Some two years ago I received from Mr. E. A. Schwarz a single example of a curious Lucanide bearing labels “Kaweah, Cal.,” and “Ceruchus (?), n. sp.” This specimen, as I have since learned, was one of a considerable number taken by Mr. Ralph Hopping six years ago on grain and wild grasses growing near the grain on a small sandy hill at the locality indicated. In a letter just received from Mr. Hopping, he states that he has this year taken four fresh specimens, May 17–20, at the same place, one flying in the bright sunshine shortly after noon, the others at twilight. Mr. Hopping has kindly sent me three more specimens, and I have seen two others in the collection of Mr. Fuchs, also from the same source. These specimens are all males, and I have little doubt that Mr. Hopping's entire catch is of this sex.

Pedaliodes primera, sp. nov.

Habitat: Bolivia, near Cusilluni. Expanse, 2.25 inches.

Head and palpi, dark brown, nearly black, Antennæ, above, nearly black; beneath, dark rust colour. Legs, brownish. Thorax, black with brownish hairs. Abdomen, the same but lighter beneath.

Upper side of fore wings, entirely dark blackish brown. The hind margins are dentated, especially so on lower wings, The marginal interspaces of fore wings have a prominent white thread.

Anthophora catalinœ, n.sp.— ♀. Length 14 millim., black (including face, mandibles and antennæ), with fulvous, yellowish-white and black pubescence. Pubescence of face dull yellowish-white, a few black hairs at the sides of the clypeus, a long pale fulvous tuft on each side of the anterior ocellus; hair of vertex long, erect and black, of occiput yellowish-white, of cheeks yellowish-white above and white below; hair of thorax pale fulvous, mixed with black on mesothorax and scutellum; lower half of pleura clothed with black hair; abdomen with dense pale fulvous hair-bands at the apices of the first four segments; apex with black hair; ventral surface of abdomen with black hair, except at the sides, where the pale apical bands of the upper surface are combined for a short distance; legs clothed beneath with black hair, above largely with pale; fringe of anterior tarsi wholly black; long hair on outer side of hind tibia and basal joint of tarsus black on the anterior half (extending longitudinally) and shining very pale yellowish on the posterior half.

Catocala retecta, Grt.

Food-plant, hickory. Length of mature larva, two and one-half inches. Head rather flat, as broad as first segment, gray striped with dark brown, and with a broad black band, ragged iu front, running up each side to top of lobe, but not continued over the summit.

The dorsal stripe consists of a series of rounded, brown patches with a black central line; tubercles, although not large, tipped with white, and conspicuous; subdorsal stripes brown, interrupted and indistinct.

Mr. J. Chester Bradley has begun, in the May number of the “Entomological Student,” a monographic revision of the Evaniidœ of North America, a work badly needed by our students.

On learning from me that I had several new species in this family, he has requested that I should publish them at once, so that they may be incorporated in his monograph, which will be published in the Transactions of the American Entomological Society of Philadelphia.

While connected with expeditions sent out by the Department of Entomology and Ornithology, University of Nebraska, it has been the writer's good fortune to spend a portion of the summers of 1900 and 1901 in the extreme north-western corner of Nebraska in collecting the insects, birds and mammals of the region. Naturally the butterflies, the study of which has been something of a “hobby” with him for some years past, came in for no little share of attention.

Truth may be likened to a bull's-eye—it is much more difficult to hit than to miss. The “splitters” frequently throw their shots too high and the “lumpers” too low, and there are many other sources of aberration which cause the careless worker to miss the bull's-eye. It has sometimes been my misfortune to aim a little too high in monographic work, where the familiarity engendered by long and close investigation may have led to the assignment of too great weight to certain differential characters, but, in the case of the genera allied to Homœusa (Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc., VIII., p. 53), I feel myself obliged to dissent from the views advanced by Mr. Wasmann in the September number of this journal.

Since writing my first paper on the Coccidœ of British North America, a very large amount of new and interesting scale insects have been sent to me for study by Dr. Fletcher and Mr. John Dearness. In nearly every instance the twigs sent showed beyond question that the insects occurred upon the food-plants infested in injurious numbers; especially so of those found on blackberry, hazel-nut, spiræa, viburnum and oak. The following are new to the Canadian list:

Pulvinaria tiliœ, King and Ckll., 1898. (Native.) Mr. John Dearness sent these from Thedford, ont, on Cephalanthus occidentalis. IT was first recorded fronl Mass., found on Tilia Americana, Quercus and Ulmus, and described as a sub-sp. of P. innumerabilis, but further study proves it to be quite different from that species, and it should stand as P. tiliœ.