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ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [May, '02 



N. J. , July ID. It is usually captured in beating the shrubbery 

 on low sandy ground. 

 Tephronota canadensis n. sp. 



Front and vertex bright yellow, bordered with white pollen 

 or sheen, which in certain lights seems to extend around the 

 entire margin of the eye ; face and antennae yellow, the third 

 joint above slightly brownish ; occiput black and covered with 

 a grayish pollen. The entire thorax black and covered with a 

 grayish pollen, showing slight indica- 

 ^ tions of two dorsal stripes ; scutellum 

 brownish black ; abdomen a shining 

 black ; legs blackish, the ends of the 

 femora and tibia slightly yellowish, the amount of yellow on 

 the tibiae often varying considerably; tarsi yellow, the terminal 

 joints somewhat darker ; wings white hyaline, marked with 

 three black bands as shown in figure. Length 3 mm. 



Six specimens collected by Mr. G. Chagnon, at Rigaud, 

 Prov. Quebec, Canada, July 28, 1901. 



This species is readily distinguished from the preceeding by 

 its blackish legs, and greater extent of the third or outer band 

 on the wing. 



In working over the Ortalidae I find that the genus Stirto- 

 ccphala Loew, 1873, is preoccuped in Homoptera (1869), I 

 therefore propo.se the name Pscudotepiiritis. 



Dragonflies (Odonata) from the Magdalen Islands. 

 E. B. Williamson. 



On June 23 and June 30, 1901, Dr. D. A. Atkinson collected 

 167 dragonflies at Grand Entry, Magdalen Islands, Quebec. 

 Six .species are represented in the collection. The cosmopolitan 

 character of the Odonatological fauna of these islands as shown 

 by Dr. Atkinson's collecting justifies the publication of this 

 brief list. 



The Magdalen Islands arc iKJtwccii 47° and 48° N. Lat. and 

 61" and 62° W. Long., near the middle of the Gulf of St. 

 Lawrence, about 54 miles from Cape Hreton Island and only a 

 few miles farther from Prince Edward Island. They form an 



