310 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Oct., '06 



THE September issue of the NEWS contains an article by Mr. T. D. A. 

 Cockerell on preoccupied generic names of Coleoptera. No. 8 of this 

 article reads: "Polystoma Steph., 1835 (not Led., 1800); Etnplenota 

 Casey, 1884, is available." 



I have no means to verify whether Lederstroem's (I believe) 

 Polystoma in Vermes is still a valid generic name; if so, Polystoma 

 Steph. must fall, and Casey's Emplenota takes its place. Polystoma 

 Steph.. however, has been lately universally assigned only a subgeneric 

 rank of Aleochara. On page 244 of the same article the parallel between 

 Coenonycha Horn, 1876, not Cocnonica Kraats, 1857, is not a good 

 illustration of the subject in discussion, as Coenonycha is derived from 

 the Greek roinos (common) and onyx (nail), whereas Coenonica is 

 composed of the words roinos and oikos (house). A. FENYES. 



TACHYRIS ILAIRE IN WEST VIRGINIA. On June 12, 1906, while walk- 

 ing through a grassy orchard at French Creek, West Virginia, a large 

 white butterfly of unfamiliar appearance flew leisurely toward me and 

 alighted upon a red clover blossom. Calling to my little son, who was 

 chasing fritillaries near by, I took his net and caught the stranger. An 

 examination of the butterfly showed it to be a very well preserved male 

 of Tachyris ilalrc. The specimen is marked like those from Florida 

 described by Dr. Henry Skinner in ENT. NEWS, May 10, 1894, and for 

 which he proposed the varietal name ncumoegcnii. The wings above 

 are white, without the dark tips seen in the examples from Central 

 America. Beneath, the primaries show at the base distinct markings 

 of orange, and the secondaries are pale lemon-yellow. 



This butterfly was taken within fifty yards of the spot where on 

 October I5th, 1905, I caught a Vanncssa j-album as it fluttered about 

 beneath the clap-board roof of an old wagon-shed. So far as my 

 knowledge extends, these are the only specimens of the two species that 

 have been collected in West Virginia, and they probably represent two of 

 the most extreme southern and northern forms which visit this locality. 

 FRED E. BROOKS. 



PROF. H. A. SURFACE, Economic Zoologist of Pennsylvania, states 

 that his present scientific assistants are A. F. Satterthwaith, Clerk; 

 N. G. Miller, Assistant, with the degree of Master of Sciences from 

 the Pennsylvania State College, ; L. R. White, Bachelor of Sciences, 

 Pennsylvania State College ; T. C. LeFevre, Bachelor of Science, Penn- 

 sylvania State College; D. K. McMillan, Bachelor of Science, Dickinson 

 College; Chas. F. Noll, Bachelor of Science in Agriculture, Pennsyl- 

 vania State College; W. H. Wolff, Bachelor of Science in Agriculture, 

 Pennsylvania State College; P. H. Hertzog, Bachelor of Pedagogy; 

 F. Z. Hartzell, Bachelor of Science in Biology, Lafayette College, and 

 W. R. McConnell. Bachelor of Sciences in Biology, Pennsylvania State 

 College. Some of these men are in the field as inspectors and others 



