57. Tychea, Koch 1857, Pflanzelause, 296 t. graminis, Koch.*

58. Smynthurodes, Westwood, 1849, Gardener's Chron. 420, t. beta, Westw.

The following list of Orthoptera chiefly comprises the species taken by the writer during a month's trip to the Canadian Pacific Coast in 1897. But few stops were made, most of the specimens being taken at the various stations along the line of the Canandian Pacific Railway. As a rule, but a few minutes to half an hour were spent at each stopping place, but in Manitoba and British Columbia longer periods were spent, and better opportunities were to be had for collecting.

Theoneo stridula, new species.—Male: Length, 78 mm; cephalo thorax, wide.35 mm., long.39 mm. In the following table the measurments are give in millimeters:

Cephalothorax short and moderately elevated, sides arcuate, slightly narrowed in fornt, dull grayish-yellow, eyes surronded by narrow black rings; posterior eyes in a slightly recurved line, equal, the median separated from each other by one and one-half times their diameter, and from the lateral by one-half their diameter; anterior eyes in a very slightly procurved line, subcontiguous, the median smaller that the lateral; median ocular area wider behind than in front and wider than long.

In the original description of this insect, * Dr.Riley says that on account of its uniform pale yellow colour it is easily distinguished from Trichogramma minutum, Riley, which is black. Unfortunately, this does not hold.† Out of the hundreds of specimens of pretiosa reared during the enire season of 1904, at Paris, Texas, from the eggs of Heliothis obsoleta, Fabricius, there appeared from a lot of host eggs on Sept. 20th a number of dark individuals, which could easily have been mistaken for a distinct species.

The Association of Offical Entomologists of the Cotton Belt will meet at Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Nov. 13 and 14, 1906.

The Association of Farmers' Institute Workers will meet at Baton Rouge, Nov. 12 and 13; the Association of Offical Horticultural Inspectors, Nov. 14, 15 and 16, and the Association of Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations, Nov. 14, 15 and 16.

Cyathissa quadrate, n. sp.—Ground colour creamy-white, more or less washed with luteous, the maculation black, contrasting. In type it is like that of percara, and the lines are identical in course; there is the same basal dash, and the quadrate pale blotch on the costa in median space is very similar. But there is no green shading whatever in the wing, the black markings are more intense, more contrasting, usually broader, and, in the median space, they extend below the costal pale area, shading into smoky-brown at about the middle of the wing.

On the 24th of last September Mr. Ernest Shoemaker and I went insect-collecting along the edge of the meadow on the south side of Long Island, not far from the Brooklyn City line. We were searching particularly for Cincindelas but, the day being rather cold, we did not see as many as we had expected.

Bombus iridis phaceliœ, n. var.—♀. Hair of face black, with a little pale intermixed; yellow hair of thorax in front dense, not at all mixed with black; yellow of scutellum neither divided nor mixed with black; hair on inner side of basal joints of tarsi dark; hair on second and third abdominal segments entirely deep red (much less dense, and not nearly so bright as in B. ternarius), but second with a large bare median triangle; hair of fourth segment and sides of fifth yellow.

Conotrachelus tuberculicollis, new species.— Form and size of juglandis, but thorax distinctly tuberculate, colour more uniform grayish, and the post-median fascia on elytra indistinct. Head densely covered with ochreous and white scale-like hairs; eyes separated by about the width of the beak; the beal slender, separated from the heady by a shglt transverse impression, about as long as head and thorax and slightly curved, distinctly tricarinate to about apical third, where it is closlely punctate; from base to about middle the surface is sparsely clothed with pale scale-like hairs; antennæ insterted about apical third, first joint of funicle slightly stouter than the second, but of nearly equal length.

The State of Washington is remarkable for the possession of two very different fauneæ: that of the damp coast region, and that of the inland plains and valleys.* The bees of the coast region have become fairly well known through the collections of Professor T. Kincaid and others, but the inland bee-fauna has as yet yielded to science only a fraction of its riches.

Recently a medical friend, Dr. A.E, Ayler, called my attention to some “worms” which he had found under pecuilar conditions.

A patient, an elderly lady of one of the best families, was suffering from a malignant tumor—a melanotic sarcoma—located in the small of the back. The tumor was about the size of a large walnut. On examination the doctor was surprised to find, close to the stalk and between the tumor and the body, some ten or tweleve “worms” which were feeding upon the diseased tissues.

In the Annales of the Belgain Entomological Society (Vol. 50, pp. 30–6, Feb. 2, 1906). my friend Mr. Schouteden has added a considerable number of genera and species to my list, extending it to 1906.

The number of omissions, even before 1905, is so large, comparatively that it demands some explanation from me.

A fine large Oncideres, which agrees very well with the description of Thomson's tesselatus, was sent me lately for identification by Prof. Snow, who collected this fine addition to our fauna in S. Arizona this year. This occurence of this species in our fauna gives me the opportunity to make known another large Oncideres from Texas, apparantly new, which belongs with tesselatus to the sub-genus LochmŒcles.

I am glad that Dr. Dyar has given us a note on the Euchœca comptaria problem, and that up to certain point he supports my view.

Without a doubt, he is right in insisting that the type species of Nomenia must be called 12-lineata, Packard.

The genus Trichodezia, Warren, established in 1895 (Nov. Zool. II, Part 2, page 119), will now contain two of our species. In a former paper (Can. Ent., Vol. 38, p. 38) I stated that Euchœca albovittata, Guen., should, as Mr. Warren placed it, be recognized as the type of this genus, and ventured to predict that Euchœca Californiata, Pack., would go with it. Since then, through the kindness of Mr. Beütenmuller, of the Amer. Museum of Nat. History, N.Y., I have received a male of this species, and find the peculiar generic characters present.

Some years ago I attempted to make tables to separate the species of Eulecanium. The attempt was not wholly successful; partly on account of the difficulty of the subject, and partly because there are no doubt more names than species in this genus, and the first step should probably be to reduce a number to the synonmy.

Retinia Austriana, n. sp.—The Austrian Pine (Pinus laricio Austriaca) in the vicinity of Toronto is badly infested by the larveæ of a moth which is apparently an undescribed species of the genus Retinia. It resembles in certain particlars the form Retinia Comstockiana. This species was described in the Canadian Entomologist of Aug., 1879, by Prof. C. H. Fernald State College, Orono, Me. The specimens, however, were obtained at Ithaca, N.Y. Where they were found boring in the small branches of Pinus rigida.

The long-expected paper by Dr. Wm Dietz entitled: “Revision of the Tineid Subfamilies, Amydriinœ and Tineinœ, inhabiting North America,” appeared during the writer's absence in Europe, and a subsequent summer's expedition to the West Indies make it impossible to give this important contribution to the knowledge of our American Tinediæ the attention it deserved before early this year.

The larvæ of the four species described below were collected, with a large number of others, form temporary pools which form on the plains around this city after the seasonal rains. The different species were separated into breeding bottles, and specimens of the larval skin casts and of the larvæ themselves, when abundant, were preserved for study.