fHE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



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elytra furnished with flying hairs. Rather 

 variable in size, .18-27 i"-" It was taken by 

 Mr. Caulfield, emerging from a barrel of 

 some kind of dye. The species is supposed 

 to have been introduced from Europe. It 

 has been bred from white birch. 



Phvton, Newm. 



A small pale insect, P. palltdujn, Say, 



belongs here, and is perhaps doubtfully a 



true member of the Canadian fauna. It is 



a trifle under one-fourth of an inch long, of 



a yellowish colour, the prothorax broad in 



front of the middle, but narrowed in front 



and (much more so) behind, the surface with 



indefinite darker markings. Elytra with 



four oblique brownish bands, of which the 



one just behind the middle is broad, the 



remainder narrow. I have beaten it from 



palmetto blossoms in Louisiana. It has been bred from hickory and 



from Cercis canadensis. 



Obrium, Serv. 



The only Canadian form is O. rubrum, Newm., which is one-fourth 

 of an inch in length, shining reddish-testaceous, the head broader than the 

 prothorax, which bears an obtuse dilatation each side near the middle, and 

 has the base and apex nearly equal. The elytra are more closely punc- 

 tured than the thorax. Thighs strongly clubbed. 



Fig. 22. 



NOTES ON PHIL^NUS. 



BY CARL F. BAKER, AUBURN, ALABAMA, 



Fhilcenus sputnarius, L. — From various localities in the New 

 England States I have large series of the typical form of this species, and 

 also specimens representing the well-marked varieties, leiicocephala, L., 

 and lineata, Fabr. 



Fhilcenus abjectus, Uhl. — A portion at least of the material recorded 

 under Lepyronia angulifera in the Prelim. List Hemip. Colo, belongs to 

 this species. I have taken it at Fort Collins, Colo., and in the adjacent 

 foothills, in May and June. The specimens from this locality are uni- 

 formly darker than the type. 



