For some time it has appeared to me that two species have been going under the above name. Heinrich in his revision gives the food-plant as Hamamelis but the few bred specimens in our collection from southern Ontario from larvae on this plant together with several captured specimens from New York State did not match Kearfott's description particularly well.

The following notes deal with three species in the genera Spudastica, Echthronomas and Campoctonus, and are based on material in the National Collection, supplemented by specimens loaned from the United States National Museum and the personal collection of Dr. H. K. Townes, to whom I am especially indebted for providing me with this additional material.

The conspicuously colored larva of Cucullia asteroides Gn. is commonly seen feeding on the flowers of autumn Compositae. Numerous descriptions of the color pattern of this species are recorded. To complete these, the setal arrangement and other distinguishing structural features are described below.

As a result of my description of Tanaops testaceus several years ago (1), a friend of mine, Mr. J. W. Green, of Easton, Penn., has sent me a good series of a species in the same genus, from New Mexico. These specimens apparently represent an undescribed species, which I would like to make known at the present time. So far as I am able to determine, no species of this genus has been heretofore reported from New Mexico.

In the present report I wish to define five species of crane-flies from California, all belonging to the subgenus Lunatipula Edwards of the major genus Tipula Linnaeus. These specimens were collected by Messrs. T. H. G. Aitken, Mont Cazier, Otto Degener, Anthony Downes, and C. D. Michener, to whom I am greatly indebted for the privilege of retaining the types of the various species. In western North America, the subgenus Lunatipula is represented by a host of species that break up into several well-defined groups of forms.