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Costa Rica 2000 meters Sept. ; Orosi, Costa Rica 1200 me- 

 ters Nov.-Feb. 



It is difficult to say just where the specimens were taken. 

 Holotype, $- - Costa Rica (Sr. Picado, coll.) Allotype, 9 

 with the type. Paratypes, 4 9 's with the type. 



All of the types in U. S. Nat. Mus. Coll. (Type No. 14,957). 

 The species is conspicuously different from the six Neotropical 

 species of Mongoma that are known to me in its striking leg- 

 pattern. Whether or not the long ovipositor has a significance 

 in the manner of egg-deposition is a question for the collector 

 to verify ; a similar condition exists in the females of other 

 species and it is possible that these may, likewise, have this pe- 

 culiar larval habitat. But one Mongoma has ever been reared 

 hitherto. De Meijere has recently 1 described the larva and 

 pupa of the East Indian M. pennipes O. S. (I.e.; p. 50, 51 ; fig. 

 41, pupa). He states that Mr. Jacobson found the larvae at 

 Semarang (Java), Jan., 1906, in decaying plant-stems. 



In conclusion, I would mention the rearing from Bromeliads 

 of one of the "false crane-flies" bv Sr. Picado. an^l its recent 

 characterization as Anisopus picturatus 2 by Mr. Knab. 



A School of Entomology in New York City. 



PARK COMMISSIONER STOVER, of New York City, has decided to es- 

 tablish a school of entomology in Central Park, so that old and young 

 nature lovers may take a practical course in the study of butterflies, 

 bumble bees, dragon flies, beetles and otber insects. 



The place of study is to be in the Swedish schoolhouse. This build- 

 ing was prepared in Sweden for the Centennial Exhibition at Phila- 

 delphia in 1876, as a model of the national schools of that country. 

 After the exhibition the park board bought this building and trans- 

 ferred it to Central Park. 



The building will immediately be fitted up. Dr. Edmund B. South- 

 wick, the entomologist of the park department, will be in charge. 

 The North American. 



i Studien iiber sudostasiatische Dipteren. Pt. 5. 'Ostindische Tip- 

 ulidae, von Dr. J. C. H. De Meijere. Tijd. von Ent. Apr., 1911; p. 

 21-79; pi. 4; f. 1-40. 



* New Species of Anisopidse (Rhyphidse) from Tropical America 

 (Diptera; Nemocera), by Frederick Knab. Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash.; 

 Vol. 25, p. 111-114; reprint dated June 29, 1912. 



