Very common in the orchards of the Central Experimental Farm at Ottawa, Ont. Branches of many varieties of apple trees were found infested throughout the summer. In the tunnels frequently were observed specimens of Salpingus virescens Lec. (det. W. J. Brown).

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.”

The species described below are from sereral lots of beetles submitted to the author during recent months. Several of the species are of unusual interest, especially the Phytobius and the Trichocellus. The latter represents a subgentls new to North America and was included in a fine lot of arctic beetles collected by Mr. A. E. Porsild. The collections made in British Columbia by Mr. G. Stace Smith continue to add materially to our knowledge of the beetles of the province.

General ground color yellowish white to semihyaline, markings red or orange. Vertex with semblance of three white spots more or less surrounded with red or orange bands. Pronotum with rather short triangular median spot, not touching either margin. Usual angular spot back of each eye. Scutellum with tip red, basal angles yellow outlined on two sides with red. Clavi with usual basal anchor-shaped mark and angular mark before tip. Coria with spot on costa midway between costal plaque and humeral angle, angulate vitta at anterior end of plaque, rectangular spot opposite middle of plaque, two spots at posterior end and blotch before base of cell M4. Cross-veins red. Black spot in base of cell M4. Tips of tegmen more or less dusky. Venter stramineous more or less tinged with pink.

Cheliferini tribus nov.

Diagnosis. Male: coxal sac entire, lacking a sharply differentiated atrium; statumen convolutum of male genitalia (with a few doubtful and rare exceptions) anteriorly deeply invaginated or retracted and bearing medianally in the depression an anteriorly projecting sclerotic “rod” (see Chamberlin, 1931). Female: median pair cribriform plates separate and distinct.

Length, apex of head to tips of wings 5.75 mm.; width of wing at apex of clavus 1.75 mm.

Vertex broad, transverse, resembling pini, median length distinctly less than half as great as width at middle of posterior margin; anterior margin very broadly arcuate, posterior margin scarcely less so. Frons almost twice as long at middle as is clypeus, slightly transversely elevated just before lower margin; greatest width equal to median length. Pronotum with posterior margin slightly obtusely angulate at middle. Mesonotum tricarinate, median carina well defined anteriorly but obsolescent at apex, lateral carinae entire, distinctly divergent posteriorly.

American Entomologists who attend the Fifth International Entomological Congress and the Centenary of the French Entomological Society, in Paris July 16-23, 1932. will doubtless take advantage of the occasion to visit other parts of Europe.