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This bee collects puncn iioiu tiic tiuwcrs of Petaloitemum x'lllosum 

 ( Lei^uminoifr). There are two western species, /'. /*^r/a///V/<j Ckll , and 

 P. wootonce Ckll., which arc tvidenily exiremely close to P. citrittelUt, but 

 which collect pollen from different plant?. The three seem to be very un- 

 stable in their colour characters, ihey have probably originated from the 

 same ancestral form within comparatively recent times, and the fact that 

 they visit different flowers in the regions where they have been observed, 

 so far, does not exclude the possibility of their belonging to one species 

 only. Ilalictouies Novtzanglm for cximple obtains pollen at Waldoboro, 

 Maine, from the flowers of Pontfi/erin cordata only, as reported by ^fr. 

 John H. Lovell (Psyche XIII, p. 1 12), at Milwaukee and at Cedar Lake, 

 Washington Co., Wis. (about 30 miles north west of Milwaukee). I have 

 never seen it collecting pollen from the flowers of any other plant but 

 Monarda fistulosa, and in IJurncit Co. in the north-western part of 

 Wisconsin I repeatedly saw it visiting the flowers of Agaitache fctn'tculum 

 for the same purpose. 



(To be continued.) 



A CORRF.CTIO.V. 



In the January number of ilie Canadian KMOMoi.otiisT, p. S, the 

 late Mr. C). W. Kirkaldy corrected some jjreoccupied generic names in 

 insects. Among these he i)roposed Americida for Dryope Ch , the latter 

 name being preoccupied in Diptera and Crustacea. However, Mr. Karl 

 R. Coolidge had already proposed Dryof>eria for Dryope Chamb. See 

 Kntomological News, Vol. X.\. p. wz. — \S . (I. Dikt/. 



Esperanto, the international language, if it has not done so before, 

 has at last invaded the entomological field. Mr. Tor Helliesen, of the 

 Museum in Stavanger, Norway, has just published a list of Coleoplera 

 new to that country, and has added a resume in Esperanto. — H. S. 

 Saunders. 



