallid. 
C. Sutural stripe with only one branch, the two lower ones 
forming separate spots ; epipleura pallid. 
This varying species may be known from the succeding ones by the 
green colour of its body ; all the varieties are distinguished by the obtus- 
angular spot at the shoulders of the elytra: the varying number of green 
spots on these organs is produced by the separation of some of the 
irregular ones into distinct ones, and the lower branches of the sutural 
stripe doing the same. Variety C comes nearest to that figured by De- 
Geer and Olivier. [Quite common in Canada]. 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
AN Error CORRECTED.—On page 258 of his Guide to the Study of 
Insects, Dr. A. S. Packard describes and figures what purports to be the 
larva of Afelitaca Harrisii. His description, “ made from an alcoholic 
specimen in the collection of Mr. Sanborn,” is as follows :— 
“Tt (the larva) is cylindrical with six acute, small tubercles in each 
side of each thoracic ring, while on the abdominal rings the four dorsal 
tubercles are large and remarkably boot-shaped, the toe being formed by 
a lateral prolongation of the tubercle, and the heel is also well formed, 
from which arises a short bristle. ‘The specimen is dark, with a lighter 
stripe along the back on each side of the median line of the body. Its 
length is .80 of an inch.” 
About the middle of last May, a larva, agreeing with the above de- 
scription, was handed me. It was found in or upon decaying wood, and, 
in confinement, fed upon that and also upon wild Aster. I supplied it 
with the latter, because Dr. Packard states that “it feeds on Diplopappus 
umbellatus.” With me it fed freely upon Aster dumosus. June 14, the 
supposed JZe/itaca spun a slight cocoon, and, on the 29th of the same 
month, emerged. ‘The imago proved to be an Agéossa, and is, I think, 
Aslossa debilis. It is difficult to conceive how the same characteristics, 
characteristics too, so striking and unusual, can distinguish the larve of 
