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The writer hopes that Mr. Buckton's figures of species of these two 

 genera may induce naturalists in South America to make a special 

 effort to solve this deeply interesting problem. The observer should 

 keep a very open mind and not neglect effects produced by com- 

 munties of individuals of the same species, nor the possibility that a 

 single Membracid surmounted by the branching appendages of its 

 pronotum may resemble a combination of two quite different forms, 

 such as an ant or spider attacking or carrying its insect prey." 



I will confess that they fooled me but I must confess, also, to a 

 doubt as to Cyphonias having this bizarre thorax for the purpose of 

 deception. — F. E. Lutz. 



Erebus odora. — A much battered male specimen of this species of 

 moth was taken in the ferry house on the D. L. and W. R. R. at 

 Hoboken, N. J., July 24, 1906. — Wm. P. Comstock. 



A Symmetrically Deformed Dragonfly.^ — On the 5th of July, 1908, 

 a number of specimens of LihcUula incesta Hagen, were collected on 

 the shores of Lake Hopatcong, N. J. In this species both fore and 

 hind wings are usually about 40 mm. in length, but among those 

 collected at the time mentioned, there was an individual with the first 

 pair each 40 mm. and the hind pair each 35 mm. in length. The 

 insect was thus quite symmetrically though unnaturally developed, 

 and able to fly as well as any of its companions. — Wm. T. Davis. 



Exochomus scapularis. — This species, described by Gorham in the 

 Biologia, has been found by Mr. H. A. Wenzel in the Huachuca 

 Mts., Arizona, the date being July 24. His specimens have the 

 elytra black, with a faint greenish tinge, and with a large, internally 

 rounded, red humeral spot, which reaches almost to the scutellum on 

 the base, and beyond the middle on the lateral margin. The posterior 

 margin is also narrowly red. On account of the laminate expansion 

 of the tibia, this species should be placed with ari^onica in the sub- 

 genus Arawana. — C. W. Leng. 



Sphaeridium bipustulatum Fabr. — In Canadian Entomologist, Vol. 

 XLIII, p. 254, I recorded the occurrence of this European species on 

 Long Island, and since then a few other records have come to my 

 notice. While spending a few days with Colonel Robinson at West 

 Point, I noticed in his collection a single specimen of this species 



