In an article on the genns Lecanium, Published in the Canadian Entomologist, Vol. 34, p. 177 (1902), I stated that I inferred that Costa proposed generic names for the Coccidæ in his Prospetto di una nuova descrizione metodica del genera Coccus L., work I had not seen at that time, as no copy could be found in the libraries of this country or in London. Mr. Fernald has, however, recently secured a copy of this exceedingly rare work, published in 1828, from Naples, Italy.

Form elongate oval, moderately convex. Colour bright blue-green with slight iridescence, purplish reflections predominant, shining. Antennae and legs rufotestaceous. Thorax and elytra finely but distinctly punctured, distinctly alutaceous.

Feralia Columbiana, n. sp.—Ground colour a bright emerald green, the maculation black and white. Head with a black interantennal spot. Collar with a black patch at its centre and at the base of each primary: tipped with whitish. Behind the collar there is a black edging to the disc and the loose basal tuftings are black marked. The edges of the patagia are black along the disc and at the base of the wings. The thorax itself is small and quadrate, the maculation just described forminga black square in its centre. The abdomen is deep smoky brown,yellowish or whitish at tip. Primaries with all the lines black, prominent, yet fragmentary. Basal line single, accompanied by a few white scales, becoming diffuse at the inner margin. T. a. line single, followed by a white line, out curved as a whole and irregularly bent or curved outwardly in the interspaces.

Brachynemurus Hubbardii, new species.

Male–Length, 46 mm.; expanse of wings, 49.5 mm.; greatest width of anterior wing, 6 mm.; length of antenna, 9 mm. Very slender; yellow, marked with dark fuscous; sparsely hairy, more thickly on abdomen.

Face scarcely convex, yellowish; above, a broad pitchy-black band, notched in middle below, extending around the antennae on outer side; a faint fuscous line extends from centre of notch almost to clypeus; furrow between face and inner orbit of the eye, fuscous. Circumocular area yellowish, except along depressed portion of the vertex, where it is dark fuscous, and below, near maxillary palpiger, where there is a black spot. Clypeus yellowish, with a few coarse black hairs. Labrum transverse rounded laterally and narrowed anteriorly somewhat emarginate in front, yellowish, slightly tinged with rufous, several coarse dark hairs on anterior border. Mandibles piceous, black at tips; on inner edge, near apex, a tooth.

During a recent visit to the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Cambridge, Mass., undertaken primarily for the purpose of studying Chambers' Coleophorid types, I naturally took advantage of the opportunity to examine the numerous types of Geometridae incorporated from the Packard, Swett and Cassino collections. In consequence I was enabled to clear up a number of points which had been worrying me for some time and in the following notes I offer the main results of such studies.

In 1924 (Proc. U. S. N, M. Vo1. 64, Art. 20, pp. 4-6) Cushman reviewed the North American species of Cidaphus pointing out diagnostic characters for the separation of C. paniscoides from two species which he described as new under the names C. occidentalis and C. australis. At that time the only Canadian record for a member of the genus was that of the female type specimen of occidetalis from Revelstroke, B. C. The distribution given for paniscoides, N. H., N. Y., Pa. and Md. indicated that this species also probably would be found to occur in Canada.

Since the publication of the third paper of this series in the Canadian Entomologist for August and September, 1894, my time has been so fully occupied with other duties that but little opportunity has been presented for the collection and study of Indiana Orthoptera. Notes have been made and specimens taken only of such species as came readily to hand during field work in geology. A better knowledge of the distribution over the State of many of the Acrididae has, however, been gained, and seven species and one variety have been added to the number formerly listed, and to my private collection. Of these, one species and variety have been described as new by Prof. A. P. Morse, a second is described for the first time in the present paper, and a third has before been taken only in Montana and Nebraska.

In his recent Revision of the Oecophoridae (1941, Proc. U. S. N. M. Vol. 90, No. 3107) Gates Clarke (p. 196) records the larva of Depressaria betulella Bsk. as feeding on both Betula and Ostrya. As material bred by us from Ostrya this past summer in the Ottawa region did not at all match with our series of the birch-feeder I have made a genitalic study of the species of this group in the Canadian National Collection in order to check up on the matter.

The name Neoligiagen.nov. is proposed for the “Oligia” semicana (Walker) species group in North America and 12 species, N. rubirena sp.nov., N. pagosa sp.nov., N. hardwicki sp.nov., N. inermis sp.nov., N. invenusta sp.nov., N. albirena sp.nov., N. lancea sp.nov., N. elephas sp.nov., N. lillooet sp.nov., N. surdirena sp.nov., N. canadensis sp.nov., and N. atlantica sp.nov. are described. Hadenella laevigata Smith is synonymized (synonymy restored) under Hadena tonsa Grote and Hadena hausta Grote is synonymized (synonymy restored) under Miana semicana Walker. Adults of all species are illustrated as well as male and female genitalia, where known.

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.

Oncocnemis levis, n. s.

Primaries much shaded with black over dusty ochrey. Markings fine, neat, distinct. The lines black, with narrow included dusty ochrey shades. Half-line present. Anterior line with three dentations. Claviform long, reaching to posterior line, having a pale dusty ochre annulus edged outwardly with black, brown interiorly.

On 27 May 1993, a normal, healthy woman in her early 30s put packages of groceries just purchased on the car seat beside her. As she sat in the driver's seat, she “…felt something painful sticking into her behind her knee.” She looked and saw something there, brushed it, but when it did not come off, she grabbed it into a soft tissue paper, and folded the paper over so the animal could not escape. She went immediately for medical assistance.

The second author, a physician, examined the animal and thought it to be a dead spider, as he could not prod it into moving (many clubionids “play dead”). However, when he put it into alcohol, it writhed violently for a few moments before dying. He sent it to the Department of Entomology, University of Alberta. The spider was determined to be a female of Cheiracanthium inclusum (Hentz, 1847), a first record for Alberta, and only the second record for Canada.

Field experiments demonstrated that the western balsam bark beetle, Dryocoetes confusus, responded best to multiple-funnel traps baited with mixtures of (+)- and (−)-exo-brevicomin. (±)-exo-Brevicomin released at 0.8 mg per 24 h performed as well as or better than release rates of from 0.2 to 1.0 mg per 24 h in terms of the number of baited trees which were mass attacked (80%), average attack density, and average number of trees attacked within a 10-m radius of baited trees. Baiting more than one tree in a spot resulted in an intensification of attack on baited trees and increased the number of trees attacked within 10 m of each spot.

Microctonus Agilis.N. sp–♂. Piceous, shining; clypeus and mandibles testaceous; palpi whitish; antennæ longer than head and thorax, slender, fuscous, basal third pale; pleura beneath, rufo-piceous; tegulæ whitish; wings hyaline, iridescent; nervures and stigma fuscous, the latter large, lanceolate; marginal cell longer than stigma, lanceolate; legs, ineluding coxæ, pale honey-yellow, extreme tips of posterior tibiæ dusky; abdomen smooth, shining, depressed, first segment tinged with rufo-piceous, gradually dilated to apex. Length .10 inch.

Two new species, Dialithus scintillons from Cerro Campana, Panama, and Dialithus festivus from Chiapas, Mexico, are described. The description of the formerly monotypic genus Dialithus Parry is slightly altered. Jeannelosis auriculatus Bourgin (1945) is considered a synonym of Pantodinus klugi Burmeister (1847).

The Montreal Branch of the Entomological Society of Ontario, passed its seventy-fifth anniversay on October 16th, but did not hold a special meeting on that date as we had anticipated it at our annual meeting on May 15th and had previously invited the Parent Society to hold their annual meeting in Montreal as a Conunemorative Anniversary Celebration. When our invitation was accepted we were pleased, and we greet you here, and trust you will enjoy meeting with us at the three Institutions that have aided greatly in our pursuit of Entomology, namely, McGill University Université de Montreal and Macdonald College.

Numerical analyses have been carried out on some lepidopteran genera to find the effect of minimizing the number of characters used; the validity of drawing conclusions about the internal structure of a group which formed only a small portion of the analysis as a whole; the effect on numerical classifications when some characters are unknown for some taxa; and the diagnostic value of characters. The add-a-point program has been used to identify and to indicate the phenetic affinities of additional taxa.