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is of a light brownish tinge; so much so is this the case that the 

 transverse macular bands are very indistinct. The secondaries of the 

 female, which is smaller than the male, and is also pinned to show 

 the under surface, are likewise suffused with a light brown tinge." 



Mr. Gerhard says the male has the tuft of hairs near the 

 base of the hind tibiae. Unless it can be shown that the de- 

 scription of montiragus represents something different from 

 these types, montivagus Reak. becomes a synonym of syrichtus 

 Fab. 



A new Tachytes from Georgia (Hymenop.tLarridae). 



By J. CHESTER BRADLEY, Cornell University, Ithaca, 



New York. 



Tachytes auricomans n. sp. 



$ . Color, pile and wing color as in crassits, the golden pubescence 

 very pronounced. Length 16 mm. 



Agrees in structure and sculpture with crassns, except in the fol- 

 lowing points : segments 4 and following of the antennae are less 

 rounded out beneath than are those of crassns; the vertex less nar- 

 rowed; (in crassns the least distance between the eyes is scarcely if 

 any more than the length of the 3rd antennal segment, in auricomans 

 it is considerably more) ; clypeus with the external lateral tooth acute 

 and prominent, the anterior border between these teeth evenly and" but 

 slightly rounded (in crassns these teeth are blunt and not so promi- 

 nent, and the middle part of the margin between them is produced 

 into a small rounded lobe). 



Habitat. Georgia : Oglethorpe, 1 July, 1910, 3 $ (the 

 author) . 



T\f>c. Holotvpc, Cornell University, No. 147.1, paratype. 

 No. 147.2 ; paratype in collection of Georgia State Board of 

 Entomology. 



Sugaring for Moths (Lepid.). 



It is possible that moths, like some people, will not greatly fancy 

 the new near-beer, in place of their old tipple of stale beer and brown 

 sugar. So here is a new recipe and a suggestion. 



While camping this summer, my wife tried to make some wild 

 goose-berry jelly. Being a long ways from a source of supply, she 

 used too little sugar, and the result was a sticky syrup that did not 

 "jell." Part of it fermented, standing in a glass jar where the sun 

 hit it. I poured the fermented goose-berry syrup down an alder, and 

 that evening found four Catocalae, besides several small Noctuids, 

 on the one tree-trunk. Unfortunately, 1 did not have enough sugar to 

 experiment further, but it is very likely that the fermented juice of 

 any local fruit or berry, with a little sugar added, possesses the proper 

 "kick" to attract moths. I had tried the regulation mixture of beer 

 and sugar, in other years, in the same locality, and never had a single 

 Noctuid come to the bait. W. H. IRF.I.ANH, Maricopa, California. 



