1. The CicindelidÆ of Ontario and Quebec.

[The following is the first of a series of papers which Mr. Wickham is specially preparing for this magazine. It is intended that they should treat of all the more conspicuous families of Coleoptera and present in tabular form the genera and species that are found in the Provinces of Ontario and Quebec; a descriptive list will also be given of the species, so far as known, that are to be found in the other provinces of the Dominion of Canada.

My local material allied to the European Aphirape consists of 22 males, 11 females. These have been studied in comparison with 3 ♂, 1 ♀ typical Aphirape from Germany, 2 ♀ 2 ♀ Aphirape var. Ossianus from Northern Finland, 1 ♂ Ossianus from Sweden, 1 ♂ 1 ♀ Aphirape var. Triclaris from Labrador, and 3 ♂ 1 ♀ Triclaris collected by Mr. H. K. Morrison in souther Colorado.

A practical way of procuring moths's eggs under my observation last season and the season before, though an Arctia ornata ♂ that I sent to Mr. Dyar while he was in Portland, Oregon.

When I take an Arctia ornata ♀, and she is ready to lay eggs, the moment she shows signs of being stupefied in the Cyanide bottle I take her out, close the wings over her back, and place her in a paper envelope; as soon as she revives, she will commence to scratch the paper with her legs; I then shake the envelope, and if she has given up some eggs, I take them out, give her another dose of Cyanide fumes, and when she revives a second time I have found as many as 125 eggs in the paper.

R. arefactus, n. sp.

The galls are dense, corky enlargements of small shoots, usually close to the stem from which the shoot arises, and the shoot is usually dead beyond the gall when the latter is mature. The galls are irregular in shape, vary from one-half to seven-eights of an inch in diameter, and are polythalamous.

During the past few years Mr. Trevor Kincaid, of Olympia, Washington State, has kindly sent me many interesting arachinds from that region. Among them quite a number of phalangids, some of which have been described, others will be given in this paper.

During my sojourn in Florida, 1892–93, I happened to collect some small insects, Collembola, of the family Lipuridæ. As I suppose very little, if anything, is known about the representatives of this group from that country, I presume every little contribution to the knowledge must be of a certain interest, and I thus take the liberty of writing you this letter.

I little thought when I wrote my short note (ante pp. 47–48) that the American speceis of Anthocharidi were in such a muddle as Mr. Dyar has quickly proved them to be. It will be very necessary to go much further now with the question, and I would suggest that those who have the opportunity should, during this season if possible, and next season if it be now too late, examine critically and make drawings of the eggs, larvæ and pupæ of the Anthocharids in question and publish them in the Candian Entomologist, where they can be examined by British workers and compared with European speices.

Since 1861, the date of Hagen's Synopsis, only three additional species of Chryospidæ have been recorded from the United States— one from Florida, one from Texas and one from California. During the past summer I received a short note from Mr. A. P. Morse, of Wellesley, Mass., enclosing a few specimens of Chrysopidæ which he thought might prove new to our collection.

In the Canadian Entomologist for May (page 140) there appears an article by Mr. Wm. H. Patton, entitled “Zethus Aztecus in Florida,” in which the author attempts to prove that Zethus Poeyi, Slossan♂ and aztecus are the same species. As I am the authority for one of these species, it was but natural that I should make a study of the trio, in order to ascertain if Mr. Patton's assertions were correct.

I have recently been investigating the synonymy, and the natural history generally, of the two species of geometers which are frequently confused under the above name,* and as Packard was not quite clear about the matter, it seems desribale to call attention to the true position of their American representative.

Mr. C. H. Tyler Townsend has resigned his position as Curator of the Museum at Kingston, Jamaica, and has returned to Las Crues, New Mexico. He begs that his correspondents will take note of his change of address.