The following species of Semioscopis (Epigraphia) seem undescribed. They were sent for names by Messers. F.A. and H.D. Merrick, of New Brighton, Pennsylvania, and have donated by them to the National Museum. These new species closely resemble several of the European ones, yet seem all specifically separable.

In reference to recent “protest” in the pages of the CAN. ENT. (Vol. XXXIII., p. 263) against a change in the generic name Eupethecia, I believe its abandonment, in favour of a Hübnerian name chosen cut of the Verzeichniss by Mr. Meyrick, to be invalid. I retain it myself in the collection here for the reason that its date is certain, and there is a rule of the German zoological code that if exact dates cannot be ascertained (and this is the case for that part of the Verzeichniss which contains the Geometrids), preference shall be given to the genus which has a type cited. This is reasonable, and custom has correctly sanctioned the use of Eupethecia. I an indebted to Mr. L.B. Prout, of London, England, for the information that Curtis himself, in founding the genus Eupethecia, explicitly chooses absinthiata, L., as type of the genus, April 1, 1825. In my study of the Geometrid genera (1895–96), only a fragment of which appeared in the Transcations of the Entomological society of London, I pointed out some of the errors into which I have reason to believe Mr. Meyrick has fallen.

At the meeting of the Academy of Science of St. Louis, on the evening of January 6, 1902, Mrs. Wm. Bouton, on behalf of herself and a considerable number of other persons, presentd to the Academy a collection of 633 butterflies mounted on Denton tablets, on condition that the collectio should be made accessible to the public.

In the early part of May of the present year (1902) the writer made an attempt to collect Cicindelæ in the pine belt of North Carolina. While opportunities for observing the distribution of species were too meagre to be of much practical value, certain facts were noted that may be of interest to those studyind the genus.

The first locality visited was Jamestown, a station on the line of the Southern Railway, distant about 220 miles from the coast and 40 from the Virgina line.On the sand bars and banks of Deep River, a tributary of Cape Fear River, beautiful specimens of repanda were taken in abundance. A single duodecimguttata and a single vulgaris of the typical size were taken on the same ground, and few specimens of sexguttata, both six-and eight-spotted, on sanday paths along the wooded banks of the river.

Cryptophyllaspis Rübsaameni , n. sp.— ♀. Orange, oblong, caudal end sunken, overlapped at the sides by lobiform projections; no circumgenital glands; anal orifice broad-oval, about 17 μ long, and distant about 39 μ from the bases of the median lobes; lobes and squames formed just as in C. occultus and of the general type of Aspidiotus cyanophylli; three pairs of lobes, not even the median ones darkened in the least; median lobes slightly notched on each side; squames narrow and pointed, strongly fringed, beyond the third lobe are three double squames, each having the appearance of two squams united at the base; interlobular incisions with thickened edges, of the Diaspidiotus type; two rows of dorsal glands, not very numerous, on each side of the caudal end; spines small.

Glossa lanceolate shorter than menturn; paraglossæ reaching to joint 4 of labial palpi; maxillary palpi six-jointed, longer than lamina, joints short 5 labial palpi with joints subequal, first one robust; marginal cell about as long as first discoidal, obliquely truncate, appendiculate; cubital cells equal, second receiving the first recurrent nervure about one-third from base and the second near apex; facial foveæ present in both sexes; tibial scopa of female thin, with rather long simple hairs.

Aleptina inca, n. gen., et sp.

Two males, Arizona (Cox) ; So, Ariz., Apr. 1–15 (Poling).

Fore wings gray, ciuereous shaded at base, followed by a large ochreous patch that extends to the t.a. line on lower half of wing. T.a. line upright, germinate, black, trvice waved; orbicular large, oval, whitish, black ringed and containing a large, oval, brown-black centre; reniform similar, but obscure and lost in a pale shade that extends to costa at t.-p. line. T.-p. line black, parallel to external margin cut off above by the whiteshade, followed closely outwardry by a blackish subterminal line. Acrenulated, pale, blackish edged terminal line. Fringe pale, dark spotted. Hind wings whitish, a dusky shading before the fringe. Abdomen gray; thorax concolorous with fore wings. Expanse 23mm.

I was much interested by Mr. Lynran's careful paper on a species of Gortyna, boring in burdcck. If aerala, Lyman, is a good American species it shoutd have an alternative food plant, since the burdock is imported from Europe. From Mr. Lyman's detailed statements, the distinction from necopina is assured. The differentiation form nitela is not so clearly given.

With regard to nitela, Mr. Lyman is quite correct, that Guenée first describes nebris and then nitela; and in my catalogue of 1874 I give the two as distinct species in the above order of their description. But in my Buffalo Check List of 1875 I place nitela first; and in 1882 I retain this sequence and record nebris as a variety of nitela. But I am not agreed with Mr.Lyman that nebris, the white-spotted type, represents the original form the species. I think the whit filling in of the ordinary spots a specialization, therefore a variation from the original form of the species.

Holcaspis Arizonica, n. sp.– Gall globular, 9 mm. diam, pale ochreous, not shiny, attached to the base of the petiole of a leaf of Quercus Arizonica, Sargent. There is a projecting point next to the place of insertion. Within, the gall is brown, fibrous, moderately dense, at least dithalamous.

Fly emerging April 19, two females. Body 3½ mm. long, wings 3⅔mm; antennæ 2 mm., 15-jointed, joint 3 considerably the longest. Length of joints in μ: (3·) 360, (4·) 240, (5·) 200, (15·) 170. The joints, especially the apical ones, with fine longitudinal ridges, between which are rows of minute punctures. Head ferruginous; thorax and abdomen piceous; margins of mesthorax, and two spots on scutellum, dull ferruginous; legs bright ferruginous; anterior tibiæ with an apical projection' anterior tibial spurs bent; claws of all the legs falciform, with a large triangular basal tooth.

Coelioxys Foxii, n. sp.

Coelioxys vigilans, Fox, not Sm. Tr. Am. Ent. Soc, XVIII., 344, 1891, ♀ ♂.

Conspicuous by its deeply-punctured thoracic dorsum and the orange to yellowish pubescence.

♀ Length, 10.5 mm. Clypeus rugose, with close, large, poorly defined punctures, covered with a fine whitish pubescence, and having a whitish moustache; sides of the face covered with a yellowish appressed pubescence; near the ocelli this becomes erect; around the latter the hairs and dark brown, and form and erect fringe; a raised space in front a auterior ocellus, tapering down in front to a point terminating between insertion of antennæ, has longitudinal impressed line along the middle on its lower half, and branches up to each side of the anterior ocellus impunctate, dullish, the space between and surrounding punctured; an impunctate space between lateral ocelli and eye margins; top of the head punctured, dullish, the punctures smaller than those on dorsulum, almost bare; cheeks with appressed pubescence paler than that on sides of face.

Among the ways I find that one can study the changes in the insect fauna of a iocality as years go on is to occasionally go back to some such section where one has years ago been familiar with the insects to be found there and note the number of new comers or, possibly, the passing of some of the old ones, though these last are by far the less numerous of the two.

Recently, while on a visit to my old home in De Kalb county, Northern Illinois, the insects of which I was pretty well acquainted with twenty years ago, but with which I have known little since that time, I was most unexpectedly met with complaints of the Buffalo carpet beetle, Anthrenus scrophulariæ, unheard of there until within a few years, and which I never captured there myself.