Some two years ago I received from Rev. L. C. Biggs, H.B.M. Chaplain at Penang, a parcel of insects collected by Mr. F. G. Durnford in Sungei-Ujong. Among them was a speciment the envelope containing which was labelled Charaxes Durnfordi, n. sp. Mr.Biggs, in sending the lot, called attention to this particular specimen in his note, saying: “It looks as if it were covered with mildew, which Durnford assures me is really fluff detached at the time of its capture.” I did not examine the specimen ver particularly at the time of its receipt, except to note that it was covered with a whitish mealy deposit, particularly thick upon the abdomen, and that it was not a Charaxes.

Cicindela punctulata Fab. The Cicindelas are generally regarded as diurnal, many of them appearing only during the hottest sunshine and disappearing if there comes but a cloud. In one respect punctulata is an exception, for while it flies by day like the others, it is occasionally (if not habitually) a night-flier. Several times late in summer it has been taken on my table at night, attracted by the light, and last autumn in a house in the outskirts of the city I took in this way a couple, and was told that what was considered the same insect was a frequent vistior. This habit I think is not unknown.

Only seven species of this family of Orthoptera are as yet known from Texas. More species must occur along the southern border, but so little attention has been paid to this family that it may be long before the fauna is fairly well known. Perhaps the publication of this list may help to swell the number. One species is described more fully than ever before for readier identification.

For the last two seasons I have turned my attention more particularly to collecting the Hemiptera; and very naturally became deeply interested in the family of the Phytocoridæ, or Capsidæ, as they are generally called. They are the most distinctively northern family of the Heteroptera, as the Jassidæ are of the Homoptera; but they seem to have been neglected by European as well as American Entomologists, probably because of the variability of the species, and their frail structure which makes them difficult of preservation.

On May 23rd of the past year (1886) I again found Physonota helianthi, Rand., on its food plant (Helianthus decapetalus) in the same locality as in the previous year. The insects were now in the spring, or what I would call their nuptial dress, and were entirely of a bright golden green, with the exception of the margin, which is transparent with pearly reflections. In the fall dress the elytra are black, irregularly spotted with white, the thorax white with five black spots. In the spirng dress the thorax is concolorous with the elytra, and bears only three black spots, the anterior double spot being entirely absent.

In my own collection I labelled a form in which a slight dentation of the terminal band on primaries was perceptible (and which in this respect agreed with Boisduval's figure in the Species General, and with Abbot's of fuciformis) as H. diffinis. It differed from tenuis by a greater breadth of band, a perceptible apical stain, a somewhat brighter or ore yellow haired body. Whether this was Mr. Strecker's Aettira, I Knew not, since I was unacquainted with this author's work, having seen only his numbers on occasion.