Since 1925 the lecanium scale Eulecanium coryli (L) has been one of the most destructive insects in the coast region of British Columbia. It was introduced accidentally from Europe about 1913. A great variety of hosts are attacked, the chief of these, in order of preference, being: alder, horse-chest-nut, maples of several species, hawthorn, mountain ash, laurel, elm and garden roses; a few scales are often to be found on species of Rubus, Populus, Betula and Salix.

Papilio cresphontes Cram., tr. f. forsythae new tr f.

In typical Florida and southern United States examples of cresphontes, the ground color is pale yellow. In this tr. f. the ground color is a deep canary yellow, practically an orange or burnt umber, similar to Papilio rutulus ammoni Behrens which is well illustrated on pl. I of Comstock's “Butterflies of California.”

Length 6.2 mm.; width 1.9 mm. Form of vespertinus Fab. Head black; pronotum reddish-yellow with an oval median black spot, the spot attaining the apical and basal margins and occupying about three-eights of the pronotal area: scutellum black; elytra reddish-yellow, each elytron with a median blackish stripe; the stripe not quite attaining the base, including the third, fourth, fifth, and sixth intervals in its basal half, a little narrower apically except at apical fourth where it extends almost to the lateral margin, attaining the suture along its apical third; the sutural interval blackish in basal fourth; prothoracic flanks reddish-yellow; prosternum black, a transverse area just behind the lobe and the intercoxal process reddish-yellow ; metasternum and posterior coxae black, the median line of he former reddish-yellow; abdomen dark reddish-brown, the apical segment and margins paler; antennae, legs and palpi pale yellow; integuments highly polished throughout, clothed with inconspicuous yellow hairs.

Size and general color:—Length from vertex to tip of anal plate, 1.88. Head and thorax black, lateral portions of prothorax often a deep brown. Abdomen deep brown to black with black dorsal and lateral bands. Cornicles light brown. Cauda rounded, dark brown to black; anal plate black, bilobed, deeply cleft.

This list is based mainly upon parasites reared from field collected material while the author was working at the Bedford Entomological Laboratory of the Purdue University Agricultural Experiment Station during the summer of 1931. Special attention was given to Lepidopterous stem-borers and leaf rollers likely to be found near peach orchards. Several other records, obtained from specimens in the collection of the author, have been included. All records without indication of the year are for the 1931 season.

On November 3rd, 1928, I collected at Stone Mountain, Georgia, a Carabid beetle—Dicaelus elongatus (Bon.)—which gave off a very strong discharge of gas which turned to a dense smoke. This appeared to come from the sides of the thorax, instead of from the posterior end of the abdomen as in the genus Brachynus.

Smoky black, apical three-fourths of elytra blood red: clothed with moderately dense prostrate pubescence.

Head black, closely, finely punctate, moderately densely pubescent, a wide, deep transverse impression between the eyes: beak pubescent, closely, finely punctate, moderately long, subparallel, half as wide as long at apex; maxillary palpi closely and finely punctate, moderately pubescent, apical joint not twice as long as wide, apex rounded, inner side subangulate; antennae finely, closely punctate, densely pubescent, with a few short, erect, pale hairs scattered irregularly, third joint wider and very slightly longer than fourth.