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Lahaway Plantation, west of Lakewood, N. J., I found a small 
Polistes nest under a board with two queens attending. They 
had evidently constructed it together. 
While the nests of Polistes on Staten Island and vicinity are 
usually placed in sheltered positions in buildings, old tin cans, 
cedar trees, box-bushes and like places, yet I have found them 
occasionally in most exposed situations. The most extraordi- 
nary situation noted was a nest built on the flat and exposed 
surface of a sign board at a cross-roads west of Lakewood, N. 
J., August 16, 1910. The nest was attached to the face of the 
board by a slightly curved pedicel and not protected from the 
weather in any way. In fact the small larve might have been 
wet by a driving rain, as the eighteen cells of which the nest 
was composed had only a slight downward slope. After photo- 
graphing this remarkable nest, Dr. Lutz and I put it ina cyanide 
bottle together with two of the wasps. 
NOTES ON SOME SPECIES OF THE CHRYSOMELID GENUS 
ALTICA (COLEOPTERA). 
By J. R. Mattocu, Urbana, III. 
In October, 1918, Dr. W. C. Woods published descriptions of 
three species of the genus Altica from Maine,’ and in examining 
the material in our collection to determine whether those new 
species were to be found here I discovered some facts that ap- 
pear to be worth recording. 
I found specimens of corni Wood in our collection from north- 
ern [linois and Wisconsin; ulmi Woods from Tyngsboro, Mass., 
and various parts of Illinois; and rose Woods from Pennsyl- 
vania and New York. I compared the above specimens with 
examples sent me at my request by Dr. E. M. Patch. 
The species described and recorded as torquata Leconte by Dr. 
Woods is undoubtedly not that species. The former is repre- 
sented in the Bolter collection here by a specimen from Nantucket 
1 Bull. 273, Me. Agr. Exper. Sta. 
