Philodromoides, gen. nov.— Cephalothorax low, about as wide as long; head region much narrowed and slightly elevated. Abdoment fully twice as long as wide; the base projects a short distance over the cephalothrox, and is distinctly notched on the upper side. The sternum and labium are about as in Philodromus. All eyes approximately equal in size; the anterior row much the shorter and slightly recurved; median eyes of this row farther from each other than from the side eyes.

From Science we learn that the following Entomological appointments have been recently made:

Mr. S. I. Kuwana, M. S. (Leland-Standord University), has been appointed Entomologist at the Central Agricultural Experimental Station, Nishigahara, Tokyo, Japan. His special studies have been devoted to scale insects, and he has monographed the Japanese Coccidæ, so far as the species are at present known.

When I was working on the Haploas, previous to the publication of my paper on “The North American Callimorphas” (Can. Ent., XIX, 181–191), I appealed to Mr. A. G. Butler for information in regard to Walker's types, and he very kindly sent me sketches of the types of Contigua and Confinis as then standing in the British Museum collection, but as what was shown as the former was practically the same as the latter, I wrote that I thought there must be some mistake, and sent a drawing of what we, in this country, understood to be Contigua. Mr. Butler, in replying, said I was quite right, and that Mr. Walker, with his usual carelessness, had got the Contigua label on the wrong specimen, and thanked me for calling his attention to the error, which he had corrected.

1. O. binotata, Loew.

Chicago, Ill. (July); Austin, Tex. (May); Colo.

2. O. cincta, Olivies.

Chicago and Algonquin, Ill. (June).

3. O. dorsalis, Fabricius.

Hayti

4. O. arcuata, Loew

Chicago, Ill, (July); Colo.

5. O. nigrirostris, Loew.

Chicago, Ill.; Austin, Tex.; Colo.; Lusk, Wyom. (August).

Through the courtsey of Dr. Harrison G.Dyar I have had the privilege of examining and assisting in the identification of all the specimens of the family Tortricidœ collected and bred by him and his assistants during the past summer at and in the vicinity of Kaslo, B.C. A completed list of all species will be included in Dr. Dyar's comprehensive paper on his summer's work, which is in course of preparation. All of the species that appear to be unknown are described in the following paper. Prof. C.H. Fernald has very kindly read over the MSS and examined the types, and confirmed my generic determiantions, and in the case of one species made a correction, for all of which I am glad to acknowledge my obligation.

The Broad-leaved Aster (Aster macrophyllus, L.) grows in patches of considerable size in the woods around Levis. In the month of June, 1902, I noticed that many of the large ground leaves of the plant were folded over from both sides and crinckled. On opening one of them I found that a larva had truned the leaf into a cool and pleasant tent for itself, and was feeding upon the parenchyma of the leaf.

Proteoptervx Willingana, sp. nov.

♂, 18 mm. Head, thorax, palpi, antennæ and fore wings, same shade of very light tan or pale brownish-fuscous, overlaid with a few blackish brown scales.

Palpi: outer joint short, obtusely pointed; tuft on second joint flattened and appressed, lower scales extending to outer end of outer joint. Head roughtly scaled. Eyes black with coppery reflection. Antennæ annulated with fuscous and brown. Thorax smooth.

Within the last few years three books have taken their place in the scientific literature of this country that should make a great advance in the study of natural history in our high schools. The first was “The Butterfly Book,” by Dr. W. J. Holland; the second, “The Insect Book,” by Dr. L. O. Howard, and the third, recently out, “The Moth Book,” by the author of the first. The cheapness of these three volumes places them within the means of any high school that makes any pretense to having a reference library, while the excellent plates, photographed from the specimens, make them of great value to the young who desire means for identifying their captives.

Catocala obscura, Strecker. — Larvæ taken under hickory bark. Foodplant hickory. Described June 1st, 1903.

General colour, gray with pale brown and black markings.

No transverse band and no elevation of eighth segment.

Head broad as first segment, flattened, gray, with a black dash on each cheek, extending from mouth two-thirds of the way to top of head, and ending in a point.

Tubercles white, but not prominent; the dorsal tubercles being in a brownish stripe that is fairly distinct the entire length.

Mr. F.L. Washburn, State Entomologist of Minnesota, reports the occurence at St. Anthony Park of the imported Alder and Willow Beetle, Cryptorhyncus lapathi, Linn., which was introduced in a shipment of Carolina poplars from the State of New York last spring.

In order to avoid needless repetition, I wish here to express my sincere thanks to Prof. John B. Smith and Dr. H. G. Dyar for numerous favours, and also to Mr. O. C. Poling for his great liberality in furnishing me with many of the species here described. Mr. Poling has made a number of collecting trips to little known parts of Arizona and Utah, and in addition to many new species has turned up many rare forms discovered years ago by Morrison and Doll. The fauna of Southern Arizona is essentially Mexican, and as there is at present no collection of Mexican Lepidoptera in this country worth mentioning, one in describing apparently new species from that region is certain to make synonyms.

On page 351 of this magazine Professor Cockerell notes his observation of the Pogonomyrmex occidentalis at Ruleton, within twelve miles of the western limit of Kansas, and considers this as the indication of the eastern limit or beginning of the arid region. Our investigations of the range of this large ant in Kansas have shown us that its eastern limit is found far to the east of the point mentioned. The species occurs as far east in this State as the Sixth Principal Meridian, or in the counties of Republic, Ottawa, McPherson and Sedgwick, on a line about two-fifths of the length of the State from the eastern border. One would scarcely be acquainted with climatic conditions in Kansas who should consider this ant as a mark of the “arid region,” as west of the line indicated are found some of the best farming lands of the State. Especially is this true of the wheat lands, as the counties named are among those famous for the production of this cereal. Notwithstanding its occasional occurrence along the extreme eastern limit above indicated, the favoured home of the species is really within the western hundred miles of the State, and thence west to the mountains, where in specially suitable localities it sometimes occurs in astonishing abundance.

Dryinus nigrellus, sp. nov.—Femal. Length 4.25mm. Wholly black, except tarsi, part of antennæ and mandibles. Head black, finely rugulose, faintly silvery pubescent and sub-shining. Vertex impressed; front wiht a short median impressed groove above the antennæ. Cheeks roughened; mandibles pale yellow, with the tip of the teeth black' quadridentate, the outer tooth the larger and the inner one extremely minute; palpi black.

Chrysops fulvistigma, n. sp—Female. Palpi yellowish, antennæ slender, first segment yellowish, slightly darker at apex, second and third segments brown, annulate portion nearly black. Face shining black, covered next the eyes and on the anterior parts of the cheeks with yellowish-gray pollen. Front yellowish-gray pollinose, callosity and region surronding the ocelli, shining black. Thorax dark, nearly black, with grayish pollen above, giving the impression of stripes before the suture; coxa, basal two-thirds of femur and base of tibia of anterior leg, and nearly the whole tibia and base of tarsus of middle leg, yellow; remainder of legs dark, nearly black. Wing alomost hyaline, costal margin from base to apex, and a narrow cross-band abbreviated behind pale brownish, stigma conspicuously brownish-yellow.

In Lycosa there is in most cases present a small, apically more or less rounded flap or lobe at and pressing against the base of origin of the embolus. This lobe, which may be spoken of as the palea, is often small or but weakly developed; but in L. pulchara it is very long and conspicuous. Here it embraces and supports the embolus along much of its length, being at the same time shifted ectad from its usual position. This special development of the supporting palea in L. pulchra is associated with the pecuilar position of the embolus, which instead of curving back to rest along the lectus in the ususal manner, here arches foward and outward (i. e., ventrad) free from the bulb, only its apical part, which turns forward and rests obliquely across the auricula, being at all in contact with the lectus.