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except that the antenna has eijrlit joints. Sehiner (Fauna .\nstr., II, p. 573, 1SG4), 
(leserihes the European species as havin<r six-jointed antennae. Osten Saeken 
(Mon. IV, p. 168) in referring to this, says: — “It seems to me that I can count foiir 
joints in the only specimen in my po.s.session.” The “four joints” refers only to the 
flagellum, making seven joints in all. The six specimens before me (including the 
type) all have seven joints. It seems singular that there should he this discrejianey 
in the antenna’, a generic character. The description of C. nivicola also calls for 
six abdominal segments (an unusual number for a Tipnlid). A comparative study 
of the American and European forms seems very desirable. 
< )wing no doubt to its peculiar habits, it is rarely observed, and there are eom- 
paratively few records since its discovery by Harris more than eighty years ago. It 
has been found in iMinne.sota, and de.seribed and figured by the late Otto Lugger in 
his .second annual Rejiort, page 230, ])late XVI, 1896. Later i\Ir. E. L. Washburn 
in the Tenth Annual Report, page 30, 1905, gives another figure of the species. It 
re])resents a male; the abdomen .seems to be entirely too broad, and the genitalia 
are jioorly shown. In the Canadian Entomologist for August, 1906, p. 275, iMr. 
C. N. Ainslie al.so records it from Minnesota. 
Through the kindne.ss of Mr. J. H. Emerton 1 am able to again record this 
species from New England. During a trip to the White Mountains iMr. Emerton 
was fortunate in finding this interesting .species, and in regard to its capture says: — 
“'riiree males and one female of this rare insect were found walking slowly about on 
the snow, in .sheltered places on the edge of the woods at Jackson, N. H., Eebruary 
20, 1907. This was the last of several warm days when the snow had been melting 
in the sun at noon. The snow was two to three feet deej) but there were open 
spots around larger trees and stones through which insects might come from the 
ground. The published figures of New England specimens are small and indefinite. 
1 therefore give new drawings of l)oth sexes.” These specimens have been presented 
to the Boston Society of Natural History. There are also in the collection of the 
Society the type, and a .specimen presented by iMr. Samuel Henshaw, which was 
taken by iMr. II. L. iMoody at Malden, iMa.ss. There is little to add to the de- 
scriptive remarks by Harris, ami the description by Osten Saeken. The excellent 
figures by iMr. Emerton show clearly the genitalia and antennae, and al.so two 
minute protuberances which would indicate the normal po.sition of the wings; these 
are tpiite di.stinct in the fresh specimens, which are pre.served in alcohol, but in 
dried specimens .seem to be obliterated. The three males collected by Mr. Emerton 
show considerable variation; the one figured measures about 6 mm., the other only 
about 4 mm. In one specimen the hind femora are scarcely thickened. The larva 
