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lived in Da Costa at one time and G. W. Quinn was a b'rother- 

 in-law of Bland and also lived there. If there are additional 

 specimens (other than the three mentioned) it would be of in- 

 terest to have them placed on record. 



II. THE REDISCOVERY OF PLUSIOTIS WOODII. 



This beautiful species was described by Dr. G. H. Horn in 

 the Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 12, 

 124, 1885, and he speaks of it as follows: 



"Two specimens from the Rio Grande, Texas, collected by 

 my friend, Dr. H. C. Wood, to whom I have great pleasure in 

 dedicating the species. I have seen another specimen in the 

 Museum of the Jardin des Plantes at Paris." 



When I described Plusiotis beyeri in ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 

 16, 289, 1905. 1 endeavored to find out the exact place where 

 ivoodii was taken and wrote to Dr. Wood in regard to the mat- 

 ter. He said he believed the two specimens (male and female 

 types) were taken either at El P'aso or in the valley of the Tor- 

 nillo Creek which runs into the "great bend" of the Rio 

 Grande, Texas. Mr. H. W. Wenzel predicted that the home 

 of woodii would be found to be somewhere in the mountains 

 of southern Texas, and such proves to be the case. A number 

 of specimens in beautiful condition have been obtained by the 

 Wenzel-Green expedition to the Great Bend of the Rio 

 Grande. These specimens were taken July roth, 1911, on Davis 

 Mountain, 5200 ft. altitude in Jeff Davis County, Texas. They 

 were beaten from walnut trees. The specimens agree perfectly 

 with the types in the Horn collection and show no variability 

 and are very distinct from the other species in the genus. The 

 expedition members are Mr. H. A. Wenzel, of Philadelphia, 

 and Mr. J. W. Green, of Easton, Pennsylvania. 



It is extremely interesting to have Plusiotis woodii refound 

 after a period of twenty-six years. The collectors deserve 

 great credit for their enterprise and they will doubtless find 

 many other species of interest in this unexplored region. In 

 addition to woodii they found P. gloriosa, which greatly ex- 

 tends the range of the latter species. 



