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me he has a specimen from San Diego, California, answering 

 well to the description and figure. Mr. Wright states that he 

 has not much faith in it. It is unsatisfactory to leave it thus, 

 and if the type could be obtained for one of the big American 

 museums a good service would be done thereby. 



EXPLANATION OF PLATE V. (Published in the March Issue). 



Male genitalia of species of Everes. 



Fig. i. Everes argiadcs. profile view. 



Fig. 2. E. coretas, profile view. 



Figs. 3-5. E. comyntas, profile view: 3, Michigan; 4, Fort Wingate, 

 New Mexico, note the extreme size, also development of clasps ; 5, 

 Jamesburg, N. Jersey, semi-vertical view. 



Figs. 6-10. E. amyntula, profile view: 6, Utah; 7, San Diego, Cali- 

 fornia (note the large size of the genital organs) ; 8, Calgary, clasps 

 profile, tegumen half turned around showing vertically ; 9, Aweme, 

 Manitoba, semi-vertical view ; 10, Vancouver, profile view (note the 

 somewhat stouter hooks to the clasp, being in this respect midway be- 

 tween argiadcs and coretas. 



Fragments from an Entomological Diary, Texas, 

 1904. Appearance of Insects in Spring. 



By A. A. GIRAULT, Nelson (Cairns), North Queensland, Aus- 

 tralia. 



At Sherman. Texas, January 29, insects were dormant, ex- 

 cepting a few flies. At Houston, on the following day, though 

 warm and springlike and farther south, the same conditions 

 prevailed, a few flies only on the wing and active ; a cluster of 

 wasps found hibernating under the loose bark of a dead tree 

 stump ; they could walk but were unable to fly ; they were 

 Polistes. At Corpus Christi, February first and second, how- 

 ever, insects were active a Diabrotica (i2-punctata) was 

 feeding upon truck crops, an acridid was flying about in a cab- 

 bage patch ; moths and butterflies were seen ; yet the general in- 

 sect population was hibernating. On February 7, at Victoria, 

 additional species of butterflies were observed in the after- 

 noon; Diabrotica \2-punctata was active, but Megilla maculata 

 was hibernating in colonies under the bark of trees. At Cor- 



