364 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Oct., 'l2 



Notes and News. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL GLEANINGS FROM ALL QUARTERS 

 OP THE GLOBE. 



NOTES OF MEXICAN BARIDS (CURCULIONINAE.) COLEOP. Dr. A. 

 Fenyes has recently sent to the British Museum a small 

 collection of 42 species of Barids from Mexico, mostly collected by 

 himself in Vera Cruz. These insects have been handed over to me 

 for determination, and though there is nothing new amongst them, 

 there are several interesting forms, including three additions to the 

 Mexican list. The additions are : Cyrionyx exig^^ns, Ch., from Ori- 

 zaba* and Matamoros Izucar*; Geraeus undatus, Ch., from Cordoba*; 

 and Eurhinopsis viridicolor, Ch., from Cordoba* ; the types of all of 

 which came from more southern localities in Central America. The 

 other species of interest are Pseudorhianus imprettus, Ch. ; one male 

 with the characteristic prosternal tuft of hairs, from Cuernavaca*; 

 Geraeus arcuatirosfris, Ch., from Orizaba* ; G. dispositus, Ch., one 

 pair from Cuernavaca* (described from a single $ ; the ? has the 

 rostrum abruptly narrowed beyond the middle, (as in various other 

 species of the genus) ; G. bipustulatus, Ch.,* Cordoba; Cylindrocerinus 

 tubifer, Ch., two specimens, 'Cuernavaca; Anisorrhamphus squam- 

 iventris, Ch., Cordoba* ; Pseud obaris gibbicollis, Ch., Jalapa* ; P. 

 dcntipcs, Ch., Cuernavaca and Matamoros Izucar*; P. cylindricollis, 

 Ch., Matamoros Izucar* and Puebla*; P. leucostigma, Ch., Cordoba; 

 P. cribrella, Sol., Cordoba* and Orizaba*; Dolichobaris schwarzi, Ch., 

 Cordoba*; Boris corrusca, Boh., Puebla* and Atlixco* ; B. implana, 

 Ch., Cordoba*. The localities marked with an asterisk are additional 

 to those given in the Biol. of Centr.-Am. Coleopt. Vol. IV. part 5. 

 G. C. CHAMPION, Woking, England. 



A COSTA RICAN INDIAN SUPERSTITION CONCERNING A MECISTO- 

 GASTER DRAGONFLY (ODONATA). {In February, 1912, in the pe- 

 ninsula of Nicoya, Costa Rica], only once we saw a single Mecisto- 

 gastcr in Rio Bueno Vista. In this place the forest is so dense 

 that it was impossible to catch it. I returned several times to the 

 same place, but no other specimen was seen. People here say that 

 this pipilacha (Mccistogaster) is common in some years. 

 An old man told me that this was not a pipilacha at 

 all, but a human spirit, because they have not head or body, only 

 wings! When a person dies, the spirit (soul) begins to fly for 

 some days in the woods and nobody can disturb it. It seems to me 

 that this is an Indian belief that is worth noting. J. FID. TRISTAN, 

 San Jose, Costa Rica. 



