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by beating. The sexes differ in color, one sex only having the pale 

 sides to the thorax which is indicated by the name. 



Zengophora varians. This species was caught at Ramsey, N. J., 

 Labor Day, on dead chestnut saplings growing alongside a tree; it 

 was not active, but retracted its legs as it fell in the umbrella, and 

 acted and looked like a Cregya oculata. 



Bassartis snlplmripennis. This species was caught at Lake Hopat- 

 cong, on leaves of oak, in July or August. — E. A. Bischoff. 



Anthonomus scutellaris on Beach Plum.— In the last edition of 

 "The Insects of New Jersey" the weevil Anthonomus scutellaris hec. 

 is reported without definite locality. In my collections there are 

 three specimens from Staten Island, identified by Mr. Charles W. 

 Leng; a pair found in copulation on May 7, and a female found on a 

 beach plum bush near the shore at Richmond Valley. The species is 

 not mentioned in Ulke's District of Columbia list, nor in that of 

 Charles Dury of the beetles occurring near Cincinnati, Ohio. — Wm. 

 T. Davis. 



Dytiscus flying in January. — As an illustration of the mild tem- 

 perature we have had this winter, it may be worthy of mention that 

 a specimen of Dytiscus verticalis J* was caught flying in my garden 

 about 5 P. M. on January 17, by my son. — C. W. Leng. 



Periodical Cicada (Tibicen septendecim Linn.). — The appearance 

 of a large brood of this insect in 191 1 aroused much interest, and as 

 an indirect outcome, we received from Prof. G. A. Bailey, June 11, 

 1912, a report that he had found several nymphs of this insect emerg- 

 ing from the ground on Major Wadsworth's estate at Geneseo. Sub- 

 sequently adults were forwarded and there can be no question as to 

 the identity of the insect. Prof. Bailey states that the few observed 

 occurred within a narrow radius in a piece of second growth timber. 

 There is a record of a colony of brood 12, the one which appeared in 

 such large numbers in the Hudson valley in 191 1, in the northern 

 part of Pennsylvania and not so very distant from Geneseo. Should 

 the insects noted above belong to this brood they must be considered 

 as stragglers, otherwise it is necessary to associate them with brood 

 three, no colony of which has been recorded nearer New York state 

 than central-western Ohio and the northern portion of West Virginia. 



