All of the Hymenoptera described in this paper were received from Father W. A. Stanton, Who captured them in the Observatory Garden at Manila, P. I.

Family X.—Stelididæ Cœlioxys, Latr.

œiCœlioxys Manilœ, new species.—♀. Length 6.5mm. Black; the cheeks, temples, clypeus and the fae upwards to the front ocellus, the mesopleura, sternum, coxæ, metathorax, and the apical margins of the ventral and dorsal abdominal segments, clothed, rather densely, with a whitish pubescence, sometimes tinged with yellow; there are also triangular spots of a yellowish pubescence on the anterior and posterior margins of the mesonotum and on the base of the scutellum; the head and thorax are rather coarsely, closely punctured, opaque, while the abdomen is shining, although distinctly punctate, the puncutures sparse and separated; the pygidium is bi-impressed at apex with a short median carina separating the impressions, the punctures being coarser and closer in the impressions or towards apex; the mandibles medially and the legs are red, the femora beneath and the tibiæ outwardly being clothed with a short, fine, dense, whitish pubescence.

Brief preliminary descriptions of the following species are given in order that the names may be used in another palce.

Lycosa permunda, sp. nov.— ♀. Cephalothorax dark brown; a pale narrow median line extending backward from first eye now, widening abruptly in front of dorsal groove, and then gradually narrowing to a point at posterior margin; a broad light-coloured marginal stripe on each side not extending forward farther than the third eye row, its upper margin coarsely dentate, the lower border broken by a few dark dots, but not limited below by a continuous dark line or stripe at margin.

Dasyllis cinerea, sp. nov.—Black, shining, with slight bluish reflection; head thorax, tip of abdomen, and legs with cinereous hair and pile. Length, 12–15 mm.

♂ ♀. —Head black, fae cinereous pollinose, mystax and vibrissæ long, composed of moderately-dense cinereous hair, with the exception of a few black ones for the most part confined to the orla margin, but sometimes extending up on the facial gibbosity; ocellular tubercle prominent with black hair; occipito-orbital hairs fine, black and gray, the letter predominating; beard dense, silky, of same gray colour; palpi small, black-haired; antennæ black, first two segments with black and gray hairs.

The ill wind that blows insects into a lake may blow the entomologist some good if he be on hand to collect them when they are cast upon the beach. During recent years I have gathered much material for class use from the drift line upon the beach at Lake Forest, with great economy of time and labour. After every on-shore breeze following sunshiny summer weather some insects are cast up by the waves, and occasionally there is a great accumulation of them. Twice I have observed accumulations of them quite out of the ordinary; the first time, in August, 1899, when the drift was predominantly crickets of a single species (Nemobius fasciatus)*, and a second time in June, 1904, when it was predominantly May beetles of a single species(Lachnosterna fusca). It is the purpose of this paper to record some observations on this occurrence.

Among the new genera lately separated by Theobald from Ædes and Uranotœnia, the differences seem at times puzzling, and without an opportunity to study the types, it is not always easy to feel sure of the position of a new insect. It is also to be noted that in some of these genera the male is unknown, and it may possibly happen that they belong to the class having long palpi in the male. This is very definitely suggested by a mosquito received recently from Bayamban, Pangasinan, P.I., which, while having long palpi in the male, flat scales (no curved ones) on the head, curved scales only on the scutellum, still has the wing characteristics of Uranotœnia.

Spending the summer in England, I have, of course, hastened to examine the types of F. Srnith, and other bees contained in the collection of the British Museum. The following notes elucidate some species which had puzzled American entomologists, who had access only to the descriptions:

Chelostomoides rugifrons (Smith)

Chelostoma rugifrons, Sm., type ♀.—Would be large for Chelostoma; a transverse ridge, with large punctures, below the antennæ, and below this a smooth shining impunctate depressed area, bounded on each side by a vertical ridge, so that one gets the impression at first that the clypeus is very broadly and deeply emarginate; the long labrum, seen from above, looks like the end of an elephant's trunk, being broadened at the end, and presenting a median elevation; the “tooth near the base within” of the mandibles is a shining tubercle; the recurrrent nervures join second submarginal cell at about distances from its base and apex respectively; the basal nervure just falils to reach transverso-medical; claws broad and angled basally, but not cleft; no pulvillus (Chelostoma florisomne has a large pulvillus); first abdominal segment with a distinctly margined though shallow concavity.

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.

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.