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Habitat. British Columbia, Oregon, California, Mexico (.Say), 

 from Orizaba southward (Honi) ; Lower California. 



Agrihis macer Lee., represented as occurring here in western 

 Pennsylvania (Can. Entom. xxviii, 263) is not, according to Dr. 

 Horn, that species to which, however, it is closely related.. The 

 broad band of white pubescence on the side margins of the tho- 

 rax in conjunction with the emarginate projecting carina of the 

 pygidium and other features mentioned (/. c. ) will readily distin- 

 guish it when found. 



Pleurophorus ventralis Horn has been recently described (Tr. 

 Am. Ent. Soc. xiv, 92) from two examples, one from Ontario, 

 Canada, the other from Washington, D. C. I have lately seen 

 another from Westmoreland County, Pa., taken near St. Vincent 

 by Rev. P. Jerome Schmitt. Were its habits known it might 

 not prove so rare. The peculiarities of this species are that the 

 first three ventral segments are acutely carinate along the middle 

 and the fourth and fifth widely, deeply, circularly emarginate at 

 base, the emargination being occupied by membrane. The inner 

 five striae of the elytra are deeply impressed to the apical margin, 

 whereas in all the other species of the Aphodiidae, according to 

 Dr. Horn, so far as now known the fourth and fifth striae do not 

 attain the apex, being incarcerated by the conjunction of the 

 fourth and sixth intervals. 



Phytodecta scutellaris || Sahb. Coleop. Vega Exp. p. 55 (sep- 

 arat}. This species, by some oversight, was placed under Phyl- 

 lodecta in the Catalogue of the Coleoptera of Alaska (Tr. Am. 

 Ent. Soc. xxi, 32). Phytodecta Kirby is older than Gonioctena 

 Redt., and should be used for the latter name, as is done in the 

 latest European catalogue. P. scute/laris \\ occurred on the shore 

 of Behring Strait. 



Microscapha arctica Horn was described (Tr. Am. Ent. Soc. 

 xx, 144) from two examples taken at Fort Wrangel, Alaska. 

 Three examples from Graham, one of the Queen Charlotte Is- 

 lands, and one from British Columbia have lately come to hand 

 more fully representing the species. The types were .09 inch, 

 jn length and " ferruginous brown;" the present are respectively 

 .08, .09, .10 and .11 inch, long; the j two smaller (one from B. C.) 



