The following species of Coleoptera are sufficiently isolated or conspicuous to warrent their description apart from any monographic treatment of the genera to which they belong. The types of the three species sent of Prof. Snow remain in his collection, or rather that of the University of Kansas; the types of the remaining species are in the writer's collection.

Eucosma Pergandeana, n. sp.— Expanse of wings, 16–20 mm. Head, palpi except a touch of fuscous on the outside, basal segment of the antennæ, whitel flagellum of antennæ fuscous, annulate with white. Thorax varying from white to pale straw colour.

Ground colour of fore wings white or pale cream colour; the outer half of the costa with about eight oblique fuscous lines, which are lost in the fuscous dorsal portion of the wing. The remaining portion of the wing is streaked longitudinally with fuscous, but so diffuse as to render the lines very indistinct, and the surface behind and beyond the cell is nearly unifromly pale grayish fuscous in some specimens; the ocelloid patch near the anal angle is represented by fragments of three fine blackish lines, more or less obliterated and broken by a short vertical bar of more of les distinct metallic pale gray scales; a similar one beyond follows the outer margin and joins the first below, but is broken near the middle of its course.

Among a large series of Coleoptera collected by Mr. C.H. T. Townsend in the northwestern part of Mexico and forwarded to some years ago, I not an interesting new Carabus, which may be described as follows:-

Carabus Townsendi, n. sp.—Somewhat similar to Forreri, Bates— Ann. & Mag., N. Hist, ser. 5 IX, p.320— from Durango, but narrower in form, the elytra having similarly close-set unimpressed series of very minute punctures but having each only two sereis of larger, widely-spaced, impressed foveæ, the inner of the three series of Forreri being wholly absolete, the middle series only present in basal half and the outer extending only to apical fourth, the lateral margin more narrowly reflexed and with bluish reflection. Length, 21 mm.; width, 9 mm.

Tortrix conflictana, Walk.— Five specimens: Lethbridge, Macleod and Pine Creek; VII., 8, to VII., 13. Larger and the bands more suffused than Eastern specimens.

Tortrix argentana, Clerck.— Three specimens; Macleod and Lethbridge; VIII., 8 to 15. I have a long series of this species from Western America, south nearly to Mexico, and north to British Columbia, likewise a series from Europe, and every time I examine them I am impressed with the feeling that our American species differs from the European, but further study is required before deciding either way, in the meantime the European name can stand.

Euxoa vestitura n. sp.— Ground colour dull smoky-brown, varying a little to reddish-brown in one direction and luteous in another. Head and thorax concolorous. Vestiture hairy rather than scaly, neither the collar nor the patagia well defined. Primaries with the usual maculation at least traceable and oftern distinct, never contrasting, the lines ranging from smoky to black. Basal line geminate, always marked on costa and oftern complete.

In “The Canadian Entomologist” for August, 1903 (*), I called attention to the sounds produced by Ranatra fusca, Pal. B. Further study has shown me that the bug I then referred to was in reality Ranatra quadridentata, Stal., and that R. fusca is very rare in the north, if, indeed, it occurs at all, the former being the commonest species in the Eastern United States, the latterm on the other hand, being more southern. The nots referreed to, therefore, apply to R. quadridentata, Stal.

The only apology for publishing the following descriptions at this time, is that the names have been made use of in identifying speciments for Messers. Saunders, Winn and Yound, and that “MMS” species are the bete noire of entomology—effecutally locking up a species indefinitely, and prohibiting any one form referring to it in any way, no matter how common it may be or how interesting a life-history someone else may have worked out.

The last week in May, 1904, the writer spent on a collecting trip for Coleoptera in Central Texas. The places collected at were Ft. Worth, or more properly speaking, Station 6, five miles east of the city, on the electric line to Dallas, May 23; Granbury, on the Brazos River, May 24; Brownwood, on Pecan Bayou, May 25–26; Winchell, on the Colorado River, May 26–27; Brady, on Brady Creek, May 27; and Camp San Saba, on San Saba River, two hundered miles south west of Ft. Worth, on May 27–28.

Ischnoptera adusta, n. sp.—Description—Male: Colour dark yellowish, with eyes black and the disc of the pronotu slightly mottled with fuscous and the tips of the elytra and wings fuliginous. Anterior femora beneath of the inner margin armed on the apical two-thirds with about ten semiequal, equidistant spines, the basal third unarmed. Subgenital plate roundly incised apically; apical styles long, slender rigid spines extending about half their length beyond the apex of the subgenital plate; cerci long, fusiform.

1. The larva and pupa of Uranotœnia Lowii, Theobald (Fig 23). Collected from a pool covered with Marsilia polycarpa, Hooker, near the bridge over the Rio Cobre Canal, Spanish Town, Jamaica. Found in association with Culex fatigans, Wied., and Cellia albipes, Theo., January 1st, 1905. Seen in the breeding-jar, the larvæ assumed a horizontal position, just below the surface film the extremity of the siphon alone being in contact with the surface flim. They moved forward in sharp jerks quite unlike any other Jamaican Culicid.

Halictus hortensis, n. sp. ♀.—Length, 5 mm. Head and thorax green, abdomen black, with the apical margins of the segments brown. Head nearly as broad as long, face finely and densely punctured, thinly clothed with a short white pubescence; mandibles bidentate, rufous at tips; antennæ black, pubescent, flagellum with minute appressed hairs, brownish beneath. Mesothorax nearly bare, finely and sparsely punctured; disc of metathorax rounded or somewhat traingular, evenly and finely rugulose or roughened.

On the morning of March 24th, 1904, at 9 o'clock, in the town of Paris, Texas, many dark-coloured flies were noticed crawling over the trunks and lower limbs of two adjacent box elder trees (Negundo species). They proved to be the above species.

A number of interesting undescribed species of Coleoptera have accumulated in my cabinet, principally as the result of my own trips to the western parts of the country. The description of several of these follow, care having been taken to avoid describing forms belonging to genera of great extent which have not been recently monographed:

If it were necessary to emphasize the need of revision in the Geometrina, the genus Venusia furnishes an excellent example. It has established by Curtis, an English writer, in 1839, with cambrica, Curt., as its type. Since that time, three additional species, according to Mr. Meyrick, from New Zealand have been placed under it. In our own fauna, Dr. Hulst placed three species as its representatives—cambrica, Curt., comptara, Walk., duodecimlineata, Pack.

Ceratina submaritima, Ckll.— Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci., Phila., p. 352, 1897.

Corvallis, Or., ♀ ♀, 29th May, 4th June. 1897 24th, 25th May, 7th June, 1898; ♂ ♂, 15th May, 1897; 25th, 27th April, 7th May, 1898; 21st May, 3rd, 9th June, 1899. Elkton, Or, ♀ ♀ and ♂ ♂, 17t January, 1897.

The bees now described not only appear to differ from any previously published; but they have been kindly examined by Messrs. Viereck and Titus, and found to differ from all of the numerous species which they have named in manuscript, and will shortly publish.

In 1874 Dr. Packard described two nearly allied species of Geometrid moths, one a Larentia duodecimlineata, the types being from California, and the other as Larentia perlineata, from New York. There can be no doubt, I think, as to the insect he had before him when describing perlineata. That species seems to be a distinct and easily recognized one, although there is a pretty and not uncommon variety of it which is sometims confused with Euchœca lucata by those who are not very familiar with this group of moths.

I am glad that Mr. Taylor has shown in the Feb. Can. Ent. that the “types” of Somatolophia umbripennis and Diastictis festa in the Hulst collection at New Brunswick, N. J., are not the true types. A specimen that contradicts the description cannot be the type, however labelled, unless it can be shown that the author has made an error. I do not think that Dr. Hulst made errors in description in these cases, and I do not think either that the true types were destroyed as Mr. Taylor suggests.

Iulidæ are not insects, and my only hope of getting this note on record is in that their work in the corn-fields of the Middle West may be easily confused with that of several very different species of insects.