150 Journal New York Entomological Society. [Voi. v. 



not the Transition, and in New Mexico S. elcEagnifoliitvi is its normal 

 food plant. 



Coptocycla clavata Fab.^ (det Wickh.) — On Physalis in Mesilla. 



Chelymorpha argus Licht., (det. Wickh.) — In August on Sola- 

 n:nn ehcagtnfoliii>n in Mesilla. 



Colaspis flavida Say, (det. Wickh.) — Rather common on culti- 

 vated (mission) grape vines in Mesilla, July 22, etc. 



CURCULIONID.E. 



Trichobaris compacta Casey, (det. Wickh.)— Common in Mesilla 

 on Datura metelioides, breeding in the stems. 



Otidocephalus vittatus Horn, (det. Natl. Mus.) — Common on 

 Bige/ovia graveolens, var., Tularosa Creek, below the Mescalero Agency, 

 October 2. The species found on Bigelovia in the Mesilla Valley has 

 been referred to O. nivosus Casey. 



SCARAB.EID.E. 



Atcenius inops Horn, (det. Wickh.)— Flying in great numbers in 

 a sandy place, about 5:30 P. M., beginning of October, at Las Cruces. 



Cyclocephala dimidiata Biirm. — Common at INIesilla in flowers 

 of Daiura metelioides. Also at Selden. 



SCOLYTID.E. 

 Xylocleptes cucurbitae Lee., (det. Dep. Agr.) — Bred in the spring 

 of 1897 in numbers from dead stems of Cueurhita fcetidissima {^^per- 

 ennis) in Mesilla. 



LAGRIID.E. 



Statira opacicollis Horn. — San Augustine, on the east side of 

 the Organ Mountains, August 29, in great numbers in flowers oi Datura. 



BUPRESTID.E. 

 Agrilus couesii Lee. — Santa Fe, August 3, on Menizelia niida. 

 Anthaxia asneogaster Lap. — Ruidoso Creek, 7,500 feet, on 

 Rosafendleri (E. O. Wooton. coll.). 



The dragonfly mentioned on p. 9 \, of the June number of the Jour- 

 nal, as Lestes virgo Hagen (sp. n.) [in MS.], is, I find after examina- 

 tion of Hagen collection in the Museum of Comparative Zoology, at 

 Cambridge, Mass., the same as Lestes inequalis Walsh. — Philip P. Cal- 

 vert. 



