Platynus reflexus, Lec., and variety a.— This species may be found in the bed of nearly dry hill-side streams and the debris along theri banks, June being the time of its greatest abundance. In Dr. Leconte's synopsis of Platynus (Bull. Brook. Ent. Soc., Il.,) a variety in noted as a, with four elytral punctures, while reflexus has but three—nothing further being stated. This form occurs here, not as an individual variation, but at least as a race, perhaps a species.

Eudamus coyate: Expands 2⅛i inches. Primaries dark glossy brown, several shades darker than Eudam. bathyllus; fringes of same colour as the wings. The apices of the wings run more to a point than in other species of the genus. There are no markings on the primaries, although there are some very faint indications of markings, which are not brought out by transmitted light. Secondaries immaculate and same colour as primaries, but with well marked dirty white fringes.

This paper contains descriptions entirely of Southern New Mexican forms, with the exception of two from the State of Chihuahua, Mexico.

Sarcomacronychia sarcophagoides, n. sp. ♀.

Eyes brown; frontal vitta narrow, blackish, front one-fourth width of head; sides of front, face and cheeks silvery-white; the double rows of frontal bristles nearly equal; vibrissæ distinct, short, decussate, inserted well above oral margin; antennæ and arista blackish, second antennal joint slightly rufous at ends, third one and a-half times as long as second; proboscis black, labella brown; palpi slender, brown; occiput cinerous, short black-bristly.

Nowehere in the flora or insect fauna do we see it better illustrated than by some of our Argynnids and Asclepiadaceœ. It must therefore be admitted that these Asclepiads are striking example of entomophilous of insect-loving plants, and anyone in quest of insects will not be disappointed by dilgently studying the distribution of the Milk-weed family. Lepidoptera and hymenoptera visit these plants.

Pyrausta nigralis, n. sp.

Expanse of wings, 18 mm. The entire body and wings above and beneath, black; pecuts and base of the palpi, snow white. The outer line is represented by a nearly straight, snow white stripe, which starts from the outer third of the costa and extends nearly halfway across the wing and a spot on the fold near the outer third of the hinder margin below a similar spot on the endo of the cell.

Ichthyrua multnoma N. SP.

Ground colour of primaries dark “ecur drab” (Ridg. iii., 21, * but much darker), heavily irrorate with “clove brown” (Ridg. iii., 2.) scales which almost entirely obscure the ground colour at the basal portion fo the wings as well as outside the third and fourth lines. First (basal) transverse line faintly yellowish, inwardly arcuate from internal margin to median vein, then rectangularly bent towards the base and following the median vein for about 1.5 mm, when it is again bent at right angles and proceeds straight to costa.

We have much pleasure in recording that on the 20th of April last the Degree of “Doctor Philosophiæ Materialis” was conferred (honoris causa) upon Baron Charles Robert Osten Sacken, by the University of Heidelberg. This recognition of an Entomologist who as done such eminent service in North America will, we are sure, be very gratifying to our readers.