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Xyleborus punctipennis. In the male the head is covered with 

 very long but not dense hair and the elytral declivity is less impressed 

 than in the female. This sexual character is quite exceptional in this 

 genus and but for the structure of the antennal club this species would 

 be referred to Pityophthorus. 



Dryocoetes septentrionis is synonymous with D. autographus 

 Ratz. as correctly stated by EichhoflF (I.e., p 262). 



Cryphalus rigidus. What Leconte (Rhynchophora of N. Am., 

 p. 362) describes as the male I take to be the female. Two specimens 

 from Detroit, Mich., which I consider as males, have the head deeply 

 retracted in the thorax so that its sculpture cannot be seen: but the first 

 antennal joint is fringed with a double row of long pale hairs as in 

 certain species qA Micracis. 



Cryphalus jalappae. Mr. Henshaw in his Check List wrongl\ 

 places this in the genus Coccoirypes. To the latter genus belongs Bostry- 

 chus daclyliperda Fabr., which, according to Elchhoff, lives in dates and 

 Areca nuts and which has been widely distributed with these two articles 

 of commerce. 



Xylocleptes. -Mr. Eichhoff (I.e., p. 23) states that A', bispinus 

 occurs in North America. The species is easily recognizable but I have 

 seen nothing similar in our collections and suspect a confusion of locali- 

 ties. It bores in the stems of Clematis. X. cucurbitce lives in the vines 

 of Wild Gourd, and X. decipiens will no doubt also prove to have similar 

 habits, as the numerous specimens I collected in Michigan and near 

 Washington always occured on low plants. I have failed heretofore to 

 discover the real food plant. A', condnntts, on the contrary, is stated b\ 

 Mannerheim to live under pine bark. 



Tomicus sexdentatus according to Eichhoff (I.e., p. 213) occurs 

 in North America: but the statement is probably based upon a wrono- 

 locality. 



Tomicus montanus Eichh. (I.e., p. 219) from California is syn- 

 onymous with T. confiisus. 



Tomicus mucronatus Lee , of Henshaw's Cheek List is apparently 

 a duplication of Cryphalus mucronatus and should be stricken off. 



(To be continued.) 



Notes and News 

 We have received from Mr. Scudder a circular announcing the near 

 completion of his work on the New England Butterflies, and giving a 

 list of desiderata in the way of early stages for illustrations. The list is 



