Bombus Cooleyi, n. sp.— ♀. Length, 16–17 mm. Integument black; clothing black, yellowish white, pale ochreous yellow and rusty yellow. Head, seen from in front, about as wide as long. Malar space abont one-sixth the length of eye. Third segment of antenna one-half longer than fourth, and scarcely longer than fifth. Face thickly clothed with pale yellowish-white hair, on the sides mixed with black. Vertex clothed with yellowish-white hair, which is fringed in front with black. Cheeks clothed with brownish-black, sometimes slightly mixed with whitish, hair. Clypeus shining, sparsely punctured, labrum fringed on free edge with rusty yellorv hair. Clothing of thorax above and on sides yellowish white, mixed with black in front of insertion of wings. A broad patch of black berween the wings surrounds the smooth, polished mesothoracic disc and extends back in a point over the middle of metathorax. On each side of metathorax is a tuft of yellowish white bair.

1899. Myrmosidæ, Family, Ashmead; Journ. N.Y. Ent. Soc., VII., p. 49 and 52.

1903. Mullidæ, Famille (partim), André; Wytsman's Gen. Ins. Fam. Mutillidæ.

This family, as here defined, is, I think, a natural one, although some of the genera have been placed previously, by different authors, in other families, with the Scoliidœ, Myzinidœ, Mutillidœ, etc.

The females in this family may always be easily recognized by the thorax, which is distinctly divided into itwo parts, while the males, except in three or four cases, are easily distinguished by the genitalia, the hypopygium terminating in a sharp aculeus, which curves upwards, as in males in the family Myzinidæ with which they are often confused.

There must be many facts known to entomologists which, though not sufficiently important to work up into an article for the entomological magazines, are still of much interest, and worthy of publication, and I would like to suggest that a page or part of a page at the end of each number of the “Canadian Entomologist” be set aside for this purpose, and that correspondents be invited to send brief notes of rare captures or other interesting items.*

In Dr. David Sharp's “Zoological Record, Insects," 1901, I find in the list of my publications of that year, under the title, 1449, “On some genera of Staphylinidæ described by Thos. L. Casey,” the following note: “Casey replies to this, l.c. pp. 312, 313.”

As I do not receive American journals here, I tried to get the respective nos. of the Canadian Entomologist from one of my friends. Being informed now of the contents of Major Casey's “reply,” I understand why he did not send it to me, although I had sent him a copy of my critic paper “On some genera of Staphylinidæ” already, Nov. 2nd, 1901.

Phlepsius collitus, n. sp.— Resembling fulvidorsum, but smaller and paler. Colour fulvous, elytra brown, with two imperfect light bands. Length,♀, 6 mm.; width 2 mm. Vertex short, obtusely rounded, but little longer on middle than against eye, three times wider than long; disc convex; the anterior margin distinct, but not sharply angled; elytra rather long and narrow; venation distinct, claval veins separate, parallel. Colour: vertex fulvous, sometimes with faint brownish mottling; face unifrom dull brown; pronotum fulvos, usually mottled with brown on the disc; scutellum fulvous.

Some time ago, while in St. Louis, I called on Dr. Geo. W. Bock, and saw in his collection a remarkable specimen of a female Lucanuselaphus, from Popiar Bluff, Mo. On my expressing interest in the matter, the Doctor very kindly gave me the insect, and I wish to put the case on record.

Segment 5 with a more or less evident bevelled or truncate space, false pygidium, which is rather sparsely short, bristly and fuscous, purplish or sericeous in certain lights; ovipositor (applied here to one of a pair of appendages often exserted one on each side of the sting) setiform, fimbriate, apex with several curved divergent spines; mandibles simple; maxillary palpi 3-jointed; scutel finely punctured, sub-bilobed; segments 1–4 with apical fasciæ of pale appressed pubescence

The history of the generic term Pseudanarta is as follows:

1878. Grote, Bull. U.S. Geol. Surv. 178: crocea (flava) sole species, and therefore type.

1882. Grote, New Check List, New York, 27: flava, var. crocea, singula flavidens, aurea. The genus is credited without citation to Hy. Edwards, under the mistaken idea, derived from a previous correspondece, that this writer had used or described the genus. The name Pseudanarta was originally proposed in letters by Grote for Edwards's Anarta crocea, in which the eyes are naked, the tibiæ unarmed, and which is, in reality, as originally state by Grote, allied to Hadena, Led., nec Schrank.

I have read with some interest Dr. Wasmann's “Last Reply” in the March number of this journal (page 74), and hasten to say that I was by no means “angry” when I wrote the answer referred to. I was only pained to think that a man of Dr. Wasmann's eminence in the scientific world would stoop to send to a colleague a specimen without marks of any kind for identification, in order to have him commit himself to an opininon when deprived of the subtle influence of at least a locality label.

Hypolæpus Viereckii, sp. nov.—Dark, abdomen whit beneath, legs partly white, wings hyaline, nervures whit at base. Length, 7–8 mm.

♀. — Head shining black; face below the insertion of the antennæ, a narrow band between the antennæ and the eyes, head above the eyes, and the temples, white; antennæ black, nine-jointed, third slightly arcuate, thicker and longer than the fourth, which is in turn longer than the fifth, and so on to the last. Thorax shining black, laterally in front of wings white; wings hyaline, nervures brown, whitish at base of wing; first transverse cubitus transparent, without colour, second submarginal cell receiving two recurrent nervures, lanceolate cell petiolate, only one marginal cell; legs dark brown, all coxæ and trochanters, tibiæ execpt tips and basal third of posterior femora, white; posterior tibiæ slightly enlarged, longitudinally sulcate, first joint of posterior tarsi as long as the other three combined, the last joint being especially short.

In the October number of the Canadian Entomologist, I told of the appearance at Levis of a tortoise-beetle new to this Province.

A question as to the identiy of this insect having been raised, I asked Professor E.A. Popenoe, of Kansas State Agricultural College (to whom i was sending specimens), for his opinion upon it. I also sent specimens to the Coleopterist of the British Museum, with a like request. Both gentleman very kindly answered me.

Dr. Burnside Foster, of St. Paul, a short time since sent me three Dipterous larvæ taken from the cutaneous tissue of a three-weeks-old infant, born on the seventh mont, at Superior, Wisconsin. I at first thought the insect to be Lucilia, but being in doubt, and having no biological collection in this group for reference, I immediately sent it to Washington, receiving a telegramin reply that Mr. Coquillett had identified it as Gastrophilus epilepsalis.

In the Canadian Entomologist for August, Mr. Theobald described a Cullex Kelloggii as new; the description agrees well with the specimens on which I founded Culex tarsalis*, and undoubtely refers to the same species.

My specimens were from the same lot as the one which Dr. Williston described as Culex, n. sp. †, to which description Lieut. Giles applied the name of Culex Willistoni, n. sp.‡ the latter name is therefore also synonym of tarsalis.

In Professor T.D.A. Cockerell's “ First Supplement to the Check-list of the Coccidæ” (published in the bulletin of the Illinois State Laboratory of Natural History, 1899), the following footnote occurs on page 398: “Phenacaspis, Cooley an Ckll., will be a new genus, to include P. nyssæ, Chinensis, engeniæ, etc., hitherto placed in Chionaspis. Mr. Cooley and the present writer agree that these forms have no generic relationship with genunie Chionaspis except through Aulacaspis and Diaspis. I leave Mr. Cooley to publish the generic characters, and classify the species.”

The Entomological Society of Ontario has been kindly remembered by Messrs. J. and H. Comstock, Evanston, Ill., in a contribution to its collection of a number of butterflies taken by themselves in a trip through Colorado during the season of 1902. Carefully done up in papers, named and dated, with the localities in which they were taken, these specimens are of special interest as representing much-discussed forms of that famous locality, which hitherto have been known to us only by name.

Xiphydria erythrogaster, sp. nov.— ♀. Length, 9.8 mm. Head and thorax black, marked with yellow as follows: The black of the head is confined to the occiput, a large spot on the crown is dilated on each side, but does not quite reach the eye, while the yellow is confined to the cheeks, the face to above the insertion of the antennæ, the front orbits and a V-shaped mark above the eyes. Mandibles yellow, with black teeth; prothorax yellow, with a black line on collar above and a black mark in the lateral depressions; mesonotum black, with two yellow spots on the disc; scutellum with the axillæ yellow; meso- and meta-sternum yellow, with black marks.