The wasps belonging to this family, on account of the emarginate eyes in the females, and the abdomen being usually marked with yellow or white, closely resembles those in the families Myzinidæ and, scoliidæ, butmay be easily distinguished by the great difference in the legs, the middle coxæ being approximate, the outer face of the tibiæ being smooth,unarmed, without tubercles or spines, while the tarsi are without strong spines or bristles, and unfitted for digging.

Feralia Columbiana, n. sp.—Ground colour a bright emerald green, the maculation black and white. Head with a black interantennal spot. Collar with a black patch at its centre and at the base of each primary: tipped with whitish. Behind the collar there is a black edging to the disc and the loose basal tuftings are black marked. The edges of the patagia are black along the disc and at the base of the wings. The thorax itself is small and quadrate, the maculation just described forminga black square in its centre. The abdomen is deep smoky brown,yellowish or whitish at tip. Primaries with all the lines black, prominent, yet fragmentary. Basal line single, accompanied by a few white scales, becoming diffuse at the inner margin. T. a. line single, followed by a white line, out curved as a whole and irregularly bent or curved outwardly in the interspaces.

The knowledge of our Arctic insect fauna is of so fragmentary a character that any contribution thereto is of special interest and value to Canadian entomologists. I am indebted to Dr. Hans Kiaer, of the Museum of Tromso, Norway, for a copy of an exceedingly valuable catalogue entitled “Die Arktischen Tenthrediniden,” * an examination of which emphasizes this fact. His introduction points out that in Candad little is known of the forms occuring north of St. Martin's Falls, Lat. 51°, whereas in Norway species are recordd from as far north as Lat. 70°. Of 228 species enumerated (including 12 of Siricoidea) Arctic Scandinavia furnishes 132, Nove Zemlya 18, Spitzbergen 6, Iceland 3, Greenland 2, Hudson's Bay region 59, Alaska 8, and Arctic Siberia 11.

On the 6th May, 1901, a cluster of 30 eggs of Cricigrapha Normani, Grt., was found by the writer. Six of these had been destroyed and the contents eaten, probably by some hemiptetrous insect. The eggs were laid in rows close together, touching each other, on the upper side of a leaf of Caulophyllum thalictroides, Michx., and formed almost a completed square, an average of six eggs being in each row. They looked as if they had just been laid. Yound maple, ash and birch trees were growing near by.

The occurrence in Arizona of a representative of a very anomalous wingless genus of Phoridæ, of which but a single specimen was heretofore known, and that found beneath a stone in such a widely-separated locality as Denmark, is a problem in geographical distribution very difficult of solution. During the entomological excursion of Messrs. E. A. Schwarz and H.S. Barber to portions of New Mexico and Arizona in the summer of 1901, while collecting at the base of a hill of Flagstaff, Arizona, Mr. Barber obtained in his sweeping net a single speciment of the cockrach-like genus Aenigmatias. This specimen agrees closely with Dr. Meinert's original description and figures of his Aenigmatias blattoides*, except that it has only six instead of seven body-segments, not counting the genitalia.

In an article on the genns Lecanium, Published in the Canadian Entomologist, Vol. 34, p. 177 (1902), I stated that I inferred that Costa proposed generic names for the Coccidæ in his Prospetto di una nuova descrizione metodica del genera Coccus L., work I had not seen at that time, as no copy could be found in the libraries of this country or in London. Mr. Fernald has, however, recently secured a copy of this exceedingly rare work, published in 1828, from Naples, Italy.

In the October number of the Canadian Entomologist, I told of the appearance at Levis of a tortoise-beetle new to this Province.

A question as to the identiy of this insect having been raised, I asked Professor E.A. Popenoe, of Kansas State Agricultural College (to whom i was sending specimens), for his opinion upon it. I also sent specimens to the Coleopterist of the British Museum, with a like request. Both gentleman very kindly answered me.