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MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 



Charles W. Leng, Secretary of the New York Entomological So- 

 ciety and Research Associate in the American Museum of Natural 

 History, has heen appointed Director of the Museum of the Staten 

 Island Institute of Arts and Sciences. Mr. Leng has heen interested 

 in the natural history of Staten Island, where he was born and lives, 

 since boyhood. Entomologists and other naturalists, visiting New 

 York City, can reach the Museum of the Institute by a pleasant half 

 hour's sail across the bay on the Staten Island ferry and thus inspect 

 the collections in all orders that have been accumulated. 



Edmund H. Gibson has resigned his position with the U. S. Bureau 

 of Entomology and is entering upon a new field of endeavor for 

 himself. Believing that entomology can be put on a dignified pro- 

 fessional business basis the same as law, medicine, engineering, etc., 

 he is taking the initial step and believes that after a certain amount 

 of pioneering work the field should open up to other entomologists. 

 Mr. Gibson's headquarters, for the time being, will be Alexandria, 

 Virginia. His professional card is worded " Consulting Entomologist 

 and Agricultural Engineer." 



Additions and Corrections to the Review of the Genus Buprestis in 

 North America. — Buprestis viridisuturalis Xicolay and Weiss (Jour. 

 N. Y. Ent. Soc., Vol. XXVI, p. 101). Mr. H. E. Burke informs us 

 that this species breeds in cottonwood and Mr. Ralph Hopping also 

 informs us that in addition to cottonwood, he has found it breeding 

 in alder, and that it occurs at less than 1,000 feet elevation and at 

 4,500 feet in such interior valleys as the Yosemite of the South Fork 

 of Kings River. 



Buprestis connexa Horn. The record of this species from Gains- 

 ville, Florida (Ent. X'ews, 1918, Vol. XXIX, p. 331) is an error. 

 This very rare species is confined to the North Western United States 

 (Oregon, California, Nevada, Idaho). 



Buprestis fasciata Fabricius. In the key to the species of Bupres- 

 tis (Jour. N. Y. Ent. Soc, Vol. XXVI, p. 81, second line from top), 

 the word " usually " should precede " internally " and " armed " in 

 order to admit this species and its variety langi Mann. — A. S. Nico- 

 lay and H. B. Weiss. 



