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often seen labelled " Phylloptera oblotigifolia " in local collections. The 

 true oblo7igifolia is distinctly confined to the south-western portion of 

 Ontario, and although I have nevei collected at Ottawa nor at Montreal, 

 from which it is also reported by Caulfield, I consider it extremely 

 improbable that the species has ever been taken so far north. 



Localities: Point Pelee, Aug. 8, 1901 ; Arner, Essex Co., Aug. 9, 

 1901 ; Rondeau, Sept. 14, 1899; Walpole Id., River St. Clair, Aug. 13, 

 1901 ; Niagara River, Aug. 14, 1904, Sept. 25, 1898 ; Hamilton, Sept. 

 23, 1898 ; Toronto. 



Sub-family PsEUDOPHYLLiNiE. 



6. Cyrtophyllus perspicillatus, L. The True Katydid. 



Gryllus perspiciliattis, L., Cent. Ins. Rar., 1763, 15. 



Cy?-tophylhis perspicillatus, Brunn., Handb. der Ent., II., 1838, 697. 



Flatyphyllum concavum, Harr., Ins. Inj. Veg., 1862, 158. 



Cyrtophyllus concavus, Scudd., Post. Journ. Nat. Hist., VII., 1862, 

 444. 



This well-known insect has been but once reported from Ontario by 

 Caulfield (Ann. Rep. Ent. Soc. Ont., 1887, 70). It was taken at London 

 at an electric light. I have been told that it is common at Niagara, but I 

 have never met with it anywhere in the Province, although I am pretty 

 sure I heard its song at Morpeth, Kent Co., on Lake Erie, Sept. 7, 1899. 

 I had often heard it before at Yonkers, N. Y. 



(To be continued.) 



THE BEE-GENUS APISTA, AND OTHER NOTES. 



BY T. D. A. COCKERELL, BOULDER, COLORADO. 



The genus Apista was proposed by F. Smith in 186 1, to contain the 

 species Apista opalina, Sm., which was described from a single female 

 from Ega, Brazil. So far as I know, the specimen is still unique. In 

 Dalla Torre's Catalogue the genus is placed just after Melipona. which is 

 the reason, no doubt, why Schrottky says nothing about it in his work on 

 the solitary bees of Brazil. Ashmead, in his tables, places it in the 

 Andrenidae, and I have no doubt that this is its correct position. The 

 following notes are from the type in the British Museum : 



Looks very much like a Ligurian (or Italian) honey-bee ; the 

 fasciation of the abdomen, to which Ashmead refers, is inconspicuous, 

 consisting merely of a dense ciliar fringe on the hind margins of segments 

 I to 4, very narrow and pale yellowish in colour ; the abdomen is testa- 



