190 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Connecticut. — I have before me twenty-one specimens from 

 this State, belonging to the following species : — 



(1.) P. zizice, Eob. Three males in Coll. Am. Ent. Soc. 

 Both sexes collected at Hartford by Mr. Dunning. 



(2.) P. pygmcea, Cress. Hartford, May 27th, &c. Mr. 

 Dunning. 



(3.) P. varifrons, Cress. Hartford, July 30th, 1893. Mr. 

 Dunning. Male. 



(4.) P. modesta, Say. Two males in Coll. Am. Ent. Soc. A 

 male, taken by Mr. Dunning at Hartford on July 30th, 1893, has 

 the upward prolongations of the lateral face-marks rather after 

 the manner of the New Jersey conjiuens, but the wings are not so 

 dark, and the thorax not nearly so coarsely punctured. 



(5). P. verticalis, Cress. One male in Coll. Am. Ent. Soc. 

 Cresson gives this species as from Mass., Penn., Colo., but I 

 suspect that his Colo, material belonged to tridens or tri- 

 dentula. 



Massachusetts.— There is a male verticalis in Coll. Am. Ent. 

 Soc. ; the antenna? are shorter than Cresson describes, but I have 

 no doubt it is the same species. I have females of modesta from 

 Mr. Baker and Mr. Dunning, the latter collected at Southampton, 

 July 14th, 1894. One female has spots on tegulse, and belongs 

 perhaps to zizice. 



New Hampshire. — There are several examples of modesta in 

 Coll. Am. Ent. Soc, and one each of zizice and basalis. The Coll. 

 Am. Ent. Soc. also contains several female examples of varifrons, 

 one from the valleys of the White Mts. ; these vary among them- 

 selves, some having, others being without, light marks on the hind 

 border of prothorax. They differ from the Colorado form in lacking 

 the spot on tegulse, but this will scarcely indicate a distinct species. 

 Erom zizice and modesta, female varifrons may be known by 

 the narrower lateral face-marks, which are rather bow-shaped 

 than triangular ; from the Florida sckwarzii it may be known at 

 once by the much less infuscated wings, though it is in all respects 

 very closely allied ; from elliptica it is known by the absence of 

 the transverse mark on clypeus, — it is probable that the speci- 

 mens alluded to by Cresson as having this mark were really 

 elliptica. 



Canada. — I have seen the following : — 



(1.) P. basalis, Sm. One female. English River, Quebec. 

 Coll. Am. Ent. Soc. 



(2.) P. elliptica, Kirby. One female. Coll. Am. Ent. Soc. 

 Tegulae wholly dark. Wings brownish-hyaline, not distinctly 

 infuscated. Anterior margin of clypeus with a conspicuous 

 transverse light band. 



(3.) P. varifrons, Cress. Several females in U. S. N. M. One 

 from Toronto, the others ex. coll. Coquillet. One marked as 



