This tribe, to the initiated, is readily distinguished by the eyes, which are usually quite differently shaped, rarely smooth and shining, and always distinctly facetted, although a few females have small ellipsoidal or somewhat rounded eyes, as in the tribes Photopsidini and Sphaerphthalmini, and therefore, if the greatest care is not given to other characters, could be confused with certain genera in those tribes.

Homoporus Vassiliefi, sp. nov.— ♀ — Length, 2 mm. Head and thorax bluish, finely, closely punctured, the face and the pleura with a greenish metallic lustre, the metapleura decidedly brassy; antennæ brown, the scap yellow; legs concolorous with the thorax, the hind coxæ with a metallic greenish fringe, the apices of all femora, all tibiæ and tarsi, except the last joint, yellow, the last joint dark fuscous; wings hyaline, the nervures brown, the stigmal vein two-thirds the length of the marginal, the postmarginal vein very nearly as long as the marginal; abdoment aeneous black, tinged with metalic green basally at the sides, ovate, somewhat pointed at apex, very little longer than the thorax.

Mr. Washbrun's note in the November number (p. 320) induces me to state the Gastrophilus epilepsalis, French, is no Gastrophilus at all; in fact, not the larva of an Œstrid. The figure shows that it is a Muscid larva, very probably of Calliphora, certainly so if the figure is correct. The species cannot be identified untill more of these forms are reared. French's figure indicates that it is very close to the European C. vomitoria as figured by Pipers. There is no definite character known to identify Œstrid larvæ of some Muscidæ can be separated from the Œstridæ.

Melissodes brevicornis, Cress.—Lincoln, Aug. 12–27, on Teucrium Canadense. The ♀ differs from the ♂ only in having the face-parts black, pubescence on face lighter, segments 2 to 4 only banded; the scopa is yellowish. The ♂ ♂ taken all bad the tibiæ and tarsi entirely fulvous.

Protandrenopsis, new genus. — Labial palpi four-jointed, 1 about twice as long as 2–4 together, 2–4 slightly decreasing in length; maxillary palpi 6-jointed, 1 and 2 subequal, longer than any of the following joints; 3, 5 and 6 subequal, 4 slightly longer; tongue long, lanceolate; mandibles simple; labrum transverse, process of labrum large, almost covering labrum; foveæ present, small; stigma large, well developed, nearly two thirds the length of the obliquely truncate, subappendiculate marginal cell, which is about as long as the two submarginals together; second submarginal fully one-third longer than the first, receiving the first recurrent nervure about one-third from base and the second near apex; median cell along the median nervure, a little longer than the submedian, the transverse median nervure joining the median just before the origin of the basal nervure; scopa on posterior tibiæ first joint of tarsi and on venter.

There must be many facts known to entomologists which, though not sufficiently important to work up into an article for the entomological magazines, are still of much interest, and worthy of publication, and I would like to suggest that a page or part of a page at the end of each number of the “Canadian Entomologist” be set aside for this purpose, and that correspondents be invited to send brief notes of rare captures or other interesting items.*

The history of the generic term Pseudanarta is as follows:

1878. Grote, Bull. U.S. Geol. Surv. 178: crocea (flava) sole species, and therefore type.

1882. Grote, New Check List, New York, 27: flava, var. crocea, singula flavidens, aurea. The genus is credited without citation to Hy. Edwards, under the mistaken idea, derived from a previous correspondece, that this writer had used or described the genus. The name Pseudanarta was originally proposed in letters by Grote for Edwards's Anarta crocea, in which the eyes are naked, the tibiæ unarmed, and which is, in reality, as originally state by Grote, allied to Hadena, Led., nec Schrank.

A single specimen was collected one evening at Las Vegas, at a flower of Gaura coccinea. I then remarked of it: “Face narrower than type; possibly a distinct species.” It seemed strange that it should be visiting the Gaura, but it did not occur to me that I had a genuinely vespertine bee. On June 22, 1903, at Pecos, I was astonished to see a number of bees busily collecting pollen from the flowers of Galpinsia fendleri (a large yellow evening primrose)after sunset, at 7.30 p.m. I collected some, and found that they were my “Halictus amicus, var. a, ” which is evidently a distinct species. It is readily known from H. amicus by the narrower face and more sparsely punctured clypeus.

Professor N. J. Kusnezov, of St. Petersburg, Russia has recently described a new Catocala from Texas, with four figures. A reprint of the description of the species may be of interest to American collectors, hence I reproduce it below:

“Catacala orba, Kusnezov.—Expanse of male 48 mm; size of C. Judith. Strecker.

“ Antennæ of male ciliate, gray, scaled above, with slight tuftings of hair below. (Palpi broken off.) Front densely covered with whitish-gray hairs. Patagia and front parts of tegulæ and mesothorax dark brown; vertex gray; the rest of tegulæ, nota, and crest on metathorax, whitishgray. Upper part, sides and crests of the abdominal somites dark gray; anal tuft long, dark gray, lighter below. Thorax on the under side and femora thickly clothed with long, dirty white hairs and scales. (Fore tibiæ broken off.)