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the British Museum and has received the following report from Mr. C. O. Water, 

 house : "I have carefully examined the Cassida you send, and I am sure it is our 

 common thistle species C. viridis." Mr. Winn reports that it was conunon in all 

 stages at Levis, Que., on Aug. 21, feeding upon dock and thistle. 



Mordella served. Say. St. John, July 24, (Mcintosh). 

 , Mordella borealis, Lee. St. John, (Mcintosh). Both this and M. nerval are rare species. 



Corphyra inconspicim, Horn. A specimen of this Californian species was taKen at Vernon 

 by Mr. Venables. 



Calopiis aspersKs, Lee. Vernon, (Venables). 



Rhinomacer pilosus, Lee. St. John, June 9, Mcintosh). 



Myodites scaber, Lee. Vernon, (Venables). 



Myodites zeschii, Lee. St. John, (Mcintosh). Abundant in the beginning of Julj on the 

 buds of Solidago at Nepigon, (Fletcher). 



Peritelopsis globiventris, Lee. Vernon, (Venables). 



Geoderces melanothrix, Kirby. St. John, June 23, (Mcintosh). 



Phytonomus putictatua, Fab. Victoria, July, (Hanham). This Clover Weevil has appar- 

 ently spread to the Pacific province and is there in considerable numbers. Mr. Han- 

 ham writes that during the last week in July he took 100 specimens on his tennis 

 lawn from pieces of board put there for the purpose of trapping insects, and he could 

 collect specimens at any time during the season by the same method. He saw no 

 sign of the fungous disease which usually controls this insect in the east. 



Gryphidius equiseti, Fab. St. John, July 8, (Mclntoshj. 



Lixelhhs filiformis, Lee. and Lixus rubellus, Rand. Appear to be quite common on plants 

 growingat the edge of a lake in Mount St. Hilaire, Que. The former is often found on 

 weeds emerging only a few inches from the water, and growing sometimes forty or 

 fifty feet from the shore. Some of the specimens are covered with a hard coat of 

 mud. L. rubellus, Rand., is found on plants growing close to the water's edge, 

 (Chagnon). 



Obthoptera. 



Mr. E. M. Walker, of Toronto, has continued his studies of the Canadian locusts and 

 their allies, and has published some of his results in the Canadian Eidomoloqid, but has been 

 prevented this year by other work from preparing a report upon recent captures. He however 

 sends the following notes on species of special interest : 



Melanoplus Bruneri, Scudd., a single male was taken at Dwight, Northern Muskoka, 2nd 

 September. This is of special interest, as it is a western species known only previously from 

 Alberta and some of the western states. (Walker.) 



Xiphidmm saltans, Scudd., another western insect, which was taken in considerable num- 

 bers in a certain part of High Park, Toronto, during August and September. They occurred 

 in bunches of rather long grass on sandy soil, and were in company with Melanoplus Dawsoni, 

 Scudd., among other Orthoptera. Both X. saltans and M. Dawsoni are species belonging to 

 the western prairies and their occurrence together so far east is of some interest. (Walker.) 



Odonata. 



A few workers have collected Dragon-flies during 1902 and more extensive work is planned 

 for next season. Several observers have reported the extraordinary numbers of these insects 

 seen on the prairies during the past season. Mr. Harvey, of Vancouver, Mr. E. M. Walker, 

 of Toronto, and Mr. T. J. McLaughlin, of Ottawa, have sent in short lists of species. These 

 will be reported upon in the next Entomological Record. 



