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(both from Quebec and Norway) and C. Noma (from Lapland) in my collection, 

 and the two insects ought to have been familiar enough to me ; whatever was said 

 by me of C. Jutta, was said in error, and must be understood as applying to C. 

 Noma, and C. Noma only ; for this, I feel indebted to Prof. Schoyen, and I am 

 glad to have this opportunity of correcting a serious mistake. 



There can be no doubt about the truth of labels, and the localities of the 

 captured Crambi are, therefore, correct ; Cr ambus truncatellus was taken in a swamp 

 at Tonset ; as Norway is not mentioned as one of its haunts in Dr. Staudinger's 

 list, I was pleased to think that this was its first capture in that country, which is 

 an evident error. — E. C. E. Jordan, 105, Harborne Eoad, Edgbaston : July, 1889. 



Notes from Colorado. — In my last note I spoke of Cecid. woolly galls on 

 Bigelovia. The Cecids., however, were only inquilines, and I have now reared two 

 specimens of a lovely little Try f eta, the true originator of the galls. It is curious 

 about the Ceeidomyia bigelovia, that all the specimens raised were females, and yet 

 a newly-emerged unimpregnated ? , when pressed under a cover-glass for microsco- 

 pical examination, extruded several eggs, which were full of an orange substance, 

 and certainly seemed to be in process of development. Parthenogenesis has been 

 recorded in C. destructor, so probably it may occur in C. bigelovia also. Rhodites 

 roscefolii is certainly a new species, and I have bred three of the flies from the little 

 flatfish rose-leaf galls. They are about 2f mill, long, with a black head and thorax, 

 and red-brown abdomen and legs ; but a full description will appear elsewhere in 

 course of time. The ants here have quite a European stamp, some being quite 

 identical with those of Europe. Mr. W. H. Ashmead has recently identified Lasius 

 flavns, De G\, L. alienus, Forst., and Myrmica lobicornis, NyL, in a little collection 

 of ants from West Cliff. In an ant's nest I got a Coccid, Orthezia, probable n. sp. 

 I have packed some off to Mr. Douglas, and he will know all about them. Dr. Geo. 

 H. Horn has recently identified a specimen of the European species Crepidodera 

 helxines, L., among some beetles from West Cliff here. — T. D. A. Cockeeell, West 

 Cliff, Custer Co., Colorado : June 2nd, 1889. 



Entomological Society of London: July 3rd, 1889. — The Eight Hon. Loed 

 Walsingham, M.A., F.E.S., President, in the Chair. 



The Eev. W. A. Hamilton, Calcutta, and Mr. H. W. Vivian, Glenafon, Taiback, 

 South Wales, were elected Fellows of the Society. 



A letter was read from Mr. E. J. Atkinson, Chairman of the Trustees of the 

 Indian Museum, Calcutta, in which assistance was asked from British entomologists 

 in working out various orders of Indian insects. 



The following motion, which had previously been unanimously passed at the 

 meeting of the Council, was read to the Society : — " That papers containing descrip- 

 tions of isolated species widely remote in classification or distribution, are, as a rule, 

 undesirable for publication, as tending to create unnecessary difficulties for faunistic 

 or monographic workers." Mr. McLachlan, Mr. Jacoby, Mr. Elwes, Dr. Sharp and 

 others took part in the discussion which followed. 



