132 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. Among a large number bred, the males were nearly constant in their markings, varying slightly in the size of the spots near the outer margin of the hindwings and occasionally with the beginning of a transverse line inside the first one on the forewings, shown by a little bending in of the pale on the costal margin so as to sometimes touch the subcostal vein. Some of the females were of this type, but many of them varied from this by having less of the pale colour on the forewings, even to the partial or total obliteration of the inner of the two transverse lines. The tendency with such examples would be to a blending and enlarging of the black spots on the terminal border of the hindwings, and a blending of these with the black of the edge, making a nearly solid terminal border. The red on the hindwings was constant, there being no appreciable difference in this respect between the sexes, as there is in Nais, nor in light or dark examples of either sex. The dark examples would have the-black on the abdomen a little more prominent than on the light. The characteristic marks, straight transverse lines on forewings and veins pale, were constant whatever the other variations might be. In size, my specimens were small from being underfed, as a result of a great many larvae crowded together in a single breeding cage. If they had been separated as much as they naturally would be in feeding in the open fields they would have been as large as caught specimens. TWO NEW SPECIES OF CANADIAN PIMPLIN^. BY W. HAGUE HARRINGTON, OTTAWA. Xorides caryce, n. sp. Female. — Length ii to i6 mm. Black with yellowish-white markings. Head swollen, interior orbits, interrupted opposite antennse, and palpi white ; face below antennge punctured, between antennae and ocelli polished ; antennae slender, black. Thorax with the pectus and pleura? finely punctate, polished ; disc of mesothorax transversely rugulose ; metathorax rounded, faintly sulcate medially and rugosely punctured and aciculated ; sides of prothorax, two lines on mesothorax, two spots, some-times confluent, on scutellum, the post-scutellum, the tegulae and a broad stripe on pleura, continued on middle coxa, yellowish-white ; legs, includ-ing coxas, pale rufous or honey-yellow, anterior ones paler, the anterior coxae, stripe on middle coxae outwardly, second joint of trochanters and the knees yellow ; tibiae and tarsi piceous or blackish, the former with a
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