Continued study of the material in the flea collection at the Dominion Entomological Laboratory at Kamloops, B. C., has emphasized certain mistakes in the literature. Some of the more obvious of these are cited in the following notes.

In my introductory study of North American Polistes (1940, Jl. New York Ent. Soc., XLVIII, pp. 1-31) I discussed the variation of the yellow markings in Polistes fuscatus var. pallipes Lepeletier (p. 29). I mentioned specimens with small, free, yellow spots on the disk of the second tergite. Many more wasps of this type were received during the past two years. They are particularly common in Canada, very rare or unknown elsewhere. For this reason and also because this variant is likely to be confused with var. variatus Cresson, it seems proper to distinguish it by name.

In checking over the material in our collection under Graptolitha torrida Sm. in connection with slides of the male genitalia I discovered that apparently two species were involved which could be readily separated on genitalic characters.

The forest entomologist is often called upon to inspect insect defolialion late in the season at a time when the feeding stage of the defoliator is no longer present in the trees.

Since the publication of my paper dealing with the Coleophoridae of the Maritime province (1940, Trans. Roy. Soc. Can. Sec. V, pp. 53-68) I have continued my studies in the group during field work in these provinces in 1940 and 1941.

Authors have followed Kirby in referring American specimens of Entomoscelis Chev. to the Eurasian adonidis Pallas.. One female, without label, and two male examples of adonidis from the Elbruz Mountains of northwestern Persia are before me, and they differ from American specimens, which are described below as americana n. sp., in the form of the aedeagus and in slight characters of color and sculpture. E. adonidis is said to occur from southern France and Germany to Persia and southern Siberia. There is no reason at present to believe that its distribution is continuous with that of the American form.