Thomas Say described one species of Psychoda from the United States; Walker descrbied another from Hudson's Bay; and Dr. Williston, in Entom. News, 1893, described a third species from New York. I have noticed in the vicinity of Sea Cliff, N. Y., seven species, only one of which I have identified as previously described. Most of the forms I have collected are probably common elsewhere in the Eastern States and in Canada.

My esteemed friend, Dr. L. Gundlach, has left to me the task of describing several nerv Bombyces, which he discovered within the last few years in Cuba. Some of the specimens which are uniques, are, unfortunately, in such a poor state that a thorough description was well-nigh impossible. In one case I had to refrain entirely, on account of the dilapidated condition of the insect. All the types belong to the Museo Cubano Zoologico de Gundlach, lately acquired by the Spanish Government.

On page 224 of Canadian Entomologist, Volume XXVI., Mr. Herman Strecker has some remarks on Chionobas, in which I am glad to say, he supports my views, except in two points. First, with regard to the subhyalina of Curits, I cannot coceive on what grounds he supposes that the description of subhyalina refers to Erebia fasciata, and as W. H. Edwards's suggestion that the example from Guenée's collection sent to me by Oberthur as the type of subhyalina is not really so, rests on no evidence whatever; I still maintain that subhyalina is the proper name for the insect hitherto called crambis, Freyer, found, as far as we know at present, from Newfoundland along the Labrador coast to Hudson's Straits and other parts of Eastern Arctic America.

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.

Saitis Annæ, n. sp.—Length 3½mm.; width of abdomen, 1 mm. Cephalothorax, about as long as, but perhaps not quite so broad as abodemen. Abdomen broadly oval. Cephalothorax, about 1½times as long as broad; broadest between 2nd and 3rd rows of eyes. General colour grayish brown, not metallic.

In the Canadian Entomologist, Vol. 26, page 184, the Rev. Thomas W. Fyles described a moth as new under the name of “Botysurticaloides.” Mr. Fyles has been so kind as to lend me his type for examination, and it proves to be identical with Metrea ostreonalis, described by Grote in “Papilio,” Vol. 2 p. 73, where he states that the type was taken by Mr. L. W. Goodell, in Amherst, Mass., and that he specimen, and also another one taken in Bangorm, Maine, by Mr. Fred. Eddy.

Corunna is the capitl of Shiawassee County, in the central part of the Lower Peninsula, and approximately in 43° nort latitude. The town is situated on the Shiawassee River, which traverses the country and enters the Saginaw, as a chief branch.

Food plant.—Clarkia elegans, etc.

Egg.—Shaped like a white table squash without the scollops; usually laid on the flower buds, the young larva feeding inside on the parts of the flower; hatched in eight to eleven days.

These notes relate chiefly to species taken in the vicinity of Quebec City, all to species taken in the Province of Quebec during 1892–1893. I am greatly indebted to Mr. W. H. Harrington for the identification of many of the following:

Cicindela longilabris, Say. June 5 and 8. Fort woods, Levis.

Owing to the extensive commerce in nursery stock and fruits, which has been carried on all over the world for many years, it has become a matter of very considerable difficulty to form any adequate idea of the original Coccid fauna of any given part of the globe. Restriction of the imporations of diseased nursery stock and fruit is new, and for years plants and fruit, carrying thousands of scal insects, have been landed almost daily at most large seaports.

Staphylinus erythropterus, Linn. This beetle has been but once recorded in America, the speciment being noted from Detriot. I have now to record it as inhabiting this section of Canada, and, at the same time to correct an error which has been put in circulation through my agency. When Dr. LeConte visited me in July 1883, he named a beetle for me as S.cœsareus, Cederh. (ornaticauda, Lec.), remarking that it has only once been found in America.