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C. qitadripnnctatus Fab., docs not occur in our fauna, although 

 \vc have a representative species in pcrplexns Horn, which ha- a 

 longer thorax and the humeral elytral spots only. 



C. dermestoides Hbst. var. quadriguttatus Lap. -This species 

 is now for the first time recorded in our fauna. It is a small 

 species, thorax rugulose, especially in front; median line smooth, 

 but linear. Elytra with four yellow spots, one on each humeral 

 angle, the other on the middle line of the elytra near the apex. 



Specimens are in my cabinet from Nova Scotia, Maryland 

 (Lugger) and Washington, D. C. (Ulke). 



The true dermestoides has no elytral spots, or very faint indi- 

 cations of them. Three such specimens are known to me from 

 Nevada, northern California and Los Angeles. On the other 

 hand three specimens from the State of Washington are interme- 

 diate in the fact of having a well-marked apical spot but no 

 humeral. 



C. riparius Fab., is said, by Candeze, to occur in our polar 

 regions. He does not state his grounds for this and the species 

 has not been recognized by us. 



Notes and. 



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A ROYAI. ENTOMOLOGIST.- U<-<vnlly the (ir.uul Ihike Nicholas, of 

 Russia, was elected a c< invsp< Hiding member of the Ac, id. N.it. Sci. . >i" 

 Philadelphia, in recognition of his services to Ktitomolo^y. He !-> one 

 of the fe\\ men of science of royal rank, and is editor and p.irt writer of 

 one of the finest works of recent years on Lepidoptera. The work was 

 commenced in iSS.j, and at present consist-, of li\e handsome volumes, 

 the last published recently. They are profuseh illustrated in the most 

 sumptuous manner by tin- best artists of I -in rope. Me has sent out several 

 collecting expeditions under a .n'liard of Cossacks, which tinned up mans 

 new and rare species. The work is entitled " Memoiis sm les I epidop- 



teres rediges," par N. M. Romanoff (Grand Duke Nicholas), of Si Peters- 



boiiri;. The first article is " 1 .es I .epidopteies de la rranscaucasie," b\ 



