Every year, in the United States and Canada, Thoudands of dollars worth of stored grain is ruined by granary insects, chiefly of three species. These are all well known, and much has been written concerning their habits and the methods by which they can be destroyed. Besides the three very injurious species, the Granary Weevil, the Rice Weevil and the Angoumois Grain Moth, which are responsible for the most of the damage done, there are a great many other kinds of insects which do serious harm to stored grain and various other edible products.

Prosopis eulophi, sp. nov.—æ—Front coxæ simple; eyes long; cheeks narrow; metathorax with a distinct enclousre bordered by a raised line; dorsal segment i minutely puntured, without lateral white pubescent fasciæ; black; flagellum testaceous beneath; pale yellow marks as follows: lateral face marks about equally narrowed above and below, two lines on collar, tubercles, dot on tegulæ, bases of tibiæ, and base of hind metatarsus; wings hyaline; length 5 mm.

Ischnoptera adusta, n. sp.—Description—Male: Colour dark yellowish, with eyes black and the disc of the pronotu slightly mottled with fuscous and the tips of the elytra and wings fuliginous. Anterior femora beneath of the inner margin armed on the apical two-thirds with about ten semiequal, equidistant spines, the basal third unarmed. Subgenital plate roundly incised apically; apical styles long, slender rigid spines extending about half their length beyond the apex of the subgenital plate; cerci long, fusiform.

Two species of fire-flies are abundant in western Massachusetts in the early summer and often their display of light presents a magnificent spectacle. Theses species are Photinus scintillans, Say, and Photuris Pennsylvanica, De Geer. Photinus scintillans becomes active very early in the evening, and long before twilight begins its orange-coloured light may be seen flashing among the shrubbery. It is only active during the twilight hour and some time before total darkness has set in its lights have disappeared.

Probably everyone will agree with Dr. Pearsall's remarks in the April number of this journal as to the necessity for a revision of the North American Geometridæ. The whole group is in a sad state of disorder; the old species are not all well understood and many of the newer ones (Dr. Hulst's and Dr. Strecker's), being unfigured and insufficiently described, are very difficult to identify. It will be some time yet, I fear before anyone will be in a position to attempt a completed monograph, and probably it will be better to take up the work genus by genus, as Dr.Pearsall is doing.

373. Cosmia discolor, Walk.—(paleacea, Esp., of North American authors, in error.) Common in 1903, ♂ ♂ Aug. 31st to Sept. 23rd; ♀, only one observed, Sept. 7th. A single specimen only (♂) taken previously, in 1895. A few during 1904. Treacle.

Exentera apriliana, Grote.—Aweme, IV, 30, to V, 21; Beulah. Thirteen specimens. This is a particularly interesting caputre. Grote's descripiton is remarkably brief, and his generic description, occurring on the same page, is misleading on account of an error. He states: “Hind wings 7-veined, 5 wanting.” I know of no Tortricid genus in which 5 is absent; frequently 3 and 4 are coincident or stalked for their entire length, but even this is not the case in any one of these specimens; 3 and 4 are stalked from a quarter to a half.

Mamestra ascula, n. sp.— Ground colour very pale ashen gray, with a somewhat luteous tinge more or less obvious in most specimens; best marked in the male, most frequently wanting in the female. The ordinary lines are all broken and obscured by the shading, yet all distinctly traceable, geminate, one part of the line blackish, the other smoky and always partly incomplete. Basal line usually marked by a geminate spot on costa. There is a short black basal streak, best marked and a little curved in the female, and above it the basal space tends to be a litter paler.

On May 19, 1904, Mr. W. Metcalfe found some green Geometrid larvæ, at Hull, Que., feeding on the common Juniper (Juniperus communis, L). These were handed to the writers, who succeeded in bringing them to maturity. Three of the bred moths were sent to the Rev. G. W. Taylor, of Wellington B.C. for identification.

Acting on the information given me by a woodchopper who had seen hundreds of green flies under the bark of a tree he had felled a few days previously, I made a further investigation, and upon reaching the locality found several dead Lace wing flies crushed under the bark of a Tamarack tree he had been sawing up. Furthur search undert the bark of a tall dead Tamarack (Larix occidentalis) which had just been felled, resulted in a rather unique cathch on removing the bark, which peeled off easily from the butt end, hundreds of lively specimens of the minute Tineid, Lyonetia speculella, Clem., were found.

Since my “Notes on Hydrometra Martini, Kirk.,” in the Canadian Entomologist for January of this year, pages 12 to 15, I have had the opportunity of examining another specimen fo Say's var. australis,” and study of it confirms the conclusions I then drew. It is unquestionably a good species and not merely a variety, and it affords me real pleasure to recognize true Hydrometra of which Say is the author.

♀.— Length about 15 mm; similar in size, build and pubescence to E. floridana (Sm), except that the hair of thorax above is entirely bright orange-fulvous; hair to occiput and vertex (except some black hairs at sides, but including the conspicuous interocellar tuft) is pale orange-fulvous; and the wings are not so dark.