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Morrison, collected in Arizona; also have specimens from Dela- 

 ware County, Pa., collected by Mr. Charles Johnson, also from 

 Newark, N. J. 



Odontota horni and O. notata are found on the same plant, 

 Tephrosia virginiana, commonly known as Goats Rue. 



Of all the species mentioned, none were found unique. 



SYNONYMICAL NOTES. 



By George H. Horn, M. D. 



In a recent study of the Coleoptera of the Peninsula of Cali- 

 fornia my attention was called particularly to an arrangement of 

 the species of Conibius and Notibius published by Capt. Casey 

 (Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sc. v). With the exception of two species, 

 all those heretofore placed in the latter genus have been trans- 

 ferred to Conibnis, making the latter heterogeneous, and requir- 

 ing the formation of a genus Conibiosoma, which cannot in any 

 way be maintained. There have been at the same time two spe- 

 cies of Notibius named which are not separable from p^iberulus 

 {substriatus and laticeps), both being simply feeble variations 

 from our assumed type. 



Aphanotus has also had a new name added to it, the species 

 being separated by the apparently very good character of having 

 the eyes divided by the sides of the head in brevicornis and not 

 divided in parallelus. Usually such a character is believed to 

 have generic value, but in the present instance has no value what- 

 ever, as there are in my series three specimens in which one eye 

 is completely divided, and in the other not. The remarkable 

 coincidence is, that in the three specimens the right eye is the 

 divided one, the left not. 



In July, 1893, while collecting in a garden in Cambridge, Mass. , a friend 

 of mine caught a bright, fresh specimen of Papilio phile7ior ( Linn), 

 which had evidently come from larva grown in the immediate vicinity. 

 The seeming scarcity of this butterfly in this part of New England has 

 prompted the recording of the above instance of its occurrence here. — 

 S. W. Denton. 



The annual report of the Curator (Alexander Agassiz) of the Museum 

 of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College for 1892-93 states that in 

 1876, Dr. Hagen refused an urgent invitation to assume charge of the 

 entomological collection of the University of Berlin. 



