5 ENTOMOLOGICAL NE\\ -. [April, 



IN answer to Dr. Skinner's artick- in Kvn >MOI.< K.IC'AI. NI-AVS, Vol. i, p. 

 20, in which IK- (k-siivs to correct an error I made in describing tin- cocoon 

 of Cal/osamia an^it/ifem, I should like to say that the < ooii of </;/;'- 

 lifcni, \vliicli I bred, could only be distinguished from that of Iconic I he a 

 by its larger si/e. I ha\e also distinct evidence that the lar\ a of titign- 

 ///(;<? will spin a silken thread, liy means of which it lianas to branches of 

 trees. The cocoon of aiigu lifcra when spun on the ground is exactly as 

 Dr. Skinner describes it. I was unacquainted with this form when ! made 

 my description i Knt. Am. \'. p. 200). \\'.M. Ili-.i n NMU.I.HK. 



What Mr. lieutenmuller says is undoubtedly true, an i^Hlifcra does spin 

 a thread occasionally, but it is the exception that proves the rule. Mr. 

 Philip Laurent, in a large collecting experience found one suspended, all 

 the others he has found were under tulip poplar trees. Mr. !". M. lone-- 

 sent me one with the silken thread. 1 have collected in a single day more 

 than a quart of angulifera cocoons, not all of them alive, however, and 

 never saw one suspended, and for negative evidence I may say I ha\e 

 found thousands of promethia cocoons on poplar, etc., and never had an 

 emerge from them. H. SKINNKK. 



LORD WAI.SINC.IIAM, in his Presidential address, estimated the number 

 of species of insects as upwards of two millions, and further said, "we 

 may well ask ourselves who can venture to assume the appellation of 

 ' Entomologist?' or even of Lepidopterist or Hymenopterist ? Surely, our 

 successors in this Society must one day be content to be called Pieridists. 

 Gelechiclists, Hispidists, or Cicindelidists, according to their ditti-rent 

 branches of study." 



" \\"K have abundant evidence that the whole field of /oolo-ical research 

 apart from Entomology is but small as compared to that in which the I -"el- 

 lows of this Society i Knt. Soc. London are interested, when we see that 

 in Central America one small family of Coleopu-ra, the Hispid. c exce d 

 the whole of the mammalia." 



Dr. W. L. Ar.r.irrr has left the Kilimanjaro region. He was heard from 

 at Zan/ibar, and intended to leave there shortly to study the fauna of the 

 Comoro Islands and Madagascar. 



KKKBIA KIMPSI >DKA. In " P.utlerllies of North America," Pt. 9, Vol. iii, 

 Mr. W. II. Kdwards gives us a very interesting account of /-.'. </>//. v< >i it \ i. 

 I [e gives as its ideographical distribution " Middle ( 'ol, >radi > north wan I to 

 the Arctii Sea." It comes, how<-ver, a little further South than this, and 

 it may be north while to lix its most southern point as at present knoun. 

 Mr. II. \V. Nash informs me that he has taken it at Music Pass, CiMcr 

 ( 'on nt \ , Col., and at I 'x man/a. Sagmache County. Col. The litst , it' these 

 localities is about N. I. at ^S", tin- other is rather more northern. T. P. 



A. CnrKKui LI , West Cliff, Custer County, Col. 



()\ (AM AKV 2oth, while in llaltimoic, I t.iptuied a line specimen of 

 ('/nun tiii(tii\ Drury, iia\\lin- on tin- sid< \\alk. /:"/ v ' the early bug 



( ate lie , (he pin. C'. A. I'.l \K I . 



