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J. B. Smith has clearly shown that the mandibles are compound in certain of the lamellicorns. In Copris carolina (Fig. 50), he says, the small membranous mandibles are divided into a basal piece (basalis), the homologue of the stipes in the maxilla; another of the basal pieces he calls the molar, and this is the equivalent of the subgalea, while a third sclerite, only observed in Copris, is the conjunctivus, the lacinia (prostheca) being well developed. Smith therefore concludes “that the structure of the mandible is fundamentally the same as that of the labium and maxilla, and that we have an equally complex organ in point of origin. Its usual function, however, demands a powerful and solid structure, and the sclerites are in most instances as thoroughly chitinized and so closely united to the others that practically there is only a single piece, in which the homology is obscured.” (Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc., xix, pp. 84, 85. 1892.) From the studies of Smith and our observations on Staphylinus, Passalus, Phanæus, etc. (Fig. 50, A, B) we fully agree with the view that the mandibles are primarily 3–lobed appendages like the maxillæ. Nymphal Ephemerids have a lacinia-like process. (Heymons.)