210 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



p. 253. The type of this description, as above stated, has been examined 

 by Coquillett and found identical with the species under consideration. 

 There is no other name which is not open to serious doubt. 



Consohi/ms, Desvoidy, may stand unidentified. Should anyone feel 

 under necessity to " do something" with it, let him place it as a synonym 

 oipipiens. Certainly no one can prove that it does not belong there, 

 unless he can examine the type. In looking up Dejean's collection in 

 Hagen's " Bibliotheca," I find considerable information as to certain 

 families of Coleoptera and Lepidoptera, but nothing about the Diptera. 

 The collection was divided, and the various parts scattered in a dozen 

 places. So there is but little prospect that the type of cofisobritms can be 

 found. 



The rapidly growing importance of the Calicid?e will, I trust, excuse 

 me for occupying so much space in the attempt to set right one of our 

 common species. 



GOT WITHOUT SEEKING. 



As I was sitting in Victoria Park, London, Ont., on one of the early 

 days of August, 1902, a sharp click on my straw hat indicated to me that 

 a beetle had been suddenly arrested in its erratic flight. I took off my hat 

 and found thereon a longhorn, with the familiar outline and ornamentation 

 of the old Clytns group. But there was something about it that seemed 

 unusual to me, and the more I looked at it the more I was convinced of 

 its novelty. So I secured it, killed and mounted it, and, as opportunity 

 presented itself, endeavoured to determine it, but could find nothing with 

 which it would correspond, and the books aftbrded me no relief. Having 

 occasion to require the assistance of Mr. VV. H. Harrington, Ottawa, upon 

 some B. C. beetles, I sent my unique in order to secure his verdict upon 

 it. He pronounced it to be Xy/otrechus 4-maculatus, and remarked, 

 " This is an interesting species, of which I have only taken one example, 

 and that is of a yellowish colour." (Mine is whitish in the colour of its 

 ornamentation.) "■ 4-niaculatus is said to be very variable in colour, so I 

 think your specimen belongs to that species, although differing so much 

 from mine." And that specimen now stands in what was before a blank 

 in the Society's collection. J. Alston Moffat. 



Mailed June 30lh, 1903. 



