Who is not interested in the insects that persist in living in our homes as unwelcome guests? Some of these intruders are blood-thirsty creatures, and torment the bodies of their helpless hosts; some confine their attnetions to the carpets, woollens, and upholsters, and others are partial to the pantry, but all are heartily hated by the industrious housewife.

In a paper written not long since (Can. Ent., Vol.XXXVII., p. 344) I stated that in examining the type of Dr. Hulst's genus Talledega (Lobophora montanata, Pack.) the male was possessed of characters which would place it in genus Lobophora, Curtis, and that in consequence the genus Talledega would fall.

While making a study of the Coccidæ representing the genus Aspidiotus (sens. latiss.) in the collection of Cornell University, I found two undescribed species; both are from the United states.

Habitat: Suapure, Venezuela. Expanse, 1.60 inches.

Head and thorax dark brown above, with a slight whtie dot at base of each antenna; below nearly white. Palpi black above, white below. Abdoment dark brown above, below nearly white, with a dusting of tawny scales of the last two segments. Antenn♀ dark brown.

In the original description of this insect, * Dr.Riley says that on account of its uniform pale yellow colour it is easily distinguished from Trichogramma minutum, Riley, which is black. Unfortunately, this does not hold.† Out of the hundreds of specimens of pretiosa reared during the enire season of 1904, at Paris, Texas, from the eggs of Heliothis obsoleta, Fabricius, there appeared from a lot of host eggs on Sept. 20th a number of dark individuals, which could easily have been mistaken for a distinct species.

Some years ago I attempted to make tables to separate the species of Eulecanium. The attempt was not wholly successful; partly on account of the difficulty of the subject, and partly because there are no doubt more names than species in this genus, and the first step should probably be to reduce a number to the synonmy.

452. Rachela Bruceata, Hulst.— Not observed previous to 1898. It appeared in millions in 1902, and in the following year was still more abundant. In those two years hundreds of acres of Populus tremuloides were completely denuded by the larv♀ during June. It appeared to be aided in its depredations by a Tortix, the name of which I have not yet discovered, but subsequent observation brings me to belive that by far the greater part of the denudation was caused by this species.

The following list of moths is the result of collections most during the months of June and July, 1904, in the neighbourhood of Temagami Lake, which is situated in the Nipissing District of Ontario, north of Lake Huron, Lat. 48°.

Throught the kindness of Mr. F. H. Wolley Dod, I have now in my cabinet specimens of 13 species of “Pugs” taken by him in the neighbourhood of Calgary.

Three of these belong to well known and widely-distributed species, viz: Eupithecia cretaceata, Pack.; E. ravocastaliata, Pack.; and Eucymatoge anticaria, Walker.