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Prof. F. M. Webster, of the Bureau of Entomology, very 

 kindly loaned me specimens of the larvae and pupa?, but the 

 alcoholic specimens are somewhat shrunken and I do not care to 

 attempt a full description of them, hence I have quoted from 

 his bulletin. The tubercles on the larvae are very distinct and 

 in two rows on most of the segment as in other species, but 

 there are certainly more than four on some of the segments. In 

 the pupa the hairs on the prothorax are rather long, the first 

 four pairs near the margin and equidistant from each other, on 

 the posterior portion are at least three pairs of hairs and two 

 1 'lirs on the dorsum, this would leave one pair missing, the pupa? 

 examined were however alcoholic specimens and may have been 

 rubbed. It is probable that with a sufficient number to study 

 the anal segments would show characters that might be used in 

 separating the species. 



Distribution: Type locality "Anglia. D. Banks," Fabricius, 

 177"). In L781 Fabricius again described this species, under the 

 name variabilis from specimens from " Hamburg. Dom. Schulz. " 

 In 17x,"> Herbst had specimens from Berlin. 



Petri and Capiomont record it as occurring over all Europe, 

 British Isles, Egypt, Asia Minor, Caucasus and Transkaukasus, 

 and Algeria. It is mentioned in Hochhuth's "Russland" list 

 but has apparently not been recorded from Siberia. The first 

 published record from America is in Leconte's Rhyncophora in 

 1876, where he states that it occurs in " Massachusetts and Can- 

 ada." I have a specimen from Mr. Frederick Blanchard, taken 

 on Mt. Washington, in New Hampshire, in 1S74, so that it had 

 doubtless been here for many years previous to that time. 

 Hubbard and Schwarz collected it in eastern Massachusetts 

 in 1873-4. Provancher in 1877 under the name Erirhinus 

 viridis described it from Quebec. Since that decade it has been 

 gradually spreading westward and southward. Being a small, 

 rather inconspicuous species it is easily overlooked. 



I have seen many specimens from various places and have 

 records of many others which are here included. 



Dominion of Canada: New Brunswick (Fletcher, 1884) at 

 Dalhousie. 



Prince Edwards Island: Charlottetown (U. S. N. M.). 



Ontario: Ottawa (Harrington. 1884); also specimens in 

 coll. Cornell Univ.; Toronto, Nov. (Wickham coll.) ; 25-5-96, 07, 

 24-5-97 (Cornell Univ.) 



