THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 259 
VANESSA ANTIOPA.—The present autumn has been remarkable for the 
appearance in scattered localities all over thé country of one of our 
rarest and most beautiful butterflies, the Camberwell Beauty, Vanessa 
Antiopa, very few British specimens of which exist in our cabinets. The 
Entomologist records the capture of upwards of 200 specimens in all parts 
of the country, from the Channel Islands to Aberdeen. It is very 
remarkable. that they nearly all differ in colouring to a perceptible extent 
from the Continental variety, the border being creamy white instead of 
buffcoloured. If they are genuine natives their spasmodic appearance 
in this manner is very singular, and worthy of careful observation. Several 
other rare butterflies, especially Argynnis Lathonia, Pieris Daplidice, and 
Colias HTyale, have also been unusually abundant this season.—J/Vainre. 
Tue RapisH Buc.—A New Insect. (Vysius raphanus, N. sp.)* 
‘This insect has never heretofore been described ; the reason, we suppose, 
is that it has not hitherto attracted the notice of farmers and gardeners as 
a destructive insect. We have noticed it this season, for the first, 
attacking radishes, mustards and lettuce ; some have noticed it on 
cabbage, others on grapevines, and in Kansas it is doing great damage 
to the potato crop, and we are informed that a very similar, if not the 
same species, attacks corn to an alarming extent ; but, as we have not as 
yet seen the species from corn, we cannot say that they are identical, but 
*Nysius RAPHANUS, N. sp.—Body long, with numerous short hairs ; 
head and thorax cinerous ; eyes black; scutel blackish ; antennæ pube- 
scent, four-jointed, chestnut brown, first and third joints about equal 
length, second, long as first and third, last, longer and thicker than third ; 
hemelytra semi-transparent, punctured, with brown nervures, outside at 
base hairy, interior terminal margin bound with a dark band, separated by 
the medial longitudinal nervure, membranous at tip; rostrum nearly as 
long as the antennæ, four-jointed, extends a little beyond the origin of the 
posterior feet, blackish, paler at base ; coxæ honey yellow; legs hirsute ; 
posterior femora blackish ; anterior and middle brown ; tibiæ light brown, 
two tibial spurs ; tarsi three-jointed--first as long as second and third, 
third longer than second—tarsal claws black ; abdomen of males black ; 
females black above, beneath a whitish band near the base, from the 
band to the tip pale ; length to tip of hemelytra one-eighth of an inch ; 
rostrum one twenty-fourth of an inch.—Wm. R. Howarp, Forsyth, Mo. 
