GO THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



inner spines rather blunt ; wings violaceous, sub-hyaline, less obscure at 

 apex, a large darker spot below stigma covering marginal and the upper 

 half of all the submarginal cells ; under wings with but one middle cell. 



Maine, N. Hampshire, Connecticut, New York, N. W. Ter. (Say), 

 Illinois, English River (Smithsonian Institution). 



This is probably the same with H. pcctoralis, Leach, from which it 

 differs only in the color of the wings and the black ovipositor sheaths, 

 which Say calls the " tail black." 



Cat. of the Tenthredinidae and Uroceridae of N. Am., by Edward 

 Norton, from Trans, of Am, Ent. Soc. 1867-9, page 40. 



It was not till the first week in August that the insect appeared in its 

 natural haunts. At that time I found, along the St. Louis Road, great 

 numbers of the flies which had been trodden under foot by the passers 

 by. These flies were somewhat larger than those I had succeeded in 

 raising ; but there could be no doubt as to the identity of species. This 

 autumn the larvse have been again abundant, but not more so, as far as I 

 can judge, than they were last year. 



THE COCCID^ IN THE MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE 

 ZOOLOGY, CAMBRIDGE, MASS. 



BY DR. H. A, HAGEN. 



Having newly arranged the Coccidse of our collection, which have 

 been named by Prof. J. H. Comstock, I compared them with the Pro- 

 fessor's Catalogue for 1883, and ascertained the presence of two-thirds of 

 the 168 numbers enumerated. I find that only 27 N. Amer. species are 

 wanting. Among the insects received in the collection of the Peabody 

 Academy is Lccaniiim tilice, A, Fitch, from Mt, Carroll, 111., by Mr. 

 Shimer, very probably identical with A. Fitch's species, and Lecanium 

 tulipiferce, Cook, by typical specimens. A certain number is not yet 

 determined, also the later accessions have not been put in the collection. 

 There are some European types of importance. Two of Prof Ratze- 

 burg's are not published ; C. variolosus is believed by Prof. Comstock to 

 be the No. 122^ A qucrcico/a, Bouche' ; the other is C. conchatus^ both 

 from the European oak. I am always eager to make the collection of 

 this family more complete. Perhaps it is not out of place to say that the 

 Phytoptocecidia in the collection has been enlarged by European and 

 American species. 



