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Saperda puncticollis Say. — Breeds in poison-ivy {Rhus toxi- 

 codendron). 



Mecas inornata Say. — Bores in the roots and lower part of the 

 stems of HeleniiiDi tenuifolium, also recorded as living in the shoots of 

 willow and poplar. 



Oberea bimaculata 6>//^^— Burrows in the stems of blackberry 

 and raspberry. 



Oberea schaumii Lee. — Larva bores in the twigs of cottonwood 

 (poplar). 



Oberea mandarina Fahr.—^oxt% in the twigs of poplar. 



Oberea quadricallosa Z^^.— Lives in the stems of willow. 



Tetraopes tetraophthalmus Forst.—i:\\& larva bores in the 

 roots and lower parts of the stem of milkweed (^Asclepias). The larvae 

 of the other species of the genus probably also live in a similar manner. 



Dysphaga tenuipes ZTa/./. —Breeds in dead limbs of hickory. 



NOTE ON GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION AND 

 MIMICRY OF APATELA. 



By A. Radcliffe Grote, A. ]M. 



The majority of the species of Apatela occur in North America, 

 where their range is extraordinarily extended, since they are found from 

 Hudson's Bay territory in the north to the tropical regions in Mexico; 

 they appear to be absent from the West Indies. From North America, 

 north of Mexico, sixty species are described, the European fauna has a 

 total of fifteen (consult Grote, Die Verwandtschaft zwischen der Noc- 

 tinden-Fauna von Nordamerika und Europa, Gerhandl. Gesell. Deutsch. 

 Naturf. und Aerzte, Bremen, 1890). A surprising number of species 

 have been collected in Bastrop Co. , Texas, by Belfrage \ from this State 

 twelve species are recorded. From California only four species are cer- 

 tainly known, perdita, spinea, iipini, felina ; the last is, according to 

 Dr. Dyar, an Acronycta, the second and third I have referred to a dis- 

 tinct subgenus, Merolonche, but, after seeing the European menyonthidis , 

 it appears possible to me that spinea is congeneric or, at least, related. 

 The bulk of the species are found over the temperate regions of the 

 South American Continent, from Lower Canada to the Gulf; from New 



