Since the apperarance of a paper in the May and June, 1903, numbers of the Canadian Entomologist, the writer has received for study either eggs or larvæ of several species of Apantesis, information as to the earlier stages of each of which was limited. The past three seasons in Canada have not been remarkable as to the abundance of material to collect, and Arctians, like many other kinds of moths, have been very scarce. Consequently not as many species have been received for study as had been hoped.

Over a year ago the writer received from Prof.T. D. A. Cockerell, for naming, a pair of Tipulids with aborted wings, taken on the summit of the Las Vegas Mts., in New Mexico, I suspected that they belonged to some normally long-winged form but repeated comparisons have failed to convince me that they belong to any of those represented in National Museum. They closely resemble Limnophila costata, Coq., which also inhabits high altitudes in the same region, but the joints of the antenn♀ are much shorter and broader, besides other differences.

The last week in May, 1904, the writer spent on a collecting trip for Coleoptera in Central Texas. The places collected at were Ft. Worth, or more properly speaking, Station 6, five miles east of the city, on the electric line to Dallas, May 23; Granbury, on the Brazos River, May 24; Brownwood, on Pecan Bayou, May 25–26; Winchell, on the Colorado River, May 26–27; Brady, on Brady Creek, May 27; and Camp San Saba, on San Saba River, two hundered miles south west of Ft. Worth, on May 27–28.

The reciprocal relations of flowers and insects form a subject which has attracted many workers since Darwin and others showed the importance of this phase of biology. In the whole field of adaptation we have no better materials than those afforded by the morphology of flowers and insects considered in their relation to each other. The field has been most exploited by botanists, but some entomologists have also made valuable contributions to the literature of this subject, and their assistance has always been necessary for the identification of visitors observed.

Dr. W. H. Ashmead, of the National Museum, Washington, D. C.., has published from time to time in the Canadian Entomologist descriptions of new genera and new species of Hymenoptea from the Philippine Islands. As the great majority of these new insects were either collected or bred in the garden attached to the Manila Observatory, perhaps the life histories of some of them will not be without interest and value.

The following new species of mosquitoes have been found in New Jersey during the present summer (1905) in the course of the investigation conducted by Dr. John B. Smith.

Culex pallidohirta, sp. nov. ♀.— Head brown, occiput clothed with yellowish scales and a few dark brown ones intermixed; antenn♀ brown, the basal joint and basal half of following one dirty yellow; proboscis brown, with whitish scales scattered over the surfae save at the apical fourth; palpi brown, tipped with silvery white, four jointedm apical joint minute, flattened, spiny.

Some of the generic names used for Scatophagid♀ will stand of fall according to one's notion of homonymy. Becker, in 1894, proposed the name Orthacheta (cf. Inded Zoologicus); Aldrich, in the interest of orthography, has altered this (Cat. N. A. Diptera) to Orthochœta. Now, Germar long ago used Orthochœtes for a beetle, while Cossmann, in 1890, used Orthochetus for a mollusc. I do not pretend to say what ought to be done with such a mix-up; it comes back to the old question, whether an error in spelling (which may hypothetically be attributed to the printer) must be maintained; and again, if not, whether the differences in the termination suffice to prevent homonymy.

Black, the antenn♀, palpi, labella and front corners of the first two abdominal segments pale yellow, the last segment and hind edge of the preceding orange yellow. Front at narrowest part one-fifth as wide as either eye, the upper three pairs of frontal bristles much larger than the others, one pair beneath insertion of antenn♀, facial ridges strongly diverging below antenn♀ slender, almost as long as the face, the third joint five times as long as the second.

Heretofore the genus Canocephus, Konow, has been known only from Siberia, and by a single species. Two undescribed species from western Unitd States occur in Dr. Alex D. MacGillvray's collection (Cornell University), one of them also in the collection of the American Entomological Society, and at the request of Dr. MacGillivray I here describe them.

Between 2 and 3 o'clock on the afternoon of Oct. 11, 1904, I observed remarkable flight of “Water Boatmen” at St. Paul, Minn. Thousands of them were flying hither and thither over several asphaltpaved streets, which had just been watered, and on which the sun was shining; the temperature was about 60°F in th shade, the sky was clear, and there was no wind. The insects evidently mistook the wet asphalt for water. Thousands of them alighted, and were held fast by the flim of mud until they died. About 5 o'clock I noticed on one street a struggling “Boatman” to every square inch of surface.