June, 1916.] Miscellaneous Notes. 153 



MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 



The Occurrence of Archips infumatana Zell. in the Eastern United 

 States. — It seems strange that a moth of such comparatively large 

 size and conspicuous richness and beauty of coloring, and one so long 

 known to science as the Tortricid in question, should so rarely have 

 been referred to in print. Yet so far as I have been able to discover 

 the literature contains but three or four citations of this species, 

 and those are quite meager. Archips infumatana was described by 

 Zeller in 1875 in Verb. k. k. Zool. Bot. Ges. Wien, XXV, p. 216, 

 from two pair taken in Missouri. In Fernald's Catalogue of the 

 Tortricidse of North America north of Mexico its habitat is given as 

 Missouri and Wisconsin, and the same localities are cited in Dyar's 

 List. But hitherto there has been no record of the species from 

 east of the Mississippi Valley. Such a record I am now able to 

 supply. On the 28th of July, 191 5. at Litchfield, Conn., this purple- 

 and-brown-shaded Archips was found in considerable numbers cling- 

 ing to the leaves of a lusty young hickory, evidently just emerged 

 from web-nests spun on its branches. An examination of the ma- 

 terial in the American Museum of Natural History brings to light 

 two female specimens labelled N. Y., and in Mr. Kearfott's collection 

 is a male taken by Mr. Chas. R. Ely, July 14, 1909, at East River, 

 Conn. In view of the above it becomes highly probable that the 

 moth has a general wide distribution coterminous with the range 

 of its food-plant, hickory. — Lewis B. Woodruff. 



Notes on Malachidse. — While going over our collections in this 

 family of beetles with Messrs. Leng and Mutchler the writers of this 

 note found that certain interesting additions could be made to the 

 local records. 



Collops vittatus Say. Staten Island, N. Y., June 25, and Cedar- 

 hurst, Long Island, N. Y., June 29, 1904. This species is not men- 

 tioned in the last New Jersey list, which included Staten Island 

 records. 



Collops sublimbatus Schaeffer. This species was described from 

 Clayton, Rabun Co., Ga., from specimens collected near the top of 

 Black Rock Mt. It is said to closely resemble C. georgianus Fall, 

 (see Can. Entomologist, June, 1912, p. 187). Specimens with "'the 



