Habitat: Bogata district, Colombia. Expanse: 1.50 inches.

Head, palpi, thorax and abdomen above, dark mouse colour; beneath, nearly white. Between the eyes are three white dots. Antennæ black. Legs grayish white.

Upper side of fore wing dark mouse colour. There is a broad prominent yellowish-white band extending from costa down to submedian nervure, its inner edge straight, the outer edge swelling outwards somewhat. The interspaces between this distinctive band and the hind margin, also the interspaces upwards towards costa, are heavily dusted with light monse-coloured scales. The nervures and nervules are nearly black. The hind margin bears a slight hairy fringe and a very slight darkish thread.

I see by Mr. Lyman's address (1899) before the Entomological Society of Ontario that he is a convert to the view of the specific distinctness of Halisidota tesselaris and H. Harrisii. I berieve this to be correct.

Odontoxiphidium, gen. nov.—Allied to Ziphidium, from which it is probably derived. Distinguished from that genus by the form of the anal cerci of the male, which are elongate, straight, with the lateral tooth reduced in size, and an additional tooth upon the dorsal side near the base; and, in the type, by the form of the pronotum, which is sub-sellate and prolonged backward, covering the base of the abdomen both above and on the sides, in correlation with the absence of flight-organs. The type is O. apterum, described below.

Prof. Smith's remarks in the May Canadian Entomologist contain two separate counts. He implies that I might be led by personal views to an improper treatment of the collection in my charge. This implication I indignantly repudiate, and leave Prof. Smith to explain his breach of etiquette as best he may. While Prof. Smith's lack of humour has led him to misunderstand my views, he has no right to imply that with any personal views whatever I would not properly conserve the National Collection. This collection, rapidly becoming the finest in the country, will continue to be conserved with the greatest care. As to the synonymy of the Acronyctas, Prof. Smith makes two assumptions. First, that the specimens now in the British Museum labeled as Guendée's types are still as labeled and described by him; second, that if so, they are properly types. As to the first assumption, I am not in a position at present to dispute it, though I think that some admixture or confusion might have easily arisen in transference, and considering the length of time that has passed. As to the second assumption, I regard it as debatable in the cases where Guenée described larvæ.

The effort to control the “white fly” of the orange (Aleurodes citri) by hydrocyanic acid gas, naturally suggested an inquiry into the respiration of these insects. The author was enabred to pursue this inquiry, while recently in Florida, under the auspices of trre Florida Agricultural Experiment Station.

The only account of the organs of respiration in the young of this family is a brief note with a figure in Burmeister's Handbuch, which is very incomplete and not entirely accurate. Some very interesting and quite unique features are presented by these insects, not the least of which are the breathing folds, that are very conspicuous structures, and have been heretofore incorrectly interpreted. The view suggested by Riley and Howard (Insect Life, 1893, Vol. 5, pp. 219–226), that the anterior folds represent the original division between the head and thorax, is the one usually accepted. In rearity they are wholly thoracic in position, being nearer to the pro-mesothoracic line than to the head-thoracic boundary, and they are by no means vestigial structures, but specially developed organs of respiration.

Miomantis, Saussure. Bull. Ent. Suisse, III., p. 64, 1870.

Preoccupied by Miomantis, Blanchard. D'Orbigny, Voy. Amer. Merid., VI., Ins., p. 209, 1842 (Coleoptera). To fill the deficiency, I propose the name Calidomantis.

Harpax, Serville. Ann. Sci. Nat., XXII., p. 45, 49, 1831.

Preoccupied by Harpax, Parkinson. Organic Rem., 1811 (Mollusca). I have not been able to examine the first edition of Parkinson, but in the second the name Harpax occurs on page 221 of volume III. To replace Serville's genus, I propose the name Australomantis.

A undescribed variety of Cicindela vulagaris, Say, is reported from the basin of the Rogue River, in S.-W. Oregon. Twenty specimens taken during the month of April of this year, and closely representative of the local tribe, present no differences except a slight one in shade of colour, indicating, apparently, that the variety is well established and worthy of a descriptive name. The elytra markings are identical with those generally recognized as possessed by vulgaris proper. It is slightly narrower and the upper surface more convex than the type. The colour is a dull coppery green, the metallic hue being more apparent, as is usual in other species, at the edges of the elytra. It seems to be a connecting link between the type and variety vibex, Horn. Its habitat suggests the name C. roguensis.

On page 191,Vol.XXXII., of the Canadian Entomologist (1900), Dr. Grote describes a new species of Catocala from Texas, C. moderna, related to C. viduata. If we place this as No. 7 in our list of the former article, and push the rest one number forward, it will bring C. relicta No. 21 instead of No. 20.

The following bibliographical catalogue was prepared several years ago, and thinking that other workers might find it of use, it is offered for publication at this time. A table of the genera, compiled from the writings of various systematists who have dealt with this famiiy, is added to make the paper more complete.

Lycœna amyntula, var. Herrii, n. var.— ♀ expanse, 1.25 in.; differs from typical amyntula by the replacement of the dark area of the primaries by a narrow black band about 1 mm. wide, and on the secondaries by only two red crescents instead of five as in typical amyntula. On the under side the markings are all much heavier.

♂ expanse, 1.00 in.; differs from ♂ of typical amyntula in having a black margin about 1 mm. wide, whereas there is none in typical amyntula, or, if any, a very slight trace. On the under side the markings are much more heavy. The male of this variety is also much smaller than the male of typical amyntula, and the tails seem more distinct in this variety.

Anthophora catalinœ, n.sp.— ♀. Length 14 millim., black (including face, mandibles and antennæ), with fulvous, yellowish-white and black pubescence. Pubescence of face dull yellowish-white, a few black hairs at the sides of the clypeus, a long pale fulvous tuft on each side of the anterior ocellus; hair of vertex long, erect and black, of occiput yellowish-white, of cheeks yellowish-white above and white below; hair of thorax pale fulvous, mixed with black on mesothorax and scutellum; lower half of pleura clothed with black hair; abdomen with dense pale fulvous hair-bands at the apices of the first four segments; apex with black hair; ventral surface of abdomen with black hair, except at the sides, where the pale apical bands of the upper surface are combined for a short distance; legs clothed beneath with black hair, above largely with pale; fringe of anterior tarsi wholly black; long hair on outer side of hind tibia and basal joint of tarsus black on the anterior half (extending longitudinally) and shining very pale yellowish on the posterior half.

Some time ago, I read a very interesting article, by Dr. S. H. Scudder, in the Canadian Entomologist, on Cyphoderris monstrosa. The rarity of the insect, as set forth by Dr. Scudder's article, has led me to write the observations, of myself and others in this section, on an Orthopteran identified by Professor Aldrich and Professor Bruner as the above-named insect.

In June of 1899, while walking through a pasture near Moscow, at dusk one evening, I heard a great many short, intermittent chirps, similar to the song of Oecanthus fasciatus; but more subdued and ventriloquial, and with longer pauses between the measures. I supposed them to be the songs of crickets, but never before having heard songs like them, I decided to make an acquaintance with their authors.

The “Green Dolphin” is one of the best-Known pests of peas and vetches in Europe, though but little concerning its economy has been recorded by European writers. In this country, N. pisi, Kalt., has been noted by Thomas, Oestlund, and Williams, but as their specimens were never compared with any from Europe, and as plant-lice are exceedingly variable and descriptions of them are, therefore, often of but little value even when accurate, the identity of their specimens with the European forms has been somewhat in doubt.

The following interesting notes upon this subject are taken from a paper recently received from Mr. L. de Nicéville, of Calcutta:

“The larvæ of many kinds of butterflies will, when they cannot get vegetable food, eat each other or soft, newly-formed pupæ. Mr. Bell has found that the greatest cannibals in this respect are the larvæ of certain Lycænidæ, and the worst among these, again, are the larvæ of Zesius chrysomallus, Hübn., for these will at times, even when plentifully supplied with their proper vegetable food, eat any larvæ which may be in a fit state to be eaten; i.e., which are either on the point of casting their skins, have just cast them, or are just going to pupate. The Lycænid larvæ, which are most addicted, after that of Z. chrysomallus, are those of the Amblypodia and Tajuria groups, those of Arrhopala and Rapala being nearly as bad.

Mysus fragœfolii, n. sp.

“Apterous female and larvæ white or faintly yellowish. Eyes dark brown. Antennæ concolorous with body or faintly brownish; apex of the fifth, the sixth and its spur pale dusky. Tarsi dusky, their apex black.

“Winged female: slightly more yellow, the head, thoracic lobes and sternal plate blackish brown. Antennæ black; the two basal joints of colour of body, or with a faintly dusky tinge. Legs pale dusky; the terminal third or half of the femora pale dusky; apex of tibiæ and the tarsi black. The abdomen is marked with a small, squarish, dusky spot in front of nectaries. Stigma pale dusky, veins black.” (Theo. Pergande MS.).

Catocala retecta, Grt.

Food-plant, hickory. Length of mature larva, two and one-half inches. Head rather flat, as broad as first segment, gray striped with dark brown, and with a broad black band, ragged iu front, running up each side to top of lobe, but not continued over the summit.

The dorsal stripe consists of a series of rounded, brown patches with a black central line; tubercles, although not large, tipped with white, and conspicuous; subdorsal stripes brown, interrupted and indistinct.

Anacampsis lupinella, n. sp.

Antennœ bronzy black with white annulations, slightly serrate, especially towards the tip.

Labial palpi long, smooth, recurved; second joint somewhat thickened, with appressed scales, dark ochreous brown; terminal joint longer than second, acicular, dark brownish, with tip black.

Myzus Neomexicanus, n. sp.—Winged form. General colour of head and thorax black; prothorax sage-green with a transverse black shield, narrowest in the middle; sides of thorax green; antennæ black; wings clear, stigma and nervures very dark brown; abdomen sage-green, four quadrate black marks on each side anterior to honey-tubes, the last sometimes a mere speck; honey-tubes blackish, darkest basally; segment bearing honey-tubes with a few black spots, this and the following two segments with transverse black bands; legs black, tibiæ brown. Ocelliferous tubercle prominent; frontal tubercles low and broad, these and first antennal joint very slightly gibbous. Honey-tubes not swollen, 300 μ long and 40 broad, 200 μ short of tip of abdomen, cingulate. Body about 2100 μ long, antennæ about 1030, half length of body. Tibia of anterior leg 700, of hind leg 880 μ. Antennal joints (counting the so-called 7th joint as 6b) measuring: (1) 70, (2) 60, (3) 270, (4) 190, (5) 184, (6a) 100, (6b) 270.

On the 22nd June, 1901, I received from Mr. A. Kwiat, of Chicago, a batch of eggs of Arctia virguncula, Kirby. These eggs were laid on the 18th June and hatched on the 25th and 26th. The following notes on the early stages of the species were taken. A brief description of the mature larva was published by Mr. Coquillett, in the first number of Papilio, in 1881.