Among the Basilodes there are three closely allied species of very similar pattern, the fore wings being mainly solid metallic golden. These are territans, Hy. Edw., Howardi, Hy. Edw., and Arizonae, French; Howardi and Arizonae having been described as Plusias. The most casual examination of the front of Howardi separates it structurally from Plusia and places it with Basilodes. Arizonae I have not seen, the only specimen known to me being the “type” in the collection of Prof. French, I, however, sent a male and female of territans to Prof. French for comparison with his “type,” thinking that Edwards might have redescribed French's species. From Prof. French's reply, together with a photograph of the type which he kindly had made for me, I have little doubt that his species is a Basilodes, unless, indeed, it may belong to an allied, underscribed genus of which I have to write.

In Entomological News, Vol. IX., pp. 95–96, Mr. T.D.A. Cockerell states that Mr. Alexander Craw, quarantine officer at San Francisco, California, had “two or three times” found Aspidiotus perniciosus on trees from Japan, and notably, on a plum tree that arrived January 25th, 1898.

The Swedish entomologist, C. G. Thomson, first separated this family as a tribe in 1871. It had been placed previously with the Lydides, with which it had no affinity whatever. In the structure of the head, thorax and abdomen the species approach closest to the Hylotomidae, Perreyiidae and the Pterygophoridae. The multiarticulate antennae, however, separate them at once from the former; the distinct anal cell in the hind wings separates them from the Perreyiidae, which have none; while from the last, to which they are undoubtedly most closely allied, they are readily distinguished by having a distinct lanceolate cell in the front wings.

Among a large number of Orthoptera taken by muyself during a trip ot the Pacific Coast by the Canadian Pacific Railway there is one species belonging to the Melanopli which I was unable to determine from Scudder's “Revision” of the group, and could not even satisfy myself as to its generic place. I therefore sent a pair to Mr. Scudder, who informed me that it was a new species of Asemoplus, but that a change would be necessary in the description of that genus as given in his “Revision of the Melanopli” in order to receive my species. I had noticed the resemblance to Asemoplus in the extremity of the male abdomen, but the total absence of tegmina and other points of dissimilarity caused my uncertainty regarding its true generic position.

For many years past, those most interesting of Hymenopterous insects—the Horntails and Sawflies — have received the closest study by some of the ablest Hymenopterists of the world. Cresson and Norton, in America; Newman, Westwood, Kirby, and Cameron, in England; Klug, Hartig, and Konow, in Germany; Lepeletier and Andrè, in France; and Thompson, in Sweden, have all contributed much to our knowledge of these insects, and made decided improvements in their classification.

In figure 6 of the accompanying plate we hav a fair representation of a most interesting aberration of Vanessa Antiopa. This differs from the normal form in the most striking manner, all yellow of the border and the yellow markings on the cost at above being repalced by deep brown. Below, the border and the few yellow marking of the normal form are of a very smoky hue, though by no means as dark as above.

The Ambrosia beetles of the Scolytid genus Xyleborus present many features of interest to the student of systematic and economic entomology, and in Xyleborus xylographus we find a cosmopolitan species of unusual interest.

Brachynemurus brunneus, new species.

Male.—Length, 40 mm.; expanse of wings, 55.4 mm.; greatest width of anterior wing, 6.4 mm.; length of antenna, 7 mm. Slender, prevailing colour fuscous, markings luteous; sparsely clothed with black and white hairs, more thickly so on abdomen.

Face scarcely convex; lower part luteous; covered above by a broad piceous band which encircles the antennæ furrow between face and inner orbit of the eye fuscous. Circumocular area luteous, except along vertex, where it is mostly dark fuscous, and near the maxillary palpiger, where there is a fuscous spot. Clypeus luteous, rather short. Labrum transverse, luteous; rounded laterally and narrowed anteriorly emarginate in front. Mandibles piceous, black at tips.

After the removal of the Strongylogasterinœ, which, to a certain extent, from a connecting link between this family and the Tenthredinidæ, but which, on account of their elongate shape and their cephalic and abdominal characteristics, I have placed with the latter family rather than retain here, there need be no difficulty in separating the Selandriidœ from all the other families by the characters made use of in my table.

In Canad. Entom., 1897, p. 290, I referred the Calliopsis clypeatus, Cresson, to Panurginus. I had considered it probable that Panurgus clypeatus, Eversmann, 1852, was really a Panurginus, but not sufficiently sure to venture upon changing the name of our insect.

This genus will have to be transferred to the Noctuidæ.

Larva cylindrical feet normal on joints 7–10, 13, about equally developed. Tubercles minute, setæ long, fine, iv. opposite the lower edge of the spiracle, a little nearer to v. than to iii., and rather far behind the spiracle; setæ single, several on the smooth leg plates. Segments obscurely 5-annulate. All green; spiracles small, brown; no marks; cervical shield and anal plate uncornified, invisible. (Head broken off.) Feeds on “hockelberry” (Vaccinium?).

Aphycus Howardi, n. sp.—♀. Length about 1 mm.; entirely bright scarlet, except the brown antennal club, sage-green eyes, and white tarsi; with the apical portion dusky. Wings dull hyaline, with a dark clud ending at stigmal vein, whitish just beyond and hyaline at tip. Scape not dilated, club about or almost as long as the four joints before it. Mesonotum and scutellum with numerous short white hairs, mesonotum with no naked spots; mesopleura very delicately shagreened, with no longitudinal impressions.

The genera of the same regions are included in the present paper as in a former one on Hypogymnidæ (Can. Ent., XXIX., 12). The palæarctic Lachneids of the old world have been admirably treated by Aurivillius (Iris, Dresden, vii., 121–185), and I am indebted to his work for valuable information, as well as to the works of Kirby and Hampson. In going over the literature I did not always confirm Kirby's types of the genera; but rather than disturb the matter again, I have accepted them as modified by Aurivillius; but with the restoration of Hübner's Tentamen names, I drop Gastropacha, as it is a synonym of Lasiocampa, being proposed in the same sense to include all the species of the family. Following Wallengren, I separate catax and rimicola from Eriogaster as defined by Aurivillius for convenience in the table, though I do not doubt that the venation is as variable as Aurivillius states (Iris, vii., 147). I cannot separate the new genus Paralebeda, Auriv., from Odonestis by anything that is stated.

Chelynia rubifloris, n. sp.—♀. Eight mm. long, black, with sparse grayish and white pubescence. Head almost as large as thorax, quadrate, produced behind the eyes, checks very broad; cheeks, vertex and face very strongly and closely punctured; region of antennae with some dull white hair; ocelli in a triangle; antennae rather short, black, last joint compressed, funicle longer than first flagellar joint, first flagellar joint conspicuously longer than second or third; clypeus broad and low, punctured all over, its anterior margin bearing a small tooth at each side, and in the middle a long, narrow projection, like the thoracic spine of some species of Oxybelus. Mandibles black, stout, obscurely bidentaie at the obliquely truncate ends. Labrum greatly produced, hollowed beneath, sides parallel, end truncate. Tongue very long, linear; maxillae greatly elongated; penultimate jount of labila palpi boradened at apex, shorter than the last; basal joint not quite half, but more than one-third, length of second; maxillary palpi small, three-jointed, the joints subequal. Thorax rather small, strongly and closely punctured; base of metathorax coarsely wrinkled, bounded by an obtuse rim. Tegulae black, punctured. Wings smoky, nervures and stigma black, stigma well-fromed but small; marginal cell long, with an obtuse apex away from costa; two submarginal cells, second receiving first recurrent nervure at a distance from base nearly equal to length of first recurrent nervure at a distance form base nearly equal to length of first transverso-cubital nervure, and second recurrent very near the apex. Legs baack, with thin whitish pubscence. Abdomen punctured, with obsure silvery pile towards the end; hind margins of segments with white hair-bands, very broadly interrupted on the first three segments, on the first reduced to lateral patches. Venter with a fairly abundant white scopa.

Podalirius phenax, n. sp.—♂. Length about 9 mm.; appearance of P. maculifrons (cress.), with the same white pubescence (mixed with black on hind part of mesothorax and front part of scutellum), the same clear wings (but the second submarginal cell is less narrowed above), and the same legs, except that the tarsi are wholly dark. The black antennæ are considerably longer, when the head is thrown back they reach to postscutellum; scape with a broad white stripe; first joint of flagellum a little shorter than third. Eyes a beautiful dark lavender or gray-blue, instead of green. Clypeus (except the narrow black anterior edge) a transverse supraclypeal band, lateral face-marks (triangular, with the upper side deeply excavated), labrum (except the usual pair of spots), and large patch on mandibles, pure white, shining, like porcelain. Abdominal bands more or less interrupted in the middle; first segment without a band; apex with two spines.

In January of this year Mr. A. H. Kirkland sent me specimens of a scale insect he had taken from Prunus mume at the Arnold Arboretum, Jamaica Plain, Mass., which on examination proved to be Diaspis amygdali, Tryon. A little later Mr. Kirkland sent me more specimens which he had taken from Prunus subhirtella at the Arboretum. Specimens of the scale were sent to Dr. L. O. Howard, who confirmed my identification, stating also that he had asked Mr. Coquillett to examine the specimens and had received the report that he could find no difference between them and Diaspis amygdali. The infested trees came from Japan, the Prunus mume in the spring of 1894 and the Prunus subhirtella in the spring of 1897.