This is the new name for our old friend, Lycana pseudargiolus, var. lucia. An interesting observation was made on the oviposition of this species by Mr. C. H. Young, of Ottawa. On June 4th, when at Meech Lake, Que., noticing a female lucia fluttering around a patch of the common Ox-eye Daisy, Chrysanthemum leucanthemum, L., he watched it carefully and saw that it was laying eggs upon the buds of this plant. In no case was a full-blown flower visited, the eggs being invariably laid on the small buds, which were from a quarter to three-eights of an inch in diameter. After watching the insect for some time, the three last buds visited werr gathered and the eggs secured.

This subfamily is readily separated from the Mutillinœ by the difference in the abdomen, both sexes having the first segment much narrowed, or petioliform, and separated from the second by a more of less distinct constriction or furrow; it is never broadly sessile with the second as in the Mutillinœ.

Culex Dupreei, new species,— Female. Near serratus, but much smaller, the white-scaled median vitta of the mesonotum broader, widening posteriorly where it is wider than the brown lateral portion, etc. Black, the bases of antennæ, lower part of pleura, the metantotum, basal portion of venter, coxæ, and femora yellowish; scales of palpi black, those of occiput white, and with a spot to black ones each side; scales of middle of mesonotum white, those on the sides brown, on the pleura and scutellum white; scales of abdomen brown, those in the basal angels of the segments and on the venter white; scales of femora yellowish, those on front side of first two pairs, and on apical portion of upper side of hind ones, chiefly brown, those of tibiæ and tarsi brown; tarsal claws toothed; wings hyaline, lateral scales of the veins narrow and liner, petiole of first submarginal cell about one-third the length of that cell, hind crossvein about its length from the small; length, slightly over 2 mm.

♀. — Length about 8 mm., black, with distinct narrow white hairbands on abdomen. Middle of anterior margin of clypeus curved upwards, presenting a point from which the sides slope gently for some distance, and then abruptly nearly vertically, the whole, seen from beneath, having about the outline of a low house seen from one end; some distance on each side of this structure is a low projection of the margin. In general, the insect looks just like Ashmeadiella bucconis, but the second tooth of the mandibles is short, and the front and vertex are as densely punctured as it is possible for them to be. The last joint of the labial palpus is conspicuously longer than the penultimate one.

While arranging the flies of this family contained in the Garry de N. Hough collection of the University of Chicago, together with my own material, a number of notes have been made, which are here given. This family, like a number of other dipterous groups, needs monographic study owing to the confused and scattered descriptions of most of the forms. Of recent years the number of genera has been multiplied, although the authors have neglected to sift out the older species belonging to these new groups. Accordingly, the older genera, like Sargus for example, contain species of several of the modern subdivisions.

From Science we learn that the following Entomological appointments have been recently made:

Mr. S. I. Kuwana, M. S. (Leland-Standord University), has been appointed Entomologist at the Central Agricultural Experimental Station, Nishigahara, Tokyo, Japan. His special studies have been devoted to scale insects, and he has monographed the Japanese Coccidæ, so far as the species are at present known.