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species may be found at any points in the West. Conibiiis and 

 Notibius have much the same habits, but are rarer. Ulus crassus I 

 took under rubbish near Los Angeles. 



Cnemeplatia sericea is a curious insect, reminding one somewhat 

 of Heterocenis. I took one specimen at Holbrook, Ariz., and one 

 at Albuquerque, N. Mex., the latter was flying in the evening, the 

 former I think I took from beneath a piece of board, but can find 

 no note relating to it. A still more curious little animal is Alandcs 

 singiilaris, of which I got a few specimens from an ant's nest at 

 Huntington, Oreg., about the end of May. The nest was under a 

 stone in a grassy spot, and with the ants were about a dozen of these 

 Alandes. They are curious little things, very strongly punctured, 

 with setose elytra, and an immoderately deep quadrate basal'thoracic 

 impression, matching a similar one at the base of the elytra. 



While tearing up an old pine log at Victoria in company with a 

 friend, we found a large colony of Pthora americana Horn, a little 

 insect resembling our Dicedus pimdatus in appearance. The wood 

 was completely rotten, so that it could be easily be broken up with 

 the aid of a heavy knife, and the beetles were found all through it 

 instead of just under the bark. Cyncrus depressus is found in pine 

 at Williams, Ariz., just beneath the bark. 



Under the sea-weed along Colorado beach were plenty of Pha- 

 leria rotundata sharing their ill-smelling feast with Cercyon, Saprinus 

 and numerous Staphylinid^e. Platydema janus Fab. is found under 

 the bark of cottonwood at East Bridge, Ariz.,- and P. orego7iense 

 under pine bark from Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, to Coolidge, N. Mex., 

 with Hypophloeus substriatus. 



Hehps is found under sticks and rubbish, especially along the 

 river bottoms early in the spring. // aitennatus occurred in the 

 Sierra Madre Mountains. H. arizoncnsis and two undetermined 

 species along the little Colorado, and H. pernitens at Portland, 

 Oreg. Other species occur in Western Wyoming. 



A NEW SPECIES OF BOTIS. 



BY JOfiN B. SMITH. 



During the summer of 1S89 I received from Mr. J. T. Brakeley, 

 of Bordentown, N. J., some buds, flowers, seed capsules, as well as 

 leaf and flower stems of the Egyptian Lotus all badly damaged by 

 a lepidopterous larva. Mr. Brakeley informed me that in the earlier 

 stages the larvce fed exposed upon the leaves, but soon bored into 



