ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION, ACADEMY NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. VOL. i. MARCH, 1890. No. 3. CONTENTS: Wickham Notes from Northwest 3^ Robertson Notes on Bombus 39 Wadsworth List of Dragonflies 36 Notes and News 41 Lugger Fond of Grammar 38 f Ives Method of Egg Deposition 39 Entomological Literature 44 Doings of Societies 48 NOTES FROM THE NORTHWEST. BY H. F. WICKHAM. The following notes were made on my collecting trip in the summer of 1889, and may be of interest to the readers of EXTO-MOLOGJCAL NEWS. The species of Cychrus included in the subgenus Brennus are said by Dr. Horn (Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. VII, p, 176) to be " pe-culiar to the true Pacific coast fauna of North America." This summer I took the common C. marginatus Fisch. at Mullan, Mon. , and again at Helena in the same State, which extends the range a long way east. These examples differ from the western ones by being smaller and of a more uniform black. Carabus mccander occurs in the Rocky Mountains at Mullan j Mon. A special search for Pselaphidae brought to light only the fol-lowing species: Ctenistes pulvereus Lee. , one specimen under a stone at The Dalles, Oregon. Three examples of Pselaphns