THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 269 



A. KiNCAIDlI, Ckll. 



This species varies like Synhalonia Edwardsii, Cr. (see paper by 

 Cockerell, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sc, Sep. '97, page 347), but owing to the 

 unsatisfactory nature and variability of the differences I have not named 

 the races into which it falls. 



(i) i:)'\>\c2i\ Kincaidii. Seattle, Wash. 3 ?: Vancouver Is., B. C, 

 2 9 (July I and July 5); Moscow, Idaho, i ?. This has the abdomen 

 more ovate in $ . 



(2) A geographical race. Pullman, Wash. 3 9 . Abdomen sub- 

 depressed in 9 • 



My male specimens are all from Seattle and Vancouver. The only 

 differences they show is in colour of pubescence as mentioned by Cock- 

 erell in the original description. 

 A. PERARMATA, Ckll. (in ed.) 



I have males from Seattle, Wash. (Feb. 16- Mch. 14), and females 

 from Seattle (March 13-14), and Vancouver Is. (Apr. 20). 



Aphilanthops Bakeri. 



$ . The " lobes " in the co-types take the form of dentations in a 

 larger series. Third joint antennje as long or almost as long as joints 

 4-5 combined. The first abdominal segment is a little coarser in punc- 

 tuation than the rest. Sometimes a yellow spot is on the mesothorax in 

 front of the tegulae. 



9. Differs. from $ in larger ^size (12-13 mm.), face with three 

 broad yellow stripes (not all yellow), clypeus 5-dentate. Montana and 

 Colorado, Coll. Amer. Ent. Soc. and Colo. (Baker 2044). The 9 is 

 much like frigidus ; the $ shows differences, however. 



DIASPIS AMYGDALI, Tryon. 



BY C. P. LOUNSBURY, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, CAPE TOWN, AFRICA. 



The article on Diaspis amygdali, Tryon, by Professor Webster, in 

 the April issue of this magazine, has left me with the impression that 

 the introduction of this insect to several widely separated sections of the 

 United States has not aroused the apprehension among American ento- 

 mologists that the advent of a pest of its importance justifies. The 

 quotation from Mr. Tryon's letter to the effect that the insect is neither 

 widely distribued nor destructive in Queensland is too reassuring. It 

 constrains me to emphasize the fact that the species is a highly injurious 



