146 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Central Kansas east. I have taken at McPherson two or three specimens 

 of an Epitrix that seems to be new. It is closely related to aicuineris^ 

 but is larger, thorax more robust, and elytra and thorax almost entirely 

 ferruginous or testaceous. 



At Alomogordo, N. M., and El Paso, Texas, the r4th to 20th of June, 

 1905, the common Aphodius wsiS. pu7niltis, Horn, one of the smallest in the 

 genus. Among other things, I sent specimens of this species to Mr. 

 Chas. Dury, of Cincinnati, Ohio. He wrote me that he was glad to see 

 the little fellows, as he had collected the type specimen from which Dr. 

 Horn wrote his description more than twenty years ago, about half a mile 

 north of Las Cruces, N. M. One specimen was all he could find, and 

 this he gave to Dr. Horn. 



Aphodius larrea^ Horn, is recorded as being taken by Mr. G. W. 

 Dunn on the plant, Larrea Mexicana^ near El Paso, Texas. I took four 

 specimens of this Aphodius at El Paso, June i8th, 1905. They were not 

 on Larrea^ but were taken where Aphodius with normal appetites would 

 be expected to be found. 



Canthofi vigilatis, Lee, is recorded as being from Kansas, but I 

 never saw a specimen from this State until I took a single one at McPher- 

 son. They are rare in Kansas, this State evidently being the northern 

 limit of range. 



Coelesteihus alternatus, Fall, is described by the author in his revision 

 of the Ptinidce, from three specimens, two of which were taken by Prof 

 T. D. A. Cockerell with the locality Wootens, N. M. Last June I took 

 two specimens of this species by beating, near Cloudcroft, on the summit 

 of the Sacramento Mountains, nine thousand feet above sea level. 

 Wootens is down Fresnal Canon about four miles, and is two thousand 

 feet lower in altitude. 



June 14th to 17th, 1905, a new Dichelonycha, iestaceipemiis, Fall 

 <'MS.), occurred plentifully from Cloudcroft to Wootens, being easily 

 secured by beating scrub oak, young pines and firs, wild roses and 

 willows. I collected over the same ground two years before, and at the 

 same time in the month, but did not see a single Dichelonycha, 



This season I took several specimens of a fine large Embaphion, 

 which will be described as new by Dr. F. E. Blaisdell, under the name of 

 contractiitn, on the summit near Cloudcroft, N. M. Two seasons before I 

 collected over the same ground on the same dates (June 12th to 17th) as 

 this year, but did not see an Embaphion. 



