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of marginal cell ; abdomen rather narrow, with coarse black hair, except 

 on first segment and anterior middle (tapering laterally) of second, where 

 it is tawny-yellow ; hair of legs black, spinules on tarsi ferruginous. 



H a b, — Calgary, Alberta, British America (F. H. Wolley Dod). 



The coloration of the abdomen is as in B. separatus, which, how- 

 ever, is a Bombias. The insect is probably a race of B. hyperboreus % 

 grcenfandicus, (Smith), but it has the yellow on the abdomen reduced. It 

 is also related to B. pleuralis, Nyl., which Friese makes a subspecies of 

 B. Kirbyellus, Curtis. 



A REMARK ON THE IGNOTUS ^ENIGMATICUS. 



BY PHILIPP ZAITZEV, ST. PETERSBURG, RUSSIA. 



With special interest I read in the pages of this journal, 1908, No. 7, 

 a paper by Mrs. A. T. Slosson, " A Bit of Contemporary History," treating 

 of the habits of one of the most peculiar and interesting representatives of 

 Coleoptera. Nearly all the past year this minute creature attracted my 

 attention, being an uninvited guest at my home. Some of my observa- 

 tions and considerations about this subject I hope to expose on the pages 

 of Revue Russe d'Entomologie in the next issue ; at present I will con- 

 fine myself to the remark that this mysterious stranger of my esteemed 

 entomological colleague is. properly speaking, a very old friend of ours, 

 described and figured in 1839 by V. Motschulsky (Bull. Soc. Nat. Moscou 

 xii., page 76, t. v.; f. 1-6), from Transcaucasia, under the name of Thely- 

 drias contractus. Afterwards this species (without doubt identical will 

 Ignotus cenigmaticus !) was described by Reitter from specimens from 

 the Transcaspian Province and Turkestan, and placed by him, very unfor- 

 tunately, in the group of Driloris (family Cantharodidae). Bestimm ; 

 Tabelle d'Europ. Coleopt, XXIX., 1894. 



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