28 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Jan., '06 



Ponera hendersoni n. sp. 



?. Length about n mm. ; black ; anterior wing about 8 mm. ; head 

 rather small, length slightly over 2 mm. ; width of abdomen a little over 

 2 mm. Nervures strong and dark ; the venation is in general similar to 

 that of P. coarctata Latr., (cf. Wheeler, Biol. Bull., 1900, p. 47), but dif- 

 fers as follows : Stigma longer and narrower, its lower edge nearly 

 straight ; marginal cell longer, but not approaching so near the apex of 

 the wing, the latter being also more produced ; costal cell broader in the 

 middle, and giving off the basal nervure further from the stigma ; first 

 submarginal cell long, though not as long as the marginal ; the first sub- 

 marginal extends further basad than in P. coarctata, but not so far apicad, 

 as the radial nervure is given off about the middle of the stigma, instead 

 of beyond its middle as in P. coarctata ; first discoidal cell longer, being 

 much longer than high, with the first recurrent nervure more oblique ; 

 second submarginal cell about as in P. coarctata. Femora rather broad. 

 The abdomen and other parts seem to present no distinctive features, 

 except tbat the ocelli are smaller and closer together than in P. coarctata. 



Named after the collector, who is a well-known student of 

 Colorado palaeontology. Type in the University of Colorado 

 Museum ; it is intended to publish a figure later in connection 

 with a general account of the Florissant collections. 



Children, if you meet a cricket, 

 Please remember not to kick it ; 

 Not a youth whose nature's sweet'll 

 Strike a ladybug or beetle. 



If a daddy longlegs passes, 



Do not slay it (as alas ! is 



Often done by wicked urchins, 



Who deserve the soundest birchin's). 



When a gnat that lively hummer, 

 Which you'll hear when it is summer, 

 Comes a-buzzing round your hat, it 

 Is wrong to throw a pebble at it. 



Do not think me sentimental 

 When I ask you to be gentle 

 With the insect population 

 Of our free and glorious nation. 



If you're kind in this partic'lar, 



They will buzz in your auric'lar ; 



Every child, of course, can see 



What a pleasure that will be. London Globe. 



