These two families immediately follow the Coccinellidæ in our lists, and are evidently related to them in many respects, the former, perhaps, the more closely, especially in tarsal strucutre. In habits there are, however, wide differences, the Coccinellidæ, as a already stated in a former paper, being chiefly aphidivorous, while the Endomychidæ and Erotylidæ are mostly fungivorous.

Almost all of the members of the subfamily Ethopolyinae occur in western North America, a few Pacific islands, the Orient and Europe, but only one established species had been known from North America east of the Rocky Mountains. This widespread and very common form, Bothropolys multidentatus (Newport), ranges throughout the East as far west as Missouri. The present new species is therefore of special interest in that it is the second endemic member of the subfamily to he recorded from east of the Rockies. The only other members of Zygethopolys, a genus closely allied to Bothropolys, are known only from Alaska, British Columbia, and thk state of Washington.

My first work with the comrnon mantid, Stagmomantis carolina John began accidentally. One afternoon in early May, at Dallas, Texas, a number of egg masses of the mantid were placed on my desk for inspection. In looking them over I noticed that several had been parasitized and that in others the nymphs had already emerged. I paid very little attention to the unhatched eggs. The next morning May 7, 1927, my desk was covered with numbers of ungainly little brownish green creatures that raced madly about and made frantic efforts to hide behind books and papers. Thirty of these mantid nymphs were captured and placed under a glass lantern globe. A week later a second egg mass hatched. These two broods, together with a stray nymph I found, furnished me with material for observations throughout the summer.

A new genus and species, Playaspalangia rothi, is described from Sonora, Mexico, in the intertidal zone of algae-covered rocks.

The description of a new species of Phytodietus, subgenus Neuchorus, is presented. A closely related species is transferred to Neuchorus, also, and a key is provided to separate the two.

1. Banchus Flavescens.— ♂ . Pale yellow ; a bilobed mark behind antennæ, extending between them downward upon middle of face, band across vertex from eye to eye, covering ocelli, posterior margin of occiput, maxillary palpi, two apical joints of labial palpi, antennæ above, stripe on middle of mesothorax. dilated anteriorly, a stripe on each side over the wings, basal suture of scutellum, base of metathorax, broader laterally, spot on each side of pleura posteriorly, posterior coxæ within, their femora beneath, apex of their tibiæ and a broad band at base of four basal segments of abdomen, black; antennæ longer than body, slender at tips ; scutellum with an acute dusky spine ; wings hyaline, faintly yellowish, nervures brown, stigma and costa pale honey-yellow; posterior coxæ and femora stained with ferruginous; abdomen shining, short, apex broad, truncate and compressed. Length five lines.

[Some little time ago Mr. Chambers sent us a specimen of the insect referred to in the following communication, and desired our opinion respecting its specific position. Being unable to give any definite opinion on the matter, as we know but little of the Micro-Lepidoptera, we sent his note and specimen to Mr. Stainton, the great English authority on the Tineina. He very kindly examined the specimen, and communicated his views respecting it, through us, as noticed below.—Ed. C. E.]

The tachinid genus Macromya (type, depressa R.-D.) as here considered includes five species of which three are described as new. All members are quite similar in external adult morphology as well as in biology. In the accompanying key to the currently known species, the distinctions are made chiefly on basic color differences. The center of maximum population for the genus occurs in the neotropics; its range however extends well within the southern limits of the nearctic region.

The Locustidæ (Tettigonidæ Rehn), comprise the long-horned or green grasshoppers, katydids and camel or stone crickets. They have for the most part of southern distribution, and hence are but poorly represented in Ontario, except in the south-western part, to which the majority of the species are confined.

Cucullia oribac, n. sp.—General type of maculation like agua, differing, however, in important particulars; moreover, it seems to be of a less stumpy, stocky build, the wings being longer in proption to their width and the abdomen considerably longer. It is quite possible that it may be but a variety of agua, and were it not for the fact that the species of Cucullia, as a rule, run quite true to type I should hesitate to describe it.

During studies of the parasite complex of the diamondback moth, Plutella maculipennis Curt., at Ottawa, Ontario, July to October, 1952, and April, 1953, 1,234 host cocoons were collected from a heavily infested field of Penn State Ballhead cabbage. On October 31, eight adults (2 ♂ and 6 ♀) of Tetrastichus sokolowskii Kurdj., emerged from a single cocoon collected 16 days previously and held under laboratory conditions in a gelatin capsule. On May 10, nine adults (1 ♂ and 8 ♀) and on May 15, eight adults (1 ♂ and 7 ♀) of the same species emerged from two overwintered cocoons collected 14 and 16 days previously. In each case, the lack of parasitic remnants indicated that they were primary parasites.

In the original description of this insect, * Dr.Riley says that on account of its uniform pale yellow colour it is easily distinguished from Trichogramma minutum, Riley, which is black. Unfortunately, this does not hold.† Out of the hundreds of specimens of pretiosa reared during the enire season of 1904, at Paris, Texas, from the eggs of Heliothis obsoleta, Fabricius, there appeared from a lot of host eggs on Sept. 20th a number of dark individuals, which could easily have been mistaken for a distinct species.

Emergence of apple maggot adults, Rhagoletis pomonella Walsh, under field conditions at Guelph, Ontario, revealed that most maggots emerged from the apples between 2 July and 11 August. However, 12 of 673 emerged benveen 17 August and 16 September. Because this extended period of maggot emergence creates problems in visual certification of maggot-free export fruit, attempts were made to find a more effective trapping method than the use of bait pails for appraising maggot infestations.

The lateness of the hour will prevent my taking time to add to Professor Baker's admirable history many personal recollections of the founders of the Society and of its early activities. Dr. W. E. Saunders, the secretary for a number of years, and I belong to the second generation of active members; however for a period of fifteen or more years we were associated with the pioneers who well and truly laid the foundation of the Society.

The occurrence of Bursaphelenchus xylophilus (Steiner and Buhrer) (Nematoda: Aphelenchida: Parasitaphelenchidae) (pinewood nematode) in Canada prevents export of wood products, including Christmas trees (Pinaceae), to Europe. A nationwide survey in 1992 extracted B. xylophilus from mature, dead, or dying balsam fir (Abies balsamea (Linnaeus) Miller; Pinaceae), but not young, healthy Christmas trees. Three species known to harbour B. xylophilus are found in Nova Scotia, but incidence of B. xylophilus within these species is unknown. Monochamus Dejean (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) species were collected from nine and 20 sites, in 2014 and 2015, respectively, using panel traps baited with a Monochamus lure and evaluated for the presence of pinewood nematode using molecular methods after DNA isolation. Beetles were processed for DNA isolation individually in 2014 and in batches (same species and sex from same collection site and date) in 2015. Bursaphelenchus xylophilus was recovered from all three Monochamus species (M. marmorator Kirby, M. notatus (Drury), and M. scutellatus (Say)) captured in Nova Scotia Christmas tree plantations. Percentage of beetles harbouring B. xylophilus varied with species and sex. Fourteen beetle samples were selected and sent for polymerase chain reaction sequencing. Sequencing results indicated that Bursaphelenchus xylophilus found in Nova Scotia are most similar to isolates from Canada (New Brunswick and Québec), the United States of America, and China.

Can there be two Antispila miners of the Dog-wood? Either there must be, and my specimens are specifically distinct from this species, or Dr. Clements' description is strangely erroneous in at least one particular, viz., the color of the fascia and streaks, which he says are golden in cornifoleilla, but which are silvery white in my specimens, all of which six in number–agree exactly in ornamentation, and all but one of which are bred specimens. The species of the genus generally resemble each other very closely, and some recognized species do not differ from each other more than my specimens do from Dr. Clemens' description.