A list of carabid beetles of the Magdalen Islands, Quebec is given, which includes 107 species.

In Europe and in New Zealand species of the genus Ripersia have been found, which lived in the nests of certain ants. It had always seemed to me singular that nothing of the kind should occur in this country; but Mr. G. B. King has proved that they merely wanted looking for, his researches in Massachusetts having led to the discovery of three species, here briefly described.

At the time of writing my “Synonymic Notes on Canadian Eupithecias” (1929, “Canadian Entomologist”, lxi, 49) I omitted, through ignorance of the types, any reference to the following two species. Recently through the kindness of Mr. S. Cassino, in whose collection the types are, I have been permitted to study them and make slides of the genitalia with the following results.”

Identified by F. M. Carpenter, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard, Massachusetts.

PANORPIDAE.

I. Panorpa signifer Bks. July 24. G.L.P. Aug. 27. On outside of laboratory.

On July 5th, 1884, several larvæ of this species were handed me by a neighbor, who had found them feeding on Asclepias quadrifolia gorwing in the yard. They were just ready to pass the last moult, evidently leaving the plant for the purpose of moulting; some of them being found on a fence attracted the notice of the person finding them. As found they were .55 of an inch long; body brownish balck, each joint with eight tubercles from which project tufts of hairs. Those from the four dorsal, on joints 2 and 3, are long and black, part of those on joint 4 are white; the posterior three joints also supporting long tufts. The dorsal tufts between these are ochre colored, about a third as long as the anterior or posterior, and bend towards the centre from each side. the lower tufts on the anterior part of the body are gray, the rest balck. Head black.

Discovery of new external structures permit easier separation of species of Phymatocera for both sexes. A key is given and a phylogeny is reconstructed for all species. The name P. rusculla (MacGillivray) is a junior synonym of P. offensa (MacGillivray).

This is one of a series of papers on the insect life of the Big Bend Region of Trans-Pecos, Texas, in which the author plans to present a fairly complete picture of the insect and animal life of that little known region. The area is composed of Presidio and Jeff Davis Counties, the former mainly Lower Sonoran in its faunal affinities, the latter principally Upper Sonoran and partly Transitional. Each county has its own mountain system; Presidio County the Chinati Mountains and Jeff Davis County the Davis Range. The Chinatis are desert mountains; the Davis are forested with oaks and pines.

A single specimen was collected one evening at Las Vegas, at a flower of Gaura coccinea. I then remarked of it: “Face narrower than type; possibly a distinct species.” It seemed strange that it should be visiting the Gaura, but it did not occur to me that I had a genuinely vespertine bee. On June 22, 1903, at Pecos, I was astonished to see a number of bees busily collecting pollen from the flowers of Galpinsia fendleri (a large yellow evening primrose)after sunset, at 7.30 p.m. I collected some, and found that they were my “Halictus amicus, var. a, ” which is evidently a distinct species. It is readily known from H. amicus by the narrower face and more sparsely punctured clypeus.

Among the mosquitoes lately sent from the various Army Stations are the following, of interest mostly because of their apparent close relation to already known forms:

Uranotœnia cœruleocephala, Theob., var. lateralis, n. var.— ♀. Head covered with flat blue scales, becoming white around the eyes, a couple of brown bristles between, and a few around, the eyes, no fork scales; the scales on the occiput change from a dark indigo or violet to a light blue, according to the direction of the light, and when viewed from the side may even seem brown with a wide white border around the eyes, but in other positions are some shade of blue; antenn♀ brown, verticels and pubescence brown, basal joint light testaceous, with a few thin flat scales; palpi also light brown, very short, hardly longer than the depth of the clypeus, the last joint reduced to a knob; proboscis dark brown, swollen at the tip; clypeus testaceous; eyes brown and silver.

Botis oppilalis, n. sp.

♂ ♀. Allied to the feudalis, s-linealis group. Pale ochrey, opaque, powdered with deeper ochre and fuscous scales. Discal dots small, indistinct, orbicular a solid point, reniform an open ring. Lines acutely dentate. Outer line exserted opposite the cell, forming an inward tooth at vein 2, and again another at vein I, on primaries.

Certain mayflies and stoneflies were present in a forest stream in New Brunswick after frequent yearly sprayings with DDT. Tests showed that a stonefly, Nemoura sp., apparently the most likely insect to have developed DDT tolerance, had not done so. Presence of mayflies and stoneflies in the stream was probably because they survived spraying while in the egg stage, or recovered quickly after spraying, or both.

Gynandromorphs have been reported from many orders of insects and especially from those orders in which large numbers of individuals have been collected or reared. It is therefore not surprising that, with the accumulation of large scries, ephemerid gynandromorphs should be found occasionally and it seems advisable to put descriptions of such individuals on record. Needham, Traver, Hsu, etc.

It is necessary for me to correct a serious error into which I have fallen.

At page 165, v. 3, I have described a larva mining the upper surface of leaves of the White Oak (Quercus alba), which seemed to me to answer the requirements of Dr. Clemens' Lithocollctis tubiferella, which also mines the leaves of Quercus alba. The larva was not removed from the mine, but viewed through the integument.

I desire to call the attention of Entomologists to a very valuable contribution to Entomological literature recently made by Lord Walsingham. The work is entitled Pterophoridæ of California and Oregon, and is published in an octavo volume very neatly gotten up, and containing sixty-six pages of letter press, fully illustrated by forty-eight colored figures on three plates. Forty-one species are figured, of which three do not belong to the Pacific fauna as far as known, but are given for convenience of comparison. Twenty-seven new species are described.