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SO as to be either inwardly or outwardly oblique. A broader, diffuse 

 dark median shade, which is usually just at or a little within the middle 

 of both costal and inner margins, and therefore inwardly oblique. T. p. 

 line incepted by a whitish oulcurved mark on the costa, then obscurely 

 traceable across the wing as a crenulated dusky line, more or less 

 emphasized by outward, pale defining scales. S. t. line irregular, whitish, 

 tending to become lost. The reniform is vaguely indicated by a dusky 

 blotch in some examples. Secondaries dull grayish white, with a smoky 

 tinge which forms a broad sub-basal and a yet broader extra median dark 

 band, the inner margins of each diffuse. Between these bands is a 

 narrower, better defined blackish line. There is also a broken, dark 

 terminal line. Beneath, both wings whitish, powdered with blackish 

 scales, with irregular and variable transverse dark bandings and shades; 

 the primaries with a discal spot. 



Expands: .75-. 82 inches =19-21 mm. Habitat: New Brighton, 

 Penna., July 20-Aug. 2 (H. D. Merrick) ; Chicago, Ills,, July 12 (A. 

 Kwiat). 



Eight examples, six of them males, are before me. All were received 

 from Mr. Merrick, and all save one are of his collecting. Most of the 

 examples are good, and far above the average for species in this group. 



In size and general appearance this resembles lotundalis, and I have 

 little doubt I have so determined it from single examples; but I had none 

 like it in my own material. The occurrence of a suflicient number to 

 make comparisons shows a species tending to the cemula type of macula- 

 tion with a remarkably even basal and median transverse shade. 



Aphodius Erraticu.s, Linn., at Halifax, N. S. — In the Canadian 

 Entomologist for last year (Vol. 36, p. 164) Mr. Charles Stevenson 

 mentions the fact of Aphodius erratiais, Linn., having been taken by 

 his son on Montreal Island, and states that he can find no previous record 

 of its being taken in Canada. 



When I was in Halifax in 1897,1 took a number of specimens of this 

 insect, and the list of Coleoptera taken in Halifax that year is given in 

 the Canadian Entomologist, Vol. 31, p. 321, where the above mentioned 

 name will be found. 



John D. Evans, Trenton. 



[Mr. Evans has very kindly ])resented some specimens of this beetle 

 to the Society's collection, and also a number of other species of Coleoptera 

 from the Northwest and British Columbia, which are very acceptable 

 indeed.] 



