Since the last of my “Notes on Some Ontalio Acridiidæ” were printed, five species have been added to the list, and the number of localities for those already recorded has been considerably increased. I think,therefore, that it will make the notes more complete to conclude them with a full list of the species of this family known to occur in the Province, with their distribution as hitherto recorded.

Only a small portion of the territory included in the Province of Ontario has been at all thoroughly explored by entomologists, but I do not believe there are very many native species of Acridiidæ not included in the present list. Doubtless, horvever, some of the Manitoba and Minnesota forms extend into the north-western part of Ontario, while it is extremely probable that there are unrecorded species in the south-west, and possibly a few in the east and extreme north.

Anotia Kirkaldayin.sp.– Form and general appearance of Amalopota Fitchi, but broader and less definitely marked. Form of A. Burnetii, but with a sharp head and blunter elytra. Length, including elytra, 6.5 mm.

Vertex slightly broader than in Burnetii, inclined upward, nearly flat, not rounding over at apex as in that species; elytra broader toward apices than in Burnetii; venation very similar, but with the median nervure not forked beyond the cross-vein, and the first branch of the postcostal nervure coming off close tot he cross-vein and at nearly right angles to the nervure. Costal appendix larger than in Burnetii, obliquely truncate posteriorly.

Bombomelecta Arizonica, n. sp.– ♀. Length about 11 mm., black; head, thorax and legs with dull white hair, having a faint yellowish tinge; black hair on cheeks, lower sides of face, labrum and mandibles; hair of pleura, except its upper part, black; a conspicuous band of black hair between the wings; hair of anterior legs long and black, but the tarsimore or less silvery, and the femora with a conspicuous tuft of white hair near the end behind; middle tibiæ and tarsi largely silvery-white on theouter side, but the white and black pubescence are mixed, so as to produce a speckled effect; hind tibiæ and tarsi similar, except that the tibiæ have the outer apical half black ; tegulæ large, black, punctured; wings pale brownish, nervures piceous; abdomen heart-shaped, with sparse black hair, and conspicuous clear-cut patches of white hair; first segment with a broad band of yellowish-white erect or suberect hairs, interrupted in the middle; first to fifth segements with lateral patches of appressed snow-white hair, that on the second segment broad and deeply notched behind.

1830. Proctotrypides, Family (partim), Leach. Edinb. Ency., IX., p. 145.

1830. Mutillidæ Family (partim), Leach. Opus cit., p. 147.

1839. Cenoptera, Tribe 6, Haliday. Opus cit.

1877. Cenoptera, Tribe 12, Forster. Ueber d. Syst. Werth d. Flugelg., p. 20.

The family was first defined by that astute British systematist, A.H. Haliday, who, as early as 1839, very correctly placed the family among the Fossores.

In 1893 the writer, in his Monograph of the North American Proctotrypidæ, followed the views of Prof. Westwood, and treated these insects as a subfamily in the Proctotrypidæ. Since that time, however, the extensive studies I have made into all families of the Hymenoptera have given me a much broader and more thorough knowledge of the families and their affinities, and I am now convinced that Haliday was right, that these insects are allied to the fossorial wasps, and have nothing to do with genuine Proctotrypoids; they are clearly alied to the Chrysididæ, through the Cleptinæ and Ameriginæ, and to the Sapygidæ, Tihiidæ, Cosilidæ, Thynnidæ, Myrmosidæ and Mutillidæ, –all parasitic families.

In July last I noticed that the leaves of the burdocks on the Heights of Levis were riddled as if from a discharge of small shot. On examination, I found that the damage to the leaves was caused by numerous larvæ of a species of Cassida. The creatures were there in strength, each supporting, by means of the forked prolongation of its anal segment, its “stercoraceous parasol.” Towards the end of the month the grim-looking pupæ were to seen, bristling round their edges with white branched spines, and attached to the leaves by a natural cement. In the present month (August) the beetles have appeared. They are about eight millimetres in length and five millimetres in breadth.

In Supplement No. 1 to his work “Lepidoptera, Rhopaloceres and Heteroceres, Indigenons and Exotic,” dated Sept. 15th, 1898, Dr.Herman Strecker described a species under the above name as follows:

“At first glance might be taken for a small Nitela, but it is a darkr, warmer colour, more towards a rich chestnut. The t.p. is not so conspicuous, and is much more upright, and its course is rather from the costa outwardly oblique than inwardly oblique. One example has the space from the base to t.p. chestnut brown, exteriorly the t.p. is accompanied by a broad, paler ashen shade, beyond which the brown again prevails. In another the whole wing is brown, the t.p. only being discernible on the closest inspection. Beyond what I have mentioned, the differences between this and Nitela, excepting size, are not very marked. Expands one inch. Types, two examples from Chicago, Illinois.”

Herewith I offer descriptions of three new species of dragon-flies of the subfamily Gomphinæ of Odonata. Figures of the appendages of all will appear in my forthcoming handbook of the dragon-flies of North America.

Gromphus lentulus, n. sp.

Colours obscure (due in part to fading of specimen); face obscure yellowish, shining; frons above and occiput and the ridges above the lateral ocelli yellow, the remainder of the vertex brownish. Prothorax brownish, with a double median spot of yellow on the dorsum. Thorax obscure yellowish, with a faint indication of a pair of narrow stripes of brown beside the middorsal carina, and of broader antehumeral and humeral stripes; a brown pale line on the third lateral suture.

We regret to record the death of Mr. R. J. Weith, of Elkhart, Indiana, which took place on Sunday, September 21st after an illness of only two days, from appendicitis. Mr. Weith was born in Prussia, on the 15th of September, 1847. At the age of twenty-five he came to America, and after visiting many f the large cities in the east and south, finally settled at Elkhart, where he lived for about a quarter of a century. For many years be devoted himself to the study of entomology and the collections of insects, especially Hymenoptera, and may notable captures.