1912] Frost — Variations of Orsodachna Atra 153 



shining black wdth a circle of reddish spines at the end of the ovipositor. Length, 

 13 mm. 



The male (holotype) was taken about two miles above Bashbish 

 Falls, Mass., June 27, 1912, and the female (allotype) on Mt. 

 Equinox, near Manchester, Vt., Jime 5, 1910. Types are in the 

 New England collection of the Boston Society of Natural History. 



I referred a single specimen of this species provisionally to 

 C. nigripes Will., but an examination of a specimen of that species 

 in the U. S. National Museum proves them to be distinct. It is 

 readily distinguished from C. nigripes by its yellow tibiae and tarsi, 

 and brownish not "pure hyaline" wings. 



Nicocles politus Say. 



This species was taken by Mr. A. P. Morse at Haggetts Pond, 

 Essex Co., Mass., Sept. 21, 1911. The only other record for 

 this species in New England, is in the Harris collection, Cam- 

 bridge (Mt. Auburn), Mass., Aug. 1, 1836. 



Promachus fitchii O. S. 



This species has been captured at Dudley, Mass., July 10, 1911, 

 and Southbridge, Mass., July 7 and 8, 1912, by Stanley W. Brom- 

 ley. The previous New England records are Amherst, and Mt. 

 Tom, Mass., July 14. 



VARIATIONS OF ORSODACHNA ^ Ti^^— COLEOPTERA. 



By C. A. Frost, 



Framingham, Mass. 



An interesting series of this beetle was taken on the flowers of a 

 clump of Viburnum bushes growing beside a road in the town 

 of Paris, Maine, on June 15, 1910. There were no other clusters of 

 the bushes to be seen in the vicinity, and the surrounding country 

 was largely cultivated, with a few bushes along the road. The 

 elevation is in the neighborhood of 800 feet above the sea level. 

 The following descriptions of the color variations may be worth 

 presenting : 



