40 Journal New York Entomological Society. [^'°'- xxiv, 



the name of a collector or of a locality, and Washington, D. C. By 

 thus eliminating Washington, D. C, from the distribution data for 

 the species Sphccerodenis nitidicollis, the phrase " vom Atlantischen 

 Ozean " loses part of its foundation. 



The treatment of this species as one occurring from the Atlantic 

 Ocean to West Virginia and northward to Hudson Bay, with but one 

 sub-species in its range of variation is contrary to the descriptions of 

 Chevrolat, Chaudoir, and Leconte ; and cannot be satisfactorily ap- 

 plied to the specimens at hand. The catalogue on page 274 should 

 read: 



1. nitidicollis Chevrolat, 1848. 

 Subsp. brevoorti LeConte, 1848. 



granulosus Chaudoir, 1861. 



nitidicollis G. H. Horn, 1878, ex parte. 



2. schaumii Chaudoir, 1861. 



The first was described from Newfoundland and occurs there 

 only. In recent years many specimens have been collected by W. S. 

 Genung. L. P. Gratacap, P. G. Bolster, G. P. Engelhardt and myself; 

 they are uniform in size and color and show no tendency to intergrade 

 with the other two. 



The second was described from Maine, and occurs at Lake Su- 

 perior, according to Mr. Blanchard's report on the Leconte collection, 

 and near the summit of Whiteface Mt., in northern New York, where 

 it has been found by the writer. It is highly probable that granu- 

 losus of Chaudoir is identical, as stated by Dr. Roeschke, and that 

 all the northern localities, Hudson Bay, White Mts. of New Hamp- 

 shire, perhaps even Canada, cited by him, are inhabited by this 

 species. As to the more southerly localities cited, I have never seen 

 any hrcvoorti, correctly determined, from such ; and, being convinced 

 that Dr. G. H. Horn confused the more roughly sculptured forms of 

 lecontei with hrcvoorti, as indicated by his remark that every inter- 

 grade of sculpture could be found, I suspect that the specimens on 

 which Dr. Roeschke's citations of Virginia, West Virginia, and Char- 

 leroi were based were not hrcvoorti at all, but rough forms of lecontei 

 erroneously identified by Horn or his followers. 



The third {schaumii) was described from Ohio, and has been 

 found in recent years by R. J. Sims in the northern part of that 

 state and distributed by him or by Charles Dury. The citations of 



