These notes relate chiefly to species taken in the vicinity of Quebec City, all to species taken in the Province of Quebec during 1892–1893. I am greatly indebted to Mr. W. H. Harrington for the identification of many of the following:

Cicindela longilabris, Say. June 5 and 8. Fort woods, Levis.

I have recently been investigating the synonymy, and the natural history generally, of the two species of geometers which are frequently confused under the above name,* and as Packard was not quite clear about the matter, it seems desribale to call attention to the true position of their American representative.

Owing to the extensive commerce in nursery stock and fruits, which has been carried on all over the world for many years, it has become a matter of very considerable difficulty to form any adequate idea of the original Coccid fauna of any given part of the globe. Restriction of the imporations of diseased nursery stock and fruit is new, and for years plants and fruit, carrying thousands of scal insects, have been landed almost daily at most large seaports.

Staphylinus erythropterus, Linn. This beetle has been but once recorded in America, the speciment being noted from Detriot. I have now to record it as inhabiting this section of Canada, and, at the same time to correct an error which has been put in circulation through my agency. When Dr. LeConte visited me in July 1883, he named a beetle for me as S.cœsareus, Cederh. (ornaticauda, Lec.), remarking that it has only once been found in America.

Galls of this species were sent me by Mr. Trevor Kincaid, of Olympia, Washington, who writes that they were collcted from the twigs of Quercus garryana. The galls are ellipsoids, from 5 to 7 mm. in greatest diameter; they are smooth, monothalamous and snuff coloured, both externally and internally, and are attached by a small projection to the side of small twigs.

Mr. C. H. Tyler Townsend has resigned his position as Curator of the Museum at Kingston, Jamaica, and has returned to Las Crues, New Mexico. He begs that his correspondents will take note of his change of address.