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quite a rainy time in this part of Colorado, and I saw fragments of a good 

 many in the mud. The lamp trimmer told me they had been quite a 

 nuisance for more than a week, flying into houses and stores where there 

 was a bright light, in many instances causing alarm (he called them bats). 

 On my return from southwest Colorado, two weeks later, our train stopped 

 at Salida at 9 a.m. ; during the "twenty minutes for refreshments" I looked 

 round under the lamps. In a coal-box, near one, were two battered ex- 

 amples of E. odora, but on the lamp-post, about seven feet from the 

 ground, was a specimen of the silken, gray beauty zenobia, the first I had 

 seen alive. I have visited this district many times in the last seven years, 

 and my late friend, W. S. Foster, a keen collector, resided there two 

 years, yet we never saw either species there before, and I feel pretty cer- 

 tain that their occurrence this year is something unusual. 



David Bruce, Brockport, N. Y. 



A SPECIMEN of Xy/ocopa, received from Mr. H. F. Wickham, bearing 

 the label Fort Yuma, Cal., turns out to be the Cuban X. cubaecola Lucas. 

 To the best of my knowledge, this species has not been recorded from 

 any other locality, although it occurs, probably, in Mexico. The following 

 table will assist in determining the Californian species of Xylocopa: 

 Abdomen bottle-green, bronzed ; front in 9 with a strong projection. 



Length 22 — 25 mm californica Cr. 



Abdomen bronze-purple ; frontal projection almost obsolete, having the 

 appearance of a faint tubercle. Length 18 mm. . pnrpnrea Cr. 

 Entirely black $ ; (j^ of cubaecola entirely fulvous, with fulvous pubes- 

 cence; c? of orpifex with the face and clypeus yellowish. 

 Ventral abdominal segments strongly carinated ; clypeus with the 

 punctures becoming somewhat obsolete medially ; 1^ fulvous. 



Length 9 cJ' 18— 23 mm CUbaecola Luc. 



Ventral segments of the abdomen faintly carinated ; clypeus equally 

 punctured throughout ; (^ with the thorax clothed with pale pu- 

 bescence. Length 9 (^ 17— 1 8 mm. . . . orpifex Sm. 



William J. Fox. 



While on a trout fishing trip on the Nepigon River last July we broke 

 camp some forty miles up river, after three days' of showery weather, and, 

 with birch-bark canoes, started for Red Rock, the Hudson Bay Company's 

 post at the mouth of the river. There are a number of rapids around 

 which canoes and camp equipage must be carried, and at which the dif- 

 ferent meals are usually cooked, while the Indians are making the portage. 

 On July 14th, a hot day following the rains, we were portaging around 

 Cameron Pool and rapids, when one of the party, who had descended 

 the higher land to the bank of a little creek, came rushing back with an 

 ordinary fish landing-net containing ten fluttering Limeniiis arthentis which 

 he had caught with one stroke. Of course they were ruined, but the 

 entomologist of the party, upon investigation, found the ashes, where 

 camp fires had been made upon the banks of the creek, completely cov- 



