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ITHYCERUS NOVEBORACENSIS, FORST. 

 In former years I had found this beetle, the largest and most con- 

 spicuous weevil of our fauna, to occur only upon beeches, as noted in my 

 sketch of the Rhyncophora, in Eleventh Annual Report. Such, also, was 

 Mr. Chittenden's record [Ent. Am., Vol. VI., i68J. Its infestation of the 

 twigs of oak had been recorded by Riley, who described the larva. 

 Its occurrence upon hickory is noted by Mr. Beutenmuller [Can. Ent., 

 XXII. , 201], and it is known as injurious to apple and other fruit trees. 

 On June glh, 1895, I observed a pair in coitu upon the trunk of a hickory 

 (Carya amara), where there were no beech trees near by, and on care- 

 fully examining other hickories in the immediate vicinity I found five 

 more pairs. Two or three days later I examined the same trees and 

 could not detect a single beetle, nor did I find any on subsequent 

 examinations. This shows that missing the exact date for such an insect 

 might lead to its escaping observation entirely, as those trees had been 

 examined m former years. W. Hague Harrington. 



A CORRECTION. 



For the new genus of Megalopygid^e, Brachycodion, described in the 

 last volume of Can. Ent., read Aidos, Hiibn. The genus is not in Kirby's 

 Catalogue, and I thus came to overlook it. The following is the 

 synonymy : — 



Genus Aidos, Hilbner. 



1818. Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett., p. 191, No, 1^62, BrachycodioJi, 

 Dyar. 



1895. Dyar, Can. Ent., XXVII., 244. 



Type A. ainatida, StoU. 



I must apologize for this synonym by hastening to correct it. 



Harrison G. Dyar. 



Through the kind consideration of Mr. A. R. Grote, the Society has 

 been put in possession of his paper on the Apatelidae, noticed by Dr. H. G. 

 Dyar, in Can. Ent., Vol. XXVIII.. p. 86 ; also, the original photographs of 

 the plates, beautifully executed, and greatly admired by all who see them. 

 The form and ornamentation are displayed with remarkable life-like 

 distinctness, even to the tubercles and rounded bodies of the laivse, which 

 are somewhat lost on the plates, but well defined in the photos, testifying 

 to the great advance that has been made in this method of illustrating 

 entomology since Mr. Grote first adopted it twenty years ago. 



J. Alston Moffat. 



