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DIABROTICA IN NEW MEXICO. 
The Table of the distribution of Diabrotica given by Prof. Web¬ 
ster on p. 67 has gone wrong either in copying or printing. The altitude 
of the Mesilla Valley is 3800 ft. D. tricincta was not taken at Juarez, 
but in the Mesilla Valley; Mr. Wickham says it is also found in 
Northern Arizona, and at Albuquerque, N. M. D. longicornis (not 
lemniscata ) was found by Mr. Wickham, at Albuquerque. D. lem- 
niscata is from Socorro (Snow). T. D. A. Cockerell. 
NOTE ON SAMIA CALIFORNICA. 
By A. R. Grote. 
Mr. Beutenmiiller writes to me that, as to Sarnia californica, this 
name is the first published (1865) with description and must have pref¬ 
erence for the species. Dr. Behr writes to Mr. Beutenmiiller that the 
name “ ceanothi" was by mistake left out of the original description, 
and that no such name as “ Samia rubra Behr,” to which specific title 
Neumoegen and Dyar give preference, was ever published by him. I 
stated in the “ Saturniidenf that no description under the name 
“rubra" is known to me. The descriptions of the species under the 
name 11 ceanothi" (1868) and “ euryalus ” (1875) are both later than 
its description as calif or711ca ; although the two first names were in use 
in collections, as it now appears, they were neither of them sanctioned 
by description at the time my original paper appeared. 
NEW SPECIES OF INSECTS TAKEN ON A TRIP 
FROM THE MESILLA VALLEY TO THE SAC¬ 
RAMENTO MTS., NEW MEXICO. 
By T. D. A. Cockerell. 
From September 27 to October 7, 1896, the writer went on a trip 
to the Sacramento Mts., in company with Prof. C. H. T. Townsend. 
Among the insects obtained are several new species, some of which are 
described herewith: 
COCCIDyE. 
Icerya (Crypticerya) townsendi, sp. nov. 
9 - Long. 5, lat. 4, alt. 3.5 mm., subglobose, dark pink becoming dark pur¬ 
plish, thinly covered with white mealy secretion, which forms dorsal and sublateral 
