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There were a good many species scattered through the other 

 small families, a considerable part of which would be classed 

 by the collector as good or desirable things. 



Last season I had the opportunity of overhauling two nests 

 of the ordinary gray squirrel. Aside from fleas or one or two 

 ticks, I found about a dozen or eighteen Dendrophiliis pimchi- 

 latus Say, three pairs of Trox scaber Linn, and one small unde- 

 termined species. A number of mouse nests showed three 

 minute species, one of them a Falagria. I think a careful 

 study of these nests will reveal many small forms, and some- 

 body who is favorably situated should make a point of digging 

 out and examining the burrows of our woodchucks, rabbits, 

 foxes, etc., and the chances are they will be well repaid. On 

 June 17, 1897, a great number of Lixus concavus Say were taken 

 both singly and in pairs in Ritmex brittanica Linn, (the great 

 yellow water dock). Though a common species elsewhere, I 

 have never seen it here before, so that its occurrence in num- 

 bers was rather interesting. By the way, I have a theory- — 

 which, perhaps, is shared by others — that no species is rare if 

 collectors know when and where to look for it. They may be 

 extremely local and be found only for a few days, but in that 

 time and place they are common, or if even a part of the life- 

 habits of a species can be found out, it usually ceases to be a 

 rarity, while the pleasure of such a discovery compensates the 

 finder for many disappointments and much hard work. 



Brookline, Mass. 



A New Species of Eutettix, 



(JASSIDiE, HOMOPTERA.) 



By Herbert Osborn, Ohio State University, Columbus, O. 

 Eutettix magnns n. sp. 



General aspect of lurida, larger, more conspicuously marked ; elytra 

 broader apically. Yellow, with dark brown fuscous and blackish mark- 

 ings on head, pronotum and elytra. A broad, black, frontal band extend- 

 ing to and enclosing the light-yellow occelli at each side. Length, to tip of 

 elytra, ? 6.75 mm ; (j^ 5 mm. To tip of abdomen, 9 5.50 mm ; (^ 2 mm. 

 Width of pronotum, 9 2.50 mm. ; (^ 2 mm. 



Head broadly lunate, vertex slightly longer at middle than next eye, a 

 distinct but rather shallow transverse depression on anterior third in and 



