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ence in collecting and classifying specimens. Only the barest necessi- 

 ties of life are taken along. 



All the many thousand specimens in the University of Kansas col- 

 lection have not been the direct result of Dr. Snow's expeditions. Some 

 have been obtained by trading duplicate specimens. Especially is this 

 true in the beetle collection. Tn one of his earliest expeditions in Logan 

 County in the summer of 1877. Dr. Snow made a genuine find, a giant 

 tii;tT beetle. Amblycheila cylindriformis, then an extremely rare species 

 and valued at $25. Early in the morning was the best time to capture 

 these valuable specimens, so every day the entire party would be up 

 before sunrise and off to the haunts of the tiger beetle at the foot of 

 some cliffs nearby. Down on their hands and knees they would go and 

 the active search for the $25 specimens would begin. 



In all a thousand specimens were obtained of this valuable beetle, 

 and it was by trading these that the foundation of the beetle collection 

 was made. Twenty-five dollars' worth of the insects for each giant tiger 

 beetle soon caused the collection to swell wonderfully in proportions, 

 but in time the market became flooded with the beetles and their 

 value depreciated accordingly. 



NAMES OF COLEOPTERA. I am greatly indebted to Mr. E. Bergroth for 

 some corrections to my paper in the September NEWS. Helopcllis 

 Horn, is Helobata Bergroth, Deutsche Ent. Zeitschr.. 1888. p. 222, and 

 our species will be Helobata larralis. Ino. Lap. is Inoplcctus Smith. 

 1851. Our species will be Inoplectus rcclusus (Lee.) and I. immuudus 

 (Reit). Drapetcs Redt. stands as Drapetes Meg. "is not a published 

 name." ll'ollastoniella was used by Renter in Hemiptera in 1884 (it is 

 not in the Index Zoologicus) ; Wollastoma Horn may become Para- 

 hornia n. n. ; type Parahornia quercicola (Boh.). 



A few misprints are confusing enough to be worth correcting: p. 240, 

 for Diplochclia read Diplochcila; p. 244, for Amblychelia read Ambly- 

 clicila; for month, read Montf. ; for 2 and 9 read Q. and G. (Quoy and 

 Gaimard). T. D. A. COCKERELL. 



A FEW CORRECTIONS. "On some new species of Geometrid 

 from Arizona and California.'' described by Rev. George W. Taylor in 

 the June iss'iie of the ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. Vol. xvii. No. 6. the folln\\ 

 ing errors in spelling should be corrected: Page 188, description i. 

 should read MclcHiaca instead of Mclcmaca rii-guta. according to tin- 

 original description by Mr. Hulst in the "Trans Am. Ent. Soc.." xxiii. 

 September. 1896. page 340. 



Description No. 5, page 190, should read Eucmcra instead of 

 F.ncincra sinnilaria, as both Mr. Dyar and Mr. Smith are incorrect 

 according to the original descriptions by Mr. Tlulst in the "Tr.'ins Am 

 Ent. Soc.," Vol. xxiii, page 368. Louis W. SWKTT. 



