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Sphcerophthalma cypris Blake. This species was moderately 

 common at Westville during the summer of 1889 (Georgia). 



SphcBTophthalma canadensis Blake. About a dozen specimens 

 were taken in the same locality (Canada). 



Tachytes niandibularis Patton. Taken at Westville, N. J., 

 1889. One specimen (Connecticut). 



Philanthus Sanborni Cress. Westville, N. J., August, 1889. 

 One female (Massachusetts). 



Crabro trapezoideus Pack. One male, Fairmount Park, Phila- 

 delphia, September, 1889 (Illinois). 



Thyreopics cingulatiis Pack. Westville, N. J., Oct. 29, 1889. 

 One female (Illinois). 



Ajiacrabro occellaius Pack. Three specimens, one male and 

 two females, Westville, N. J., July and August, 1889 (Mass., 111.). 



Vespa occidentalis Cress. One specimen, Fairmount Park, 

 Philadelphia, September, 1889. Flying in company with V. 

 germanica, vidua and diabolica (Nevada, New Mexico). 



Nomada texana Cress. Two specimens, both females, Camden, 

 N. J., 1889 (Texas). 



Notnada lepida Cress. Three specimens (males), Franklinville, 

 Pa., April 20, 1890. Flying over and alighting on dry sunny 

 paths in the woods (Illinois, Colorado, Texas). 



Mellissodes compia Cress. One female of this handsome spe- 

 cies taken in Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, Sept., 1889 (Ga.). 



Apathtcs variabilis Cress. Gloucester, N. J., August?, 1889. 

 One specimen (Texas). 



All these species were compared with those in the collection of 

 the American Entomological Society, which contains the types of 

 nearlv all the insects mentioned. 



GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION. 



BY HENRY SKINNER, M. D. 



Dr. John Hamilton, in a recent paper (Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. 

 vol. xvi, p. 88), gives a list of the Coleoptera common to North 

 America, Northern Asia and Europe, and Mr. Cockerell (Ento- 

 mologist's Record and Journal of Variation vol. i. No. i, p. 9) a 

 list of the ' ' American Species of Lepidoptera Representative of 

 European;" also on page 13 of s^ie work, " American Varieties 



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