Papilio Cochabamba, sp. nov.

Habitat: Bolivia. Expanse, 4.00 inches.

Front of head dark, greenish black. Between the eyes, two dots of greenish white, and another dot at “collar,” followed by two more similar dots on front of thorax. Antennæ greenish black, extreme point slightly brownish. Thorax, above, dark greenish black; beneath, black with a large yellowish spot at base of costar nervule, another also at base of costal nervule of hind wing, both with a small white dot above them. Legs, black above; beneath, whitish, the white extending on to thorax as a dash.

Miomantis, Saussure. Bull. Ent. Suisse, III., p. 64, 1870.

Preoccupied by Miomantis, Blanchard. D'Orbigny, Voy. Amer. Merid., VI., Ins., p. 209, 1842 (Coleoptera). To fill the deficiency, I propose the name Calidomantis.

Harpax, Serville. Ann. Sci. Nat., XXII., p. 45, 49, 1831.

Preoccupied by Harpax, Parkinson. Organic Rem., 1811 (Mollusca). I have not been able to examine the first edition of Parkinson, but in the second the name Harpax occurs on page 221 of volume III. To replace Serville's genus, I propose the name Australomantis.

In the Canadian Entomologist for December, 1894 (Vol. XXVI., page 329), I presented the species of Psychoda then known to me from Long Island, N. Y. In the following year, in the November number (Vol. XXVII., page 324, I added some notes and described one more species. Since then nothing has been published on our Eastern species. Prof. Kincaid, however, has been active in studying the Western species.

There never yet was anything new or revolutionary advanced or suggested that was not met with a “protest” from some quarter. When machinery was introduced the hand-workers protested; when railroads supplanted stage coaches the coachmen protested; and so on. So we never had a new list in any order of insects, where changes in nomenclature were made, which was not denounced by someone who found himself or herself compelled thereby to take new views or learn new names.

Southern California has its dry season in the summer, and comparatively few flowers are to be seen. Among those that remain, and are attractive to insects, the bushy species of Eriogonum are especially noteworthy, and I was fortunate in obtaining from them several bees.

Eriogonum fasciulatum was determined for me by Mrs. K. Brandegee. The Mt. Lowe species, which look very distinct from fasciculatum, is kindly identified by Miss Susan G. Stokes as E. fasciculatum polifolium, “one of the intermediate forms.” This is the E. polifolium of Bentham.

Zodion palpalis, n. sp.

♀.—Black, gray pollinose; face yellow, cheeks yellow, one-half the eye height; front reddish yellow, a narrow black line on each side above; antennæ reddish, second joint shorter than third; palpi black, quite long, clavate; mesonotum without stripes; scutellum with about twelve slender bristles; legs black, knees testaceous; wings subhyaline; first four segments of abdomen with large, subtriangular opaque black spots, last segment black, shining. Length, 5 mm.

Diadasia rinconis, subsp. opuntiœ, nov.—♀. About 15 millim long, varying to 13 millim.; tegulæ light reddish-brown, varying to darker; wing-nervures piceous, second submarginal cell variable, but always small and usually very narrow, and narrowed above; third submarginal cell long, very strongly elbowed at end; labrum with only a few scattered hairs, or sometimes more hairy; mesothorax strongly and quite densely punctured, much more so than in rinconis; scutellum closely punctured; abdominal bands as in rinconis, with curved anterior margins; hair at apex of abdomen yellowish fuscous.