The lined grasshopper, Schistocerca lineata Scud., is the only one of the genus met with in the Prairie Provinces, although it has as relations, several famous locusts of the Old World and South America including the desert locust, Schistocerca gregaria Forst., and S. paranensis Burm. Indeed there is something in the flight and other actions of this insect which separates it from its associates as an aristocrat and most of us seeing it for the first time would readily proclaim “This is a locust”. Despite its aristocratic ancestry, however, the lined grasshopper is little better than a hermit, and in Canada it is restricted in distribution to the southern slopes of a few hot coulies in Alberta.

Several interesting records on Canadian Sarcophagidae have come to hand during the past several years. Two of these records, with the description of an undescribed species from Canada, are as follows.

Genus Prochloridea B. & McD. This genus has been placed in the Heliothiinae but after a study of the genitalia of a male of madonna B. & L., which is probably only a form of the genotype, modesta B. & McD., I believe it should be either placed next or sunk to Rhizagrotis as the genitalia show an extraordinary similarity to those of cloanthoides Grt., the genotype. I have already commented on the position of Rhizagrotis in the “Canadian Entomologist”, 1927, page 64, and restricted it to the species cloanthoides Grt. and albalis Grt.; the structural details of these two species fit in very well with the characterization of Prochloridea.

In July 1931, while collecting beetles of the genus Donacia on rushes growing on the border of Lake of the Two-Mountains, near St. Placide, Que. I noticed a Hymenopterous insect alighting on one of these plants. It immediately walked down the stem, entering into the water and continued walking down, clinging to the stem of the plant, until it disappeared from view. Its movements under water were quite rapid. The water was about 24 to 30 inches deep.

The Mallophaga listed were collected from birds and mammals taken principally by the writer in various parts of Utah as indicated. The numbers found on the infested hosts varied from one or more to scores. The shore birds and jay were most heavily infested. The lice almost invariably came to the surface of the feathers or fur when the hosts became cold.

Egg.—The egg is described by Hungerford (11) as being “elongate-oval, with a curved neck terminating in a flat surface which marks the exposed end of the egg as it lies in situ in the stem of some plant”. It is white when first laid, but within a few days it becomes watery transparent as the embryo begins to take form. The deep red eye spots and segmentation appear two days before hatching. Measurements of ten eggs of this species show the average length to be .877 mm., the greatest diameter .268 mm., and the diameter of the exposed end of the egg to be .163 mm.