The life history of Brenthis montinus has long been a problem taxing the ingenuity of lepidopterists. Scudder made repeated efforts to secure the egg but never observed a female ovipositing. The egg figured in “The Butterflies of the Eastern United States” (Vol. 3, plate 64 f.38 and plate 67 f.16) was removed from the body of the ♀ (1863 Bost. Journ. Nat. History VII: 626; see also 1874 Geology of New Hampshire 339, 354).

Ascogaster carpocapsae Vier. was not known to have spread naturally over the mountain barriers into the apple growing districts of British Columbia, and it was considered that the introduction of this species might aid in the control of the codling moth (Cydia pomonella Linn.) which has become a serious pest in that area during recent years.

Following are some additions and corrections to my arrangement of our species of Eanus (1930, Can. Ent. LXII. 161). Diacanthus parvicollis Mann (1853, Bull. Moscou XXVI, 230, from the Kenai peninsula of Alaska, is undoubtedly the male of decoratus Mann. As pointed out by Mr. Fall (1934, Jour. N. Y. Ent. SOC. XLII, 36), subarcticus Brown is a synonym of estriatus Lec.

Types of the following new species of Cicadellidae are in the Snow Entomological Collection, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas.

Hebecephalus hilaris n. sp.

Resembling H. crassus (DeL.) but head more roundingly blunt, female last ventral segment with median lobes sharp instead of rounded, and male style with foot distinctly boot-shaped. Length 3.25 mm.

Color. Cinereous with fuscous markings. Vertex with typical three pairs of spots. Pronotum and scutellum more or less irrorate with brown. Veins of elytra light more or less regularly margined with brown. Venter more or less infuscated.

Through the courtesy of the authorities of the American Museum of Natural History I have been enabled recently to make slides of the genitalia of a number of Pearsall's types of Eupithecia, contained in their collections, and also to examine slides of type material made by Mr. S. Cassino. The following- new synonymy is based on a careful study of this slide material and a comparison with numerous slides and figures of the genitalia of type material of other authors before me. It continues illy work on this genus contained in several papers published in the Canadian Entonlolcgist in 1929-1932.

Say's grain bug, Chlorochroa sayi Stal, made its initial appearance in Alberta, in appreciable numbers, during the season of 1935. The history of the recorded damage by this insect is available in the publication by Caffrey and Barber (U. S. D. A. Bul. 779). This publication is the only adequate treatise to date on this pest of economic grains. The first recorded damage was reported by farmers from Gila and Salt River Valleys of Arizona in 1903. Further outbreaks were recorded in the southern states of New Mexico, Arizona, Texas and Colorado, reaching the peak of depredation during the period, 1915 to 1919. Its first occurrence in Montana was noted during the years 1931 and 1932. where it has been causing considerable losses to the farmers in the northern part of that state ever since. Localized outbreaks were reported in Utah during this same period.