60 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST, 



DIPTERA. 



Tipida sp., Micawber Mine, Aug. 7. 



Musca domestica L., near Micawber Mine, Aug. 6. 



Culex sp., Lakes of the Clouds, 1887. 



Various other species of Diptera, etc., as well as some Trichoptera, 

 and species of Thrips and Tomocerus (pwhsihly p/umdeus L.), and many 

 Aphides, are as yet undetermined. The Arachnida are represented by 

 Epeira and Misumena (probably vatia), and Phalangodes robusta Pack, 

 was found near the Micawber Mine, this being the highest altitude known 

 for this species. The Myriapoda are represented by species oi Lithobius 

 Geopliilus and JtiJus, and most interesting of all, Polydesmu^ was found 

 near the Micawber Mine. 



Bibliography. — The only species hitherto recorded from 10,000 feet, 

 or above, on the Sangre de Cristo Range, seem to be Parnassins, 

 Gnophaela, Breiithis and Bombus. But some not very distinct ranges 

 have been explored. Many species are recorded from Veta Pass, and 

 Mr. Scudder has written (Appalachia, 1878) on the insects of Sierra Blanca, 

 and Mr. W. S. Foster has collected Lepidoptera on Marshall Pass. 



CORRESPONDENCE. 



RARE CAPTURES. 



Deal- Sir : — When in London last winter, 1 assisted in naming the 

 private collection of Mr. Rowland Hill, our present young curator. As 1 

 was going over his material, my attention was arrested by the unfamiliar 

 look of a few specimens he had secured the season before ; they had a 

 resemblance to a familiar enough form — Lachnosterna — but much smaller, 

 and I concluded that I had seen it before. After several ineffectual 

 efforts to secure its name, I sent a specimen to Dr. Hamilton, Allegheny, 

 and he has identified it as Cyclocephala immaculata Burm., and remarks 

 that " this species is widely distributed from Ohio to West Mexico, but I 

 never heard of its being taken in the Northern States, east of North- 

 western Ohio." I have also been in communication with Prof. Fernald, 

 and I copy the following from his reply : — " No. 2 is Pcedisca nisella 

 CI., a European species never before reported in the United States." 



J. Alston Moffat, Hamilton, Ont. 



Mailed March 1st. 



