1912] Johnson — Velidinous Species of the Genus Chrysopilus 109 



indebted to Mr. Frederick Knab for the privilege of describing 

 this species. The specimen figured in the insect book by L. O. 

 Howard, pi. 16, fig. 23, is this species and not C. velutinus. It 

 is marked "Fla." Specimens are in the collection of Mrs. Slosson 

 from Hot Springs, N. C. 



The distribution of two of the species is c{uite wide. C. davisi 

 is known only from the type locality, Clayton, Georgia. C. 

 velutinus Illinois (type locality), Kentucky (Osten Sacken), and 

 St. Augustine, Fla. (C. W. Johnson). C. thoracimis, was described 

 from "Carolina." I have no record south of Maryland and 

 Virginia. It is common in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Connec- 

 ticut and western and central Massachusetts. I have not seen 

 it from the eastern part of the State, nor north of Massachusetts, 

 although L. E. Hood (Psyche, July 1892, p. 283), recorded it 

 from Mt. Lincoln, N. H. and Maine. F. L. Washburn records it 

 from Minnesota, but intermediate records are very scarce. The 

 writer found the larva of this species in a wet decayed log along 

 Brandywine Creek, Chester County, Pa., Apr. 27; it pupated 

 May 8 and the imago appeared May 30. 



The original spelling of the generic name is Chrysopilus not 

 Chryopila and the date 1826 not 1827. 



In looking for records my attention was called to figure 75, in the 

 Diptera of Minnesota (Tenth Ann. Rept., p. 84, 1905), by F. L. 

 Washburn. The figure represents Atherix variegata Walk, and 

 not Leptis mysfacea female, the head would indicate a male. 



U. S. Postal Regulations Concerning the Mailing of 



Insects. 



The following extract from a recent order of the Postmaster 

 General will be of interest to entomologists. 



"Queen bees and their attendant bees, when accompanied by a copy of a cer- 

 tificate of the current year from a State or Government apiary inspector to the 

 effect that the apiary from which said queen bees are shipped is free from dis- 

 ease or by a copy of a statement by the bee-keeper made before a notary 

 public or other officer having a seal that the honey used in making the candy 

 used in the queen mailing cage has been diluted and boiled in a closed vessel; 

 beneficial insects, when shipped by departments of entomology in agri- 

 cultural colleges and persons holding official entomological positions; other live 



