The following list of Odonata is mainly the result of four seasons collecting in various parts of Ontario, but chiefly in three localities, viz: Toronto, De Grassi Point, Lake Simcoe, and Algonquin Park.

Although most of the material was collected by the writer, the list has been considerably lengthened by the records of captures made by other collectors. Among these should be mentioned the collections of Dr. Wm. Brodie, in the Educational Dept., Toronto; many specimens taken in Algonquin Park by Prof. Macoun in 1900, and by Mr. Paul Hahn in 1903–4; a considerable number from the collection of the Biological Dept. of the University of Toronto, consisting chiefly of alcholic specimens of nymphs and imagoes taken at the Biological Experiment Station at Go Home, Georgian Baym and a few collected and presented to the Department by the late Mr. R. T. Anderson; and finally, a small collection from Thessalon, Algoma, belonging to Miss Rounthwaite, of Toronto.

I have carefully separated out my material by Mr. Pearsall's latest (Can. Ent., xxxviii, 33, 1906) and find all the forms before me. I cannot agree that the arrangement in final. In the first place, in describing the genus Nomenia, Mr. Pearsall mentioned as type 12-lineata, Pack., which he now transfers to EuchŒca, and makes a new name, unipecta, Pears., for the types species. This strikes me a contravention of the rules.

1. In 1874 Dr Packard 1 described and figured a Californian Geometer under the name Acidalia subalbaria. The type was one female, and the specimen was figured in teh photographic plate accompanying the paper.

In his monograph 2 Dr. Packard repeats the description word for word, merely adding after the word antennæ, “which are well pectinated in the male” (for at this time he had both sexes of the species), and at the end of his account he says “the male antennæ are well pectinated, an unusual exception to their oridinary form in this genus.” A lithographed figure is given (Mon. plate x, p. 63) of the male specimen, but the markings are emphasized in a way which gives a wrong impression as to their distinctness.

The new species in the writer's collection selected for description in the following pages are representatives of the genera Cymatodera and Hydnocera, of the Cleridæ and have been now chosen in order that their publication may be as nearly contemporaneous as possible with the recent descriptions of new species by Mr. Schaeffer and Dr. Skinner, whose articles have aroused some present interest in this family.

Since the above investigations was begunm I have received, under date of Jan. 31, a letter from Mr. L. B. Prout, whose lively interest in solving these vexed problems is as great as my own, and much more unselfish. I acn best show this by quoting it here, with apologies to him for so doing without permission.

On the 24th of last September Mr. Ernest Shoemaker and I went insect-collecting along the edge of the meadow on the south side of Long Island, not far from the Brooklyn City line. We were searching particularly for Cincindelas but, the day being rather cold, we did not see as many as we had expected.

The following seven species of Tineina were part of a large and well-preserved collection of Microlepidoptera, recently received for determination from Mr. Henry Engel, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, who has presented the types,together with many other specimens of other species, to the U.S. National Museum.

In the Canadian Entomologist, Vol. xxxiv, page 232 (1902), I gave the reasons for adopting hesperidum as the type of Coccus, which adoption caused such radical changes in the classification of the Cocciœ that I am free to say I hesitated to make them in my Catalogue of the Coccidæ of the World, published in 1903. The main difficulty was to give a proper interpretation to the action of Geoffroy, in his Histoire Abrégée des Insectes, Vol. I (1762), where he removed a part fo the Linnæan species from Coccus, and placed them in the genus Chermes, thus using this genus in a different sense from that of Linnæus, the original founder, and placing adonidum, phalaridis was given by Linnæus under the gensu Coccus, in his Systema Naturæ, ed. x (1758), and no one has ever been able to positively identify this insect.

In a recent number of this journal* Mr. Quayle gives some notes on the habits of the Californian Culex squamiger, Coq., and compares these briefly with those of a species occuring in Nw Jersey which we have been calling squamiger (following a determination by Mr. Coquillett), and suggests the possibility of there being two forms. The identification of our species with the Californian one has been doubted by Prof. Smith and myself since we learned of the salt-water habit of the latter; but not until Mr. Quayle pointed out the difference in the length of tracheal gills of the larva was a close comparison of the species made.

The “confusion worse confounded” in which the mosquitoes of America are at present enveloped may be illustrated by the two following instances:

In the August number, Canadian Entomologist (1904) I described a mosquito from Benecia, Cal, as Grabhamia de Neidmannii, and, some time afterward, received a note from Mr. Coquillett, stating he believed it to be his Culex squamiger (orginally published as Tœniorhynchus).

My friend, Prof. T.D.A. Cockerell, has indicated some omissions in the above Catalogue, which I have verified. Those marked * are not recorded in the “Zoological Record,” and I had not seen the works fill Prof. Cockerell called my attention to them.

Salganea humeralis, new species.— Size medium. General colour black, the under surface of the legs and of the body, except the last abdominal segment, or subgenital plate, and the mouth, except the mandibles, and also the vertex, reddish. The base of the elytra in the anal field is also tinted with reddish. Antenna♀ dark, hairy. Wings and elytra mostly missing. Anterior femora unarmed.

Occaionally, after a mild day or two in winter, we see a newspaper paragraph headed “Remarkable Appearance of a Butterfly.” From the tone of the article we usually judge that the writer had been lost in astonishment, at what he regarded as a strange phenomenon. This short paper will rob such appearances of their mystery.