46 The Humming Bird. 



Male. — Head, thorax and elytrae smooth and black, 

 shining most brillantly, somewhat like M. latipennis, 

 Waterhouse, but it is easily distinguishable from that 

 species by its smaller size, and by the absence of granula- 

 tions on the elytrae, which, excepting their extremities, 

 are only faintly striated, the upper parts of the elytrae are 

 acutely pointed, and terminates with a hook turned down- 

 wards. A little lower down, there is another hook directed 

 also downwards, followed by three more, but less apparent. 

 Lower down can be seen, for all the length of the external 

 margin, another feeble tinge of these hooks, having the 

 appearance of a deep punctuation. The extremities of the 

 elytrae are deeply granulated, and covered with long black 

 bristly hairs above, and on the margins. These bristly 

 hairs are also apparent on the margins of head, and on all 

 the legs where they are abundant and conspicuous. It is 

 smaller than M. latipennis, scarcely larger than M. tuber- 

 culata, with the elytrae wider than in the last species. 



Length if in. Largest width of elytrae f . 



CHICAGO EXPOSITION. 



World's Fair Notes. 



Applications for space in the Exposition buildings now 

 aggregate more than 4,000,000 square feet, a little over 

 one-third being from foreign applicants. 



Great Britain has added £35,000 to its World's Fair 

 appropriation, making it now £60,000 or approximately 

 $300,000. 



Victoria, Australia, has made a World's Fair appro- 

 priation of $100,000. 



Arguments for and against Sunday opening of the 

 Exposition will be heard by the National Commission on 

 October 6. 



A young lad, son of the editor of the Florida Standard, 

 is making, for exhibition at the Fair, a table upon which 

 appears an inlaid map of the state, each county being 

 accurately represented by a separate piece of native Florida 

 wood. 



In the California building will be shown a growing 

 specimen of every California domestic flower obtainable, 

 and also paintings, in water and oil, of 600 wild flowers 

 and grasses. 



In the Government exhibit will appear all the relics, 

 which are obtainable, of various Arctic exploring expedi- 

 tions. 



