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.).

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.

(1) Lecanium caryœ, Fitch, var. canadense, v. nov.

♀ scale smooth, shiny, red-brown, convex, malleate, but not or hardly plicate. Length 4, breadth 3, height 2 mm., varying to length 5, breadth 4, height 3 mm. (Some Maine specimens 6 mm. long.) Removed from the twigs, the scales leave an oval white mark. (Nappan scales are paler and more yellowish, also somewhat smaller. Posterior incision perhaps a little longer; scales also rather more tending to be plicate.)

♀ (Type). Length about 4 mm.; head broad and short, with very wide face; clypeus and labrium entirely black, as also supraclypeal area; lateral face-marks present, pale yellow, long and very narrow, a little broadened below. The upper end, on orbit, a little above level of antennae; mandibles yellowish-white with the apical part broadly ferruginous; scape slender, yellow in front; flagellum thick black, the under side pale yellowish; front and vertex shining, dark olive green; thorax shining dark green, the mesothorax and scutellum very brilliant, mesothorax with thin erect white hair; tubercles, a slender line along sides of mesothorax above base of wings, and a short stripe at each side on upper border of prothorax, all pale yellow; wings clear hyaline, nervures practically colorless ; stigma large, hyaline, with a dusky border ; hind legs black, except that the femora are yellow beneath; middle legs with the femora broadly yellow at apex and the tibiae yellow in front; front legs similarly colored, the tihiae very broadly pale yellow; anterior and middle basitarsi pale yellow and the small joints reddish, but hind tarsi black; abdomen shining, dorsally dark, slightly brownish, the first tergite with only a very small yellow mark at each side; tergites 2 to 4 with successively broader pale yellow bands, having a linear interruption in middle; fifth tergite broadly yellowish on each side; apical plate pale reddish; venter light yellow.

Mr. L. Bruner has kindly identified the following Orthoptera, found at 10,000 feet and upwards:-

Circotettix undulatus Thos. near Micawber Mine, Aug. 6.

Ceuthophilus maculatus Scudd.,♀, near Micawber mine.

The following notes are intended to throw further light on the affinities of certain little-known species, which I have lately examined:-

(1.) Chionaspis major, Ckll.—Found on Heliotrope at Antigua by Mr. C. A. Barber. The ♀ resembles that of Diaspis lanatus, but may be distinguished from it without difficulty.

Female. Length about 7 mm., anterior wing 6.5 ; robust, without much hair, the abdomen bare and shining, without hair bands, but the mesopleura with rather abundant greyish-white hair; head and thorax dark green, the thorax posteriorly and at its sides almost black; mandibles black, faintly reddish apically; margin of clypeus black; face shining green; mesothorax dark, more bluish green, dull in front, shining posteriorly; scutellum steel-blue, postscutellum black, but metathorax, seen from above, olive green; legs and abdomen black; antennae black; tegulae dark brown, with minute punctures, only seen under microscope; clypeus flattened in middle, with several longitudinal grooves; front dull; vertex shining blue; mesothorax without distinct sculpture as seen under a lens, but with minute rather sparse punctures on a minutely lineolate surface; scutellum strongly bigibbous, the elevations shining; area of metathorax large, dull, with a shining margin, plications strong on basal half; posterior truncation sharply bounded; wings conspicuously reddish, stigma and nervures dull red ; second cubital cell large, receiving recurrent nervure near end; hair on inner side of hind tarsi pale reddish; hind spur with four very long oblique spines, and a fifth rudimentary one; abdomen without evident punctures, as seen under lens, the microscope shows excessively minute scattered ones.