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as the farmers of Washington County call them, and by digging 

 down the loose soil and small stones I took this species by 

 the dozen. This was on Oct. 13th, 1900. No doubt they 

 were preparing their habitation and winter quarters. 



Odontoens filicornis Say. 



On Oct. 30, 1900, in looking for Platynus extensicollis again, 

 I discovered a fine perfect female of this rare beetle. Hitherto 

 my captures of this rarity were at the electric lights ; thus by 

 finding this female in such a position I believe that they have 

 the same habits in the larva state as the Lachnosterna, viz. : 

 feeding on the roots of grass and other vegetation. 

 Nyctobates pennsylvanicus De G. 



On Oct. 13th, I found a specimen of this our common tene- 

 brionid and which is oftentimes confounded with the rarer 

 Merimis lavtcs. It has a deformed middle leg on the left side. 

 The leg from the tibial joint is twisted and bent outwardly like 

 a crook or hooked walking stick, and by close examination of 

 this limb I find that this specimen was born without a foot 

 (tarsi and tarsal claws) on this deformed member. 



A New Moth from Alaska. 

 By Henry Skinner. 

 Psychophora fasciata n. sp. 



Male. — Antennae bipectinate. Head, thorax, abdomen and 

 legs clothed with brown hair. Primaries light brownish gray 

 and semi-translucent, with a brown band or fascia, 4 mm. wide, 

 extending from the costa to the interior margin. At the mid- 

 dle of the outer side the band is convex, almost making a point. 

 On the inner side it is correspondingly concave. The second- 

 aries are white, translucent and rounded, without spot or 

 marking. The neuration of the secondaries is brown and 

 .shows distinctly. 



The undersides of primaries and secondaries are immaculate 

 and of a sordid white ; under a lens they appear to be covered 

 with an admixture of whitish and brownish scales. 



Female. — Antennae, to the unaided eye, appear simple, but 

 under a lens they are shown to be made up of numerous min- 



