The name cow grasshopper has been chosen for this insect because of the habit of the female in selecting cattle “chips” or dung in which to place her eggs. On account of this habit, cattle have become an important factor in the spread and perpetuation of the grasshopper and to associate it with the name of its unconscious benefactor seems appropriate.

My last paper on the Coleoptera of Florida mas prepared in the autumn of 1927, and published in the Canadian Entomologist for March, 1928. I spent the winter of 1927-28 in California and did not return to Florida until November, 1928. During the winter of 1928-29 circumstances were such that I did little collecting, and that only about Dunedin, until March, when I made a visit to Gainesville, Fla.

A milky-white species, sometimes tinged with yellow, with four red stripes on elytra. Allied to D. cruentata. Length 2.75-3 mm.

In early June of the summer of 1928 an immature nymph of the genus Cinygma was dredged from tlie sedges along the edge of a mill pond at Horning's Mills, Ontario. All attempts to get more material here were unsuccessful. Next year, however, on June 7, I met with some full-grown nymphs in a deep rock-pool by the edge of a stream which flows into Lake Nipissing, Ontario from the south. About fifteen individuals were reared between the 10th and the 20th of June and the species proved to be Cinygma bipunctata McD. The description of the type fits these individuals very well.

At the session of the forest-entomological section of the International Congress of Forest Experiment Stations held at Stockholm in July 1929, Dr. P. Spessivtseff, Experimentalfaltet, Sweden, proposed the forming of an International Society of Ipidologists.