Clothes moths are the chief household pests in Vancouver, British Columbia. Two species occur, Tineola biselliella St. the webbing clothes moth and Tinea pelionella L. the case-making clothes moth; the former is uncomfortably abundant while the latter is rare.

Professor W.H. Brittain has sent me a small lot of Andrena collected this year, and among them I find a species so striking that it should be described at once. As I am leaving for Africa it will be impossible to deal with the rest of the collection at this time.

This species, described from a single rather imperfect male specimen, was found very abundantly in certain sections of the Knowlton, Que. region in 1929 and 1930, the adults swarming at dusk and mating on warm evenings in the latter half of June. The very striking nymph was also secured in the small brooks of the Bolton Pass section, four or five miles south of Knowlton. The following notes on the species are offered to supplement the original description.

The writer has been working on the food plants of the leaf-hoppers for many years and has found in the main the different species of the genus Platymetopius, as commonly recognized, are very closely confined to a single species of plant or to a closely related group. Before it was possible to prepare a list of the food plants in the group it was found necessary to describe a number of new species of which food plant and life history information was available. In working out the relationship of these species, two startling discoveries were made.