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DIABROTICA IN NEW MEXICO. 



The Table of the distribution of Diabrotica given by Prof. Web- 

 ster on p. 67 has gone wrong either in copying or priming. The altitude 

 of the Mesilla Valley is 3800 ft. D. tricincta was not taken at Juarez, 

 but in the Mesilla Valley ; Mr. Wickham says it is also found in 

 Northern Arizona, and at Albuquerque, N. M. D. longicorms (not 

 lemniscata) was found by Mr. Wickham, at Albuquerque. D. lem- 

 niscata is from Socorro (Snow). T. D. A. Cockerell. 



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 NOTE ON SAMIA CALIFORNICA. 

 By a. R. Grote. 

 Mr. Beutenmiiller writes to me that, as to Samia calif ornica, this 

 name is the first published (1865) with description and must have pref- 

 erence for the species. Dr. Behr writes to Mr. Beutenmiiller that the 

 name ^' ceanothV' was by mistake left out of the original description, 

 and that no such name as " Samia rubra Behr," to which specific title 

 Neumoegen and Dyar give preference, was ever published by him. I 

 stated in the '^ Saturniiden;' that no description under the name 

 '' rubra'' is known to me. The descriptions of the species under the 

 name ^Ueanothi'' (1868) and ^Uuryalus'' (1875) are both later than 

 its description ?& calif ornica ; although the two first names were m use 

 in collections, as it now appears, they were neither of them sanctioned 

 by description at the time my original paper appeared. 



NEW SPECIES OF INSECTS TAKEN ON A TRIP 

 FROM THE MESILLA VALLEY TO THE SAC- 

 RAMENTO MTS., NEW MEXICO. 

 Bv T. D. A. Cockerell. 

 From September 27 to October 7, 1896, the writer went on a trip 

 to the Sacramento Mts., in company with Prof. C. H. T. Townsend. 

 Among the insects obtained are several new species, some of which are 



described herewith : 



COCCID.'E. 



Icerya (Crypticerya) townsendi, sp. nov. 



9. Long. 5, lat. 4, alt. 3.5 mm., subglobose, dark pink becoming dark pur- 

 plish, thinly covered with white mealy secretion, which forms dorsal and sublateral 



