THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST 221 to visit a certain marsh at the far end of a lake about half a mile long, which lies between densely wooded hills not far from the hotel. In order to reach it I had to struggle through a dense black spruce swamp extending the entire length of the lake. Now a black spruce swamp is always enticing to me, but on this occasion I had had enough of it by the time I reached the marsh, without the return trip, and the worst of it was that when I did arrive there no dragon-flies were to be seen, except a very few of C. resolutum and -E. calverti. It was here though, and at the other marsh, that I found the sole representatives of the Order Orthoptera which I came across in Newfoundland. These were a very few young nymphs of Chor-thippus ciirtipennis Harr,, one of the most common and wide-spread of Canadian grasshoppers. The season was certainly very backward, but, in spite of this, one would have expected to find at least the nymphs of the commoner grasshoppers in the fields and clearings. I searched for these in vain, however. Morgan Hebard has recently published a list of six species of Orthoptera from Newfoundland (Ent. News, XXV, p. 306, 1915), two of which (C. curtipennis and Melanoplus fasciatus) were already known to occur there, and my colleague. Dr. A. G. Huntsman, brought me three species from the Bay of Islands, taken in 1915, and all included in Mr. Hebard's list. Our commonest field grass-hoppers, Melanoplus femur-ruhnim and M. atlanis, are unknown in the island, a.nd it is quite probable that they do not occur there. No crickets have been taken and only one long-horned grasshopper or "stone-cricket," Ceuthophiliis terrestris Scudd. The absence of these common and widespread insects is interesting, but it is only part of a general condition characteristic of this island, of which i shall have more to say later. (to ce continued). SOME NEW RACES AND SPECIES OF NORTH AMERICAN LEPIDOPTERA. BY \VM. BARNES, M.D., AND J. MCDUNNOUGH, FH.D. DlURNALS Basilarchia arthemis rubrofasciata, subsp. nov. A series before us of 6 cT's and 1 9 from Northwestern Canada shows certain constant points which we think warrants Ji'K, 1916
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