In Part I. of this paper Professor Jas. S. Hine has given a list of the Diptera of British Columbia in all the families except the Syrphidæ. While connected with the Minnesota University Seaside Station at Port Renfrew, on Vancouver Island, during ghe summers of 1901 and '02, the present writer paid especial attention, as far as time permitted, to the collection of Syrphids, hence the list of species in this family is much more complete than in other families which were picked up incidentally.

Andrena tranchandrenoides, n. sp.

♀ and ♂ 10 mm. Presumbaly from British Columbia. A very remarkable species, with ochreous pubescence and legs partly pale. If it were nor for the character of the antennæ, this would have to be placed in Trachandrena.

Laboratory of the Office of the Surgeon-General U.S. Army, Washington.

From one of the smaller of the Philippine Islands comes a new oMegarhinus, which is noticeable for its dark caudal tuft and banded tarsi, and with it a specimen of Stegomyia fasciata, Fabr., accurately marked in all points except the hind tarsi, which lack all the white bands except those on the metatarsi, while from Jolo is sent a new variety of Desvoidea.

Cucullia oribac, n. sp.—General type of maculation like agua, differing, however, in important particulars; moreover, it seems to be of a less stumpy, stocky build, the wings being longer in proption to their width and the abdomen considerably longer. It is quite possible that it may be but a variety of agua, and were it not for the fact that the species of Cucullia, as a rule, run quite true to type I should hesitate to describe it.

While engaged in studying the still enigmatical insect, Platypsilla castoris, along Devil's River, Texas in the spring of 1891, on opossum was treed by the dogs one evening, and shot. The following morning I found the animal, which was a female, and though herself dead, the young were still alive and in the pouch of the mother. While examining these I observed that the pouch also contained numbers of fleas. Specimens were captured and sent to the Department of Agriculture at Washington, I being at the time employed by the Division of Entomology.

It seems a little ungracious to call attention to errors in so excellent a work as “The Moth Book,” and presumptuous for a novice to criticise so eminent an authority as its author, but perhaps it is as well for the sake of the many amateur collectors who will name their captures from Dr. Holland's beautiful plates that the few mistakes that seem to have crept in should be pointed out.

In the Journal of the New York Entomological Society, X., 140, 1902, footnot, Mr. Coquillett called attention to a serious error of mine in my revision of what I called the Psilopinæ (Diptera, family Dolichopodidæ), by which I applied the new name Gnamptopsilopus to that portion of the old gensu psilopus containing the type species platypterus. But little investigation was needed to assure me that the criticism was just.

Last summer, on August 24th, a few hours were spent at Moose Jaw collecting Orthoptera. But few species were taken, and they are here listed for the locality. They were all taken on the open prairie, out a short distanace from the town.