FALL— A REVIEW OF NOTIOPHILUS 
Iiiirdyi, sent to Lc-Conte by I’ntzeys, Mr. lilancliard assures me that he lias not 
the slifjhtest donht of their identity. This most ohviotis variation in tlie speci- 
mens in onr fauna, viz — the color of the tibiae and elytral ape.x, are noted by 
Pntzeys in his descrijition of hardyi, and are exactly paralleled in Icnropean 
siieciii'iens of aquaticus ; in fact the described variations of aqualicits in 
ICnrope are much s^reater than that existintt; between a series sent me by 
Keittcr, and onr native specimens. 
Kirb\' many years a^o recorded aquaticus from Hritish America, and Sahl- 
bere; has more recently thus identified a specimen from the .\laskan coast of 
Mehriiif^ Strait. Le Conte jirononnced Kirby's reference erroneous, but there 
is ample reason for saying that the correctness of Le Conte's views in this 
genus is not above suspicion. The introduction of aquaticus into the su]iple- 
ment of the Ilenshaw list is based on Sahlberg's record, which may have been 
correct, thotigh I suspect that the species in (|uestion was really borealis, a 
s'pecies which i.s closely related to aquaticus, and which is known to me from 
.Uaska. 
In our fauna aquaticus is known to range from Labratlor through northern 
New England and Canada to Lake Superior, Ilud.son Lay, Manitoba, Montana, 
and in the higher parts of the Rocky mountains as far south as New Mexico. 
It is thus seen to be a distinctly more northern species than scinistriatus, which 
occuiiies the intervening territory to the smith. Its occurrence at Tyngsboro 
in northeastern Massachusetts and only a few hundred feet altove sea level is 
quite e.xccqitional according to Mr. I’lanchard, who says — "In February, 1870. 
about fifty specimens of X . aquaticus were jiicked np from a frozen temporary 
])ooI in a grassy field; some were partly frozen into the ice, others were crawl- 
ing about on the surface. Of these I have only three 9 's left, all others hav- 
ing been distributed as hardyi. and none have since been taken here." 
The following specific localities are known to me : Labrador ( Strait of Lelle 
[sic — Sherman); Newfoundland {hardyi in Le-Conte Coll., Lay of islands — 
Leng. ) ; New 1 lainjishire ( Mt. Washington and Rack Monadnock — 1 llaiichard ) ; 
Massachusetts (Tyngsboro and summit of Mt. Watalic — llkmcbard); Wis- 
consin (R.ayfield — Wickham); Lake Su[)erior and Hudson Lay Territory ( Le 
Conte Coll.); Montana ( Kalispell — Wickham and the writer); Colorado 
( .\rgentinc Pass and \'eta Pas.s — .Schwarz, Monntains southwest of Montrose, 
([-10,000 feet, Coclielo])a Pass, Durango 5500-7000 feet — Hayward); New 
.Mexico ( Reulah — 8.000 feet. Las \egas Range — 11,000 feet — Cockerell). 
4. X. borckdis Harris. 
