For many years I have collected diurnal Lepidoptera in the neighbourhood of Albany, N.Y., making a special study of established varieties, sports and minor vatieties within the species.

Among the Lycœnidœ the forms which have proved of greatest interest from this point of view are those afforded abundant material for investigation, and I.irus in particular has afforded abundant material for investigation, and long ago I was enabled to recognize several tendencies in the distribution of colour over both the wings and body, which made it possible to separate this species into groups or form-series.

150. Hadena (Xylophasia) remissa, Hbn.—Nine ♂ ♂ at light in 1903, and a few both sexes at light and treacle during 1904. Not previously met with. July 15th to Aug. 2nd. Prof. Smith says they are “somewhat paler in ground colour than New England examples.” In a general way the species resembles a pale ferens, with which species Mr. Hudson and I at first confused it whilst collecting.

Proteopteryx Willingana, Kearf.—Two additional specimens; Regina VII., 20. One strongly marked ♀ and one almost unicolorous ♂, the same as the types.

Ancyclis mediofasciana, Clem.—One specimen; Regina, VI., 18. Does not differ from Eastern examples; already recoreded by Dyar from Kaslo.

Having planned a trip to Europe for the early part of last spring, I was anxious to utlize the opportunity to compare some specimens with types in the British Museum, but as I was sailing to the Mediterranean and going tospend most of my time in Italy, it was impossible to take more than a very few specimens, as I had to carry them everywhere, and did not dare to intrust the box to anyone else to carry for me. I there for restirced myself to cigar-box full, chiefly Gortynas, two of them Appassionata and Harrssii, kindly lent me by Mr. Bird, and the rest from my own collection.

In a recent sending of parasitic Hymenoptera, bred by Dr. Filippo Silvestri, at the Laboratorio di Entomologia Agraria, Portici, Italy, sent me for names, I find a new Pezomachus, represented by both sexes.

Pezomachus Silverstrii, new species.— ♀. Length, 2.6 mm.; ovipositor a little longer than the petiole of the abdomen. Black and shining, impunctate except a feeble shagreening on the pleura; the metathorax is rounded off posteriorly, and without a trace of a transverse carina; antennæ 21-jointed, the fourth joint a little shorter than the third the flagellum brown-black, the extreme apex of the pedicel, or second joint of antennæ, yellowish; legs black, with the sutures of the trochanters, the apical third of front femora, front tibiæ narrowly at base and more or less beneath, and base of first joint of tarsi, testaceous, the rest of tarsi fuscous or brownish, but a little yellowish at sutures of the joints; hind tibial spurs white.

This species, described by Mr. A. Busck, in the Proceedings of the United States National Museum, XXXVII., P. 746, 1904, paper No. 1375, is Sciaphila trigonana, Walsingham. [Lepidoptera-Heterocera British Museum, Part IV., p. 22, 1879; Dyar's Catalogue, No. 5413; Smith's List, 1903, 5831.] The species is well figured by Walsingham, Plate LXV., fig. 7.—

In Schletterer's “Die Hymenopteren Gruppe der Evaniiden,” Annalen d. k. k. Nath.Hofmuseum Wien, IV., p. 311, read trochanterata, Cameron, for trochanterica, Cameron. Page 338, the locality for Evania semirubra, Cresson, should be Cuba. Page 118, in synonmy of Evania, date 1829, after “Evania, Curtis,” should come the following reference: “Brachygaster, Stephens Systematic Catalogue of British Insects.

In a very interesting collection of mosquitoes lately sent me from the Philippine Islands by Dr. Eugene R. Whitmore, 1st Lt. Asst. Surg. U.S.A., occur a couple of forms which seem entitled to position as new genere, and some others of merely specific interest. The new genera are separated, in the first instance by a combination of values that makes it seem secure, while in the second case it lies between Finlaya and Macleaya, and the differences are not so marked.

Bucculatrix Ainsliella, n. sp.—Antennæ about the fithts the length of the fore wings, annulated in dusky brown and dull yellow. Eye caps golden white, expanded. Apical tuft long, projecting foward, dark brown in centre, shading outwardly to dingy white. Face satiny cream white. Thorax cream white, more or less dusky, overlaid with dark brown scales, with small but distinct dark brown spot on centre of dorsum, two rather narrow marks of same colour forming a triangle or open V on posterior joint, back of which is a silvery white band.

Mamestra ascula, n. sp.— Ground colour very pale ashen gray, with a somewhat luteous tinge more or less obvious in most specimens; best marked in the male, most frequently wanting in the female. The ordinary lines are all broken and obscured by the shading, yet all distinctly traceable, geminate, one part of the line blackish, the other smoky and always partly incomplete. Basal line usually marked by a geminate spot on costa. There is a short black basal streak, best marked and a little curved in the female, and above it the basal space tends to be a litter paler.

When I saw Professor Vernon L. Kellogg's new “American Insects” advertised, I determined to posses a copy, which I thought would very naturally give a little more space than “Comstock's Manual” to the Heteroptera, and being a much more recent publication, would be free, with regard to the Waterbugs, from the mistatements and errors of fact of its predecessors and therefore serviceable as a book of reference. Very fortunately (from my point of view), a friendly bookseller allowed me to examine the volume and in consequence I was able to spare myself a useless expense.

Black, the antenn♀, palpi, labella and front corners of the first two abdominal segments pale yellow, the last segment and hind edge of the preceding orange yellow. Front at narrowest part one-fifth as wide as either eye, the upper three pairs of frontal bristles much larger than the others, one pair beneath insertion of antenn♀, facial ridges strongly diverging below antenn♀ slender, almost as long as the face, the third joint five times as long as the second.

About ten years ago (see Can. Ent., Vol. XXXVII, Nos. 7 and 8) I published a list of beetles taken by me on the Queen Charlotte Islands. The beetles enumerated below were, except where otherwise designated, taken on the mainland of British Columbia, on the coast between the mouths of the Naas and Skeena Rivers. Some of them were determined for me through the kindness of Dr. James Fletcher, the Dominion Entomologist, whose valuable help and advice I have now for many years enjoyed; the remaider by Professor H.F. Wickham, of Iowa University, to whose skill and courtesy I am deeply indebted.

Xlina nigrescens. sp. nov.— Two males and one female.

Upper part of head and thorax stone-gray, front of head light brown, surmounted by a well-defined umber brown line beneath base of antennæ. This line is continuous along lower margin of patagiæ and ver contrasting from the gray thorax. The thorax is rather short and square. Thoracic vestiture intermixed with flattenedhair. Thoracic crest slightly raised and defined by a patch of dark brown hair. Collar with a faint line near tip, not contrasting. Palpi are reddish-gray, strongly marked laterally with an umber-brown line outwardly.

It is with much gratification that we announce the formation of the British Columbia Branch of our Society, which has been accomplished by the affiliation with it of the British Columbia Entomological Society. The Rev. G. W. Taylor, of Wellington, is the President, and Mr. R. V. Harvey, the Queen's School, Vancouver, Secretary-Treasurer. Regularly quarterly meetings are held and eighteen members have thus far been enrolled. With such a goodly band of enthusiastic and experienced entomologists the new Branch ought to grow and prosper and do much efficent work for the furtherance of this department of science in the western Province of the Dominion of Canada.

On May 19, 1904, Mr. W. Metcalfe found some green Geometrid larvæ, at Hull, Que., feeding on the common Juniper (Juniperus communis, L). These were handed to the writers, who succeeded in bringing them to maturity. Three of the bred moths were sent to the Rev. G. W. Taylor, of Wellington B.C. for identification.

Heretofore the genus Canocephus, Konow, has been known only from Siberia, and by a single species. Two undescribed species from western Unitd States occur in Dr. Alex D. MacGillvray's collection (Cornell University), one of them also in the collection of the American Entomological Society, and at the request of Dr. MacGillivray I here describe them.

In the case of any circumpolar plant, it is of much interest to learn whether the insects and fungi attacking it are the same in Europe, Asia and America. The Bearberry (Arctostaphylos uvaursi) is already know to have a cocci (Targionia Dearnessi, Ckll.) infesting it, which is only known to occur in America. This T. Dearnessi, however, is not confined to the Arctostaphylos, for Professor L. Bruner sent me specimens which he collected Oct. 24, 1900, at Weeping Water, Nebraska, on Ceanothus Americanus.

During October and November, 1904, I had the pleasure of learning some interesting features of the habits of a certain group of moths which appear at that season of the year. The abundance of these species under seemingly very unfavourable climatic conditions was a great surpise to me. The observations made on these hardy creatures of the insect tribe may prove interesting to Lepidopterists who are willing to exert a bit of energy in the pursuit of their hobby. During the last few years I have learned that we must take the topography of the country into account in selecting a place to bait for the months, which appear after we have observed the first autumn frosts on the landscape.