Shortly before the destruction of my laboratory in 1903, I began to study some of the young females of several species of Coccidœ, for the purpose of determining if there were any constant structural characters present that would enable one to identify the adult female scale, and if there were any characters could be used in the classification of the several genera.

While collecting at Brownwood, Texas, in the latter part of May, 1904, I secured half a dozen three- and four-inch sections of a Mesquite tree, about three inches in diameter, that had been cleared from land the preceding fall. The sections were infested with Coleopterous larv♀, and were put into a breeding box to see what would develop. The first transformation into imagoes was in July, when a small Ptinid, Trogoxylon Californicum, Lec., began to emerge in numbers.

Among a collection of beetles made by the late Dr. F. Stein, of Indianpolis, I found some years ago a specimen marked“platynus, sp? Indiana.— Finding no description fitting it in Dr. Horn's revision of the genus,* I sent it among other specimens for naming to Dr. E. A. Schwarz, of the U.S. Divison of Entomolgy. Under date of January 17, 1899, he wrote me that it was oPlatynus quadrimaculatus, horn; that it “was not represented in the U.S. National Museum collection, and that only a few specimens had ever been captured.”

1. In 1874 Dr Packard 1 described and figured a Californian Geometer under the name Acidalia subalbaria. The type was one female, and the specimen was figured in teh photographic plate accompanying the paper.

In his monograph 2 Dr. Packard repeats the description word for word, merely adding after the word antennæ, “which are well pectinated in the male” (for at this time he had both sexes of the species), and at the end of his account he says “the male antennæ are well pectinated, an unusual exception to their oridinary form in this genus.” A lithographed figure is given (Mon. plate x, p. 63) of the male specimen, but the markings are emphasized in a way which gives a wrong impression as to their distinctness.

In the following descriptions the term sericeous or sericeously roughened in applied to the silky lustre induced by the minute striation or roughening of the surface.

Colletes clypeonitens, n. sp.—. Length 11 mm. Clypeus prominent, polished, narrowly medially sulcate, its puncutres coarse but scattered and not forming striæ, its apex slightly emarginate and preceded by a transverse rim. Malar space one and one-half times as long as broad, finally striate.

The season was a very unsatisfactory one for Lepidoptera in my neighbourhood, so far as quality was concerned, and yer several new species turned up—new, that is to say, to this district—and there were sundry other occurrences which I think may be worthy of record.

40. Cordulegaster maculatus, Selys.—Port Sidney, 1897 (W. Brodie). Also reported from Ontario by Hagen.

41. Cordulegaster diastatops, Selys.—Port Sidny, June 17, 1896 (W. Brodie).

A meeting of the committee to organize a national entomological society, for which provision was made at the Philadelphia meeting of the Entomological Club of the A.A.A.S., was held June 28, 1906, in the Entomological Labortory of Cornell University. The New York Entomological Society was represnted by Mr. Carl Schæffer, the Chicago Entomological Society by Dr. James G. Needham, the Jugatæ (the Ithaca Society) by Professor J. H. Comstock, the Newark Entomological Society by Mr. J.A. Grossbeck, the Entomological Society of Ontario by Rev. Professor C. J. S. Bethune, and the American Entomological Society by Professor C.J.S. Bethune, and the American Entomological Society by Mr. J. Chester Bradley. At an adjourned meeting the Washington Entomological Society was represented by Mr. E.S.G. Titus.

Everyone interested in the study of insect life eagerly awaits the apporach of spring. It is at that time, probably more than at any other, that the keenest interest is shown in the subject by the majority of our collectors. How often, however, one begins enthusiastically in spring to collect insects of all kinds, becomes fascinated with the work and within a very short time gathers together a collection worthy of some notice; but, frequently, as the season advances, the interest begins to lag and soon something else takes the attention and the subject is dropped.

Working over some neglected material, I found, to my surprise, that the specimens of Ochodœus colleted by me last year in Arizona are separable into three distinct species, none of which agree with the descriptions of the North American species. A few years ago my brother sent me from California, with some other material, two specimens of what I take to be an Ochadœus. Unfortunately, I misplaced one of the specimens, and not wishing to dissect the single remaining one, I leave this species in this genus for the present, till more material is available.

Among some mosquitoes lately sent from Alaska is a species which, coming from the far north (65° N.), has the unique position of standing near three mosquitoes found in much warmer climates, i.e., Theobaldia annulata, Sharnk, found in Europe, Mexico and California, an Italian species of which Falbici says, “Fin ora fu trovata solamenta a Macareseed a Pato,” and penetrans, R. Desvoidy, found in France.

A curious little error has crept into the description of this mosquito, and has been carried into so many authors that it seems as if the easiest way would be for the insect to rearrange its markings.

Wiedmann, in his description (Ansse Europ. Zweifleg, Ins., p. 12, 1828) says: “Taster bräunlich schwarz, glieder an der Wurzel wenig shneeweiss,” but this is, of course, a broad generalization, and thwords are used loosely.

The species described below were all included in a paper on B.C. Geometridæ, which was read by title before the Royal Society of Cananda last May.

Unfortunaterly, it was not possible (owing to pressure of other work) for me to complete the paper in time for publication in this year's volume of the Transactions, and as the names have all appeared in a “Check List of the Lepidoptera of British Columbia,” recently published by the Provincial Department of Agriculture, it seems better to print the descriptions now in the Canadian Entomologist than to wait the appearance of next year's volume of the Royal Society's Transactions.

At every turn, since beginning my studies in the aquatic Hemiptera some four years ago, my attempts to verify some observation have been balked by the extreme meagreness of the information on the subject running all through the field of entomological literature. This lack is far more noticeable with reard to the immature stages of the Cryptocerata and of the aquatic and semi-aquatic forms of the Gymnocerata.

These notes refer to a small but interesting collection of Hemiptera taken about Lake Temagami in August, 1906, by my friend, Mr. William J. Palmer, of Buffalo. Before starting for a brief vacation trip to northern Ontario, Mr. Palmer very kindly offered to collect Hemiptera for me as time and circumstances would permit. On four days only was he able to do any collecting, but considering the unfavourable conditions, the results were remarkably good, both as to the amount and character of the material brought home.

A Geometrid moth sent to me for determination by Dr. Fletcher some time ago, appears to belong to the well-known European species, Himera pennaria, Linn. This species has not previously been recorded as occurring on this continent, and there is always the suspicion of a mistake when a species belonging to the Old World fauna is reported in America for the first time; but this species is distinctly labelled as captured by Mr. L. Fanshawe at Tamarisk, Manitoba, and I see no reason to doubt the genuineness of the record.