Among the species of Pesotettix occuring in Indiana, there is one which I have never been able to place satisfactorily to myself. In my first paper on Indiana Acrididæ I called it P. rotundipennis, Scudder, upon the authority of Mr. S. H. Scudder, to whom specimens had been sent.

1. Idiocerus Amœmus, n. sp.

Allied to I. suturalis, but smaller. Female of a uniform pale yellow colour, pronotum and scutellum tin gedwith fulvous or ferruginous, the former with a spot behind the inner angle of each eye and a median vitta, pale. Mesonotum with a black band bordering the scutellum, at least posteriorly; extreme tip of scutellum yellow. Elytra hyaline very slightly tinged with fulvous, becoming smoky toward the apex; nervures pale yellow. Wings hyaline, highly iridescent. Eyes rufous. Oviduct ferruginous.

V. The Coccinellidæ of Ontario and Quebec.

This family includes a moderate number of beetles, usually of compact, convex and often more or less hemispherical form, coloured as a rule in striking patterns of yellows or reds and black. In most cases the surface is glabrous, though in Scymnus and some less extensive genera it may be plainly pubescent. Technically, the family may be known by the clavate antennæ, the three-jointed tarsi with dilated second joint and the partially membranous dorsal abdominal segments; the ventaral segments are free, the first usually with coxal lines, and the claws ordinarily appendiculate or toothed.

Mr. Elwes has again favoured us with one of his periodical Revisions of Genera, the last of which relating to Argynnis, was reviewed by me in the Can. Ent., XXII., p. 81, 1890.

It is stated that Mr. James Edwards is responsible for the matter of what are called “clasps” of the male, meaning the claspers of other authors; and these parts of the whole body of abdominal appendages are the only ones treated of, or relied on. He has also given a comparative table at the end, based partly on the facies, and partly on the claspers.

This paper contains descriptions of some apparently new species of inchneumons from British Columbia. Most of these are contained in a very interesting collection made by the Rev. G. W. Taylor, during his residence at Cedar Hill, near Victoria. V.I. When Mr. Taylor left Ottawa to return to Victoria, about three years ago, he very generously handed over to me his Hymenoptera, only asking that I should publish a list of the species. To enable me to fulfil this request, I have found it necessary to first prepare descriptions of the new species.

Thomas Say described one species of Psychoda from the United States; Walker descrbied another from Hudson's Bay; and Dr. Williston, in Entom. News, 1893, described a third species from New York. I have noticed in the vicinity of Sea Cliff, N. Y., seven species, only one of which I have identified as previously described. Most of the forms I have collected are probably common elsewhere in the Eastern States and in Canada.

In his “Fortegnelse over Norges Lepidoptera” (Christiania Videnskabs-Selskabs Forhandlinger for 1893, No. 13), Dr. W. H. Schoyen, State Entomologist of Norway, has given us a list of 1267 species of Lepidoptera that inhabit his country, tabulated to show the Provinces in which they occur, and the exact latigude over which each species is known to be distributed. The interest which this list posesses for the American entomologist is in the number of species it contains that are common to both countries.

With the December number, the Canadian Entomologist completed its twenty-fifth volume. The Council of the Entomological Society of Ontario have endeavored to make it as useful as possible to the working entomologists of North America. The publications of our Society consist chiefly of the Annual Report published by the Hon. Minister of Agriculture and Arts of Ontario, in his annual report to the Legistaure, and the monthly magazine, the Canadian Entomologist. The former of these is devoted particularly to papers of economic interest, and is distributed not only to our own members, but to every member of the Fruit Growers' Association of Ontario, to members of Parliament, the Mechanics's Institutes, etc., making an issue of about 6,000 copies.

1. The CicindelidÆ of Ontario and Quebec.

[The following is the first of a series of papers which Mr. Wickham is specially preparing for this magazine. It is intended that they should treat of all the more conspicuous families of Coleoptera and present in tabular form the genera and species that are found in the Provinces of Ontario and Quebec; a descriptive list will also be given of the species, so far as known, that are to be found in the other provinces of the Dominion of Canada.

Having recently put my own collection of Dectcidæ into systematic order and treated the collection of the U. S. National Museum entrusted to me by Dr. C. V. Riley in a similar manner, I have thought it would assist n obtaining better material for a future monogroph if I were to publish at least a generic discriminatio of the material at hand. At the same time I am able to clear up most of the synonymy of the species and assign to therir proper location the various described species, very few of which (7 out of 23) will be found to hae been originally placed in the genera to which they are here assigned.

It is ten years since Prof. Comstock published his list of North American Coccidæ*, and as the work done since that time is scattered through very various publications, it seems opportune to present a check list, form which the student can learn precisely what species are now credited to our fauna.

There are still a few species of Agrilus in our fauna whose food plant is unknown, Any contribution in that direction may, therefore, be of interest. It is a genus that seems to be much neglected bv collectors, owing undoubtedly to the difficLrlty met with in separating some of the species. There are several seemingly difiicult ones, however, which are stamped with such distinct characters as to make their study exceedingly interesting. With Dr. Horn's valuable paper, “The Species of Agrilus of Boreal America,” and a well-trained eye, one should be able to get along without much assistance. That does not apply to myself, for it was only after Mr. Blanchard kindly undertook to help me out that my material was properlY labelled,

Egg.—Pear-shaped, broad at base and rounded, tapering rapidly to a small, slightly depressed, truncated summit; marked by about twenty-four low, vertical, not sharply defined ribs, which extend a little more than half way from the top to base, but vary in individuals; below the ribs to base thickly covered with shallow and irregular (both as to size and shape) indentations, not separated by definite ridges or threads; colour, when laid, pale green. Duration of this stage, nine days.

Laphygma flavimaculata, Harvey.

Determined by Prof. J. B. Smith. Eggs of this species occured to me in the Hawaiian Islands at Kaawoloa, Kona, Hawaii and at Honolulu, Oahu.

Egg.–Nearly spherical, flattened at base, densely striated vertically; of a flesh-coloured tint, and covered with gray down; diameter, 0.6 mm. Depostied in a large mass on a grass stem.

This paper contains the descriptions of the remaining new species of Ichneumonidæ from Vancouver Island. For the generic determinations of Amorphota, Semiodes, Phobetes and Hypocryptus, representing genera not hitherto reconized in America, I am indebted to Mr. Ashmead.

In April of last year I found on the banks of the Ottawa River, at Como, Province of Quebec, a number of very fine stems of a species of Golden-rod. These stems were bare and dry, and bleached by the winter storms. Their attraction for me lay in this—nearly every one of them was burdened with a fine large Trypeta-gall. On some of them two such galls were to be seen.

It appears that comparatively little is knorvn regarding the external sexual characters of species in the family Scolytidæ. Indeed, the species of this family are among the most difficult of Coleoptera to study, or to properly identify, unless one has access to a large series of correctly named and classified examples.

My local material allied to the European Aphirape consists of 22 males, 11 females. These have been studied in comparison with 3 ♂, 1 ♀ typical Aphirape from Germany, 2 ♀ 2 ♀ Aphirape var. Ossianus from Northern Finland, 1 ♂ Ossianus from Sweden, 1 ♂ 1 ♀ Aphirape var. Triclaris from Labrador, and 3 ♂ 1 ♀ Triclaris collected by Mr. H. K. Morrison in souther Colorado.

This rather common moth seems to have attracted little attention, though the larvæ are voracious feeders. The moths may be seen flying over grass lands in the afternoon and early evening during June, July and August. They are attracted to lights but very little, only a few being taken in the trap-lanterns at* Ithaca, N.Y., in 1889.