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January 89o.] I?’. TC[-IE 295 past summer, in explorations for the with many of our vertebrate types, and Geological survey, I found that the as has not yet been done for insects in any strata of a considerable tract of country, country in the world. Nor are we certainly many, probably hundreds of, confined to our later beds; insect de- square miles in extent, lying in western posits have now been found in a score Colorado and eastern Utah, xvere packed of places in our extensive carboniferous with fossil insects as closely as at Flor- series, and it is in no way improbable issant, where they occupy a lake basin that we may find our own Commentry of relatively small proportions: whether to double the value of the French dis- these new localities will excel or even covery. What we really need is a score equal that place in the variety of their of trained workers to go in and pos- fossil treasures, is yet to be determined; sess the land. No one would welcome but there can hardly be any doubt that them more heartily than one who is we shall soon be able in our western almost a solitary worker in the Ameri- territories to rehabilitate successive can field. faunas as successfilly as has been done THE AMERICAN PLUM BORER ’EUZOPHERA SEMI-FUNERALIS’ WALK. BY STEPHEN AI,FRED FORBES CttAMPAIGN IIL. Although various boring insects have now aware. In a species first described occasionally attacked the plum, these (in this country) in 887, and whose have been species whose principal inju- immature stages have remained un- ries are done to other trees, and no dis- known until the present time, we have tinctive plum borer