88 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



the anterior margin, shining olivaceous ; third segment entirely shining. 

 Legs : femora, except the extreme tips, black ; long white pilose ; tibife 

 testaceous at base, at apex ferrugineous. Tarsi ferrugineous, darker at 

 tips. L., lo^/^ mm. 



One specimen [Fairmont Park, Philadelphia, Pa.], collected by Mr. 

 Chas. I. Greene and kindly transmitted to me by Prof. C. W. Johnson, of 

 the Wagner Institute of that city, to whom I most respectfully dedicate it. 



This species differs from the European C. cenia, Fabr., to which it is 

 allied, in the markings of the abdomen, the absence of the " snow-white 

 style," the general dull colour, and in several other respects ; from the 

 only other described North American species, C. montefisis, Snov/, in not 

 having the face and front black pilose nor the thorax and abdomen golden 

 pilose. Mr. Snow writes me that he has never observed any variation in 

 the colour of the pile in motitensis at all. There are other differences in 

 the coloration of the antennae and legs and in the form of the fourth 

 vein. 



The capture of this insect is deemed worthy of more than passing 

 notice. The species of Callicera are found almost exclusively near the 

 tops of mountains. The only species up to the present time found 

 outside of Europe was C. niontejisis, Snow. The three type specimens 

 were taken on the top of Mt. Deception, in Colorado, at an altitude of 

 9,000 feet. Later, two more specimens were taken on one of the peaks 

 of the Magdalena Mountains, in New Mexico, at an altitude of 9,500 feet, 

 also by Snow. The Species was described by Snow, in Kansas Uni. 

 Quart. Vol. L, p. 33 ; July, 1892. 



In Europe, as far as I have been able to ascertain, there is only one 

 record of the capture of a Callicera except on a mountain top. Prof. 

 Stein has this note in the Berlin Ent. Zeitschr., i860, 325 [translating]: 

 '■'■Callicera fiilva, Schaum. — I captured a female of this species on the first 

 of June, in the vicinity of Frankfurt-a.-d.-O. It was resting on flowering 

 Spartiiim scopariiim^ which was, perhaps, only accidental. A thorough 

 search of the same place eight days later yielded no result." 



The present is, therefore, the second record of the capture of a species 

 of this genus at a remarkably low altitude, the altitude in this case being 

 "considerably lower than that of Frankfort-on-the-Oder, which is about 

 125 feet. Fairmont Park lies on both sides of the Schuylkill River, 

 adjoining Philadelphia on the Northwest, and probably in no place 

 exceeds an altitude of sixty feet. , , 



