The genus Incisalia was proposed by Minot in 1872, to separate from the unwieldy genus Thecla thos small butteflies which, on a basis of general similarity of structure in teh imago, seemed to be most intimately related to Hübner's niphon, which stands as the type.

While collecting at Brownwood, Texas, in the latter part of May, 1904, I secured half a dozen three- and four-inch sections of a Mesquite tree, about three inches in diameter, that had been cleared from land the preceding fall. The sections were infested with Coleopterous larv♀, and were put into a breeding box to see what would develop. The first transformation into imagoes was in July, when a small Ptinid, Trogoxylon Californicum, Lec., began to emerge in numbers.

40. Cordulegaster maculatus, Selys.—Port Sidney, 1897 (W. Brodie). Also reported from Ontario by Hagen.

41. Cordulegaster diastatops, Selys.—Port Sidny, June 17, 1896 (W. Brodie).

Scaphoideus Anneœ, sp. nov.—Different from all the other species of Scaphoideus known to me, by the presence of only one median subapical cell in the tegmina, instead of two: the subcostal (marginal) cell widens apically, the outer branch of the raidal vein being continuous up to the apex of the tegmen, not ending at the base of teh subapical cells as in the other species. The interolateral margins of the eyes are straight, diverging very slightly towards the dorsal apex, and the posterior margin of the pronotum is a little more emarginate.

Many of our younger members are now for the first time forming a collection of insects. They ar filled with delightful enthusiasm, and almost everthing is a prize that comes within reach of their nets. Butterflies and beetles are usually the first to attract attention and to become the most conspicuous features in the incipient collection. Not many of the former are yet on the wing, but an almost endless variety of beetles may be found by careful search, aided by sharp eyes and nimble fingers. It is the object of this paper to draw attention to some of the more conspicuous species.

Bombus iridis phaceliœ, n. var.—♀. Hair of face black, with a little pale intermixed; yellow hair of thorax in front dense, not at all mixed with black; yellow of scutellum neither divided nor mixed with black; hair on inner side of basal joints of tarsi dark; hair on second and third abdominal segments entirely deep red (much less dense, and not nearly so bright as in B. ternarius), but second with a large bare median triangle; hair of fourth segment and sides of fifth yellow.

During the summer and autumn of 1905 severall small collections of mosquitoes were sent to me by Major Hassard, of the Royal Army Medical Corps, and Colonel Loscombe, from the Military Station at Newcastle, alt 4,000 feet, and more recently a number of living larvæ from the same locality, collected by Miss. Maclaverty.

Æthilla Buffumi, sp. nov.—Habitat: Suapure, Venezuela. Expanse, 1.25 inches.

Head and palpi above dark brown, with a few gray hairs; below nearly white. Thorax and abdomen the same above as head; below gray. Antennæ nearly black, with indistinct white annulations at base of each joint. Club, above black, beneath grayish. Legs light brown, with slight white annulations at joints.

In a recent paper on the “Lepidoptera of teh Kootenai District” (page 910), Dr. H.G. Dyar remarks of this species: “No specimens; one from Mr. Cockle's collection. The speciment agrees with two in the National Museum, bearing Dr. Packard's original labels, ‘Boarmia indictaraia, Comp., Walker's type,’ and ‘Boarmia umbrosaria, Hbn., B. gnophosaria, Gn,’ the specimens orginally coming from the Meske and Riley collections. They are males, and show a hair pencil on the hind tibiæ, so I transfer umbrosaria to Cleora, following Hulst's separation of Cleora and Selidosema”.