Oct., '05] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 275 



Notes and. Ne\vs. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL GLEANINGS FROM ALL QUARTERS 



OF THE GLOBE. 



DR. E. C. VAN DYKK, of the San Francisco Academy, was after Cole- 

 optera on Mount Rainier. 



HENRY L. VIERECK spent the summer in Connecticut and is now in 

 Philadelphia, hard at work on Medicine. 



MR. CHAS. SCHAEFFER, of the Brooklyn Institute, spent the summer 

 collecting in Miller Canyon, Huachuca Mountain^, Cochise County, 

 Arizona. Messrs. H. G. BARBER and G. Beyer were collecting in the 

 same locality. 



DR. D. M. CASTLE and H. A. Wenzel were collecting Coleoptera on 

 Tybee Island, Georgia. They found some very interesting species, 

 mostly Coleoptera of a more Southern range. 



DR. HENRY SKINNER spent five weeks with Mr. C. R. Biederman, 

 collecting all orders of insects in Carr Canyon, Huachuca Mountains, 

 Arizona.* In addition to insects, sixteen species of reptiles were secured. 

 The red bug in Southern Arizona may be the same species that is found 

 in the East, but none were dug out to determine this. 



COCOONS OF POLYPHEMUS. For more than twenty years Miss Eliot 

 and I have been very familiar with Telca polyphemus in all its stages, 

 have reared it many times, have found the cocoons out of doors, as well 

 as moths and larvae. Three years ago a cocoon was sent me from 

 Georgia having every appearance of polyphemus except that it had a 

 " stem " like that of promcthea cocoons. The moth had been devoured 

 by some creature, except the wings, thorax, head, antense, and eggs, 

 the last being loose in the cocoon, and all resembling polyphemus. 



In our experience in Eastern New York, Massachusetts, New Hamp- 

 sphire and Vermont polyphemns cocoons were always ovoid, opaque 

 white cocoons without stem or loose silk, almost always found on the 

 ground, and, when on branches of trees or shrubs, held by threads spun 

 against never around the twig, and never covering the leaf stem. 



I began inquiring of my correspondents, and found that one, in New 

 York, found more suspended than free cocoons ; while one in Indiana 

 had always found suspended cocoons except in one instance. 



After the rirst reply I tried giving polyphemus larva' small branches 

 when spinning-time came, but not one of my Vermont or Massachusetts 

 larvae would spin a stem to its cocoon. Every one drew leaves together 

 in the bottom of the cage and spun on the ground there. 



I greatly wish to know if this difference is a recognized local difference 

 or merely an accidental one, and I shall be very grateful for all reports 

 of experience from every one who will be kind enough to write to me. 

 CAROLINE GRAY Son K, 1*7 Walnut Street, Bronklinr, 



\\V will be glad to hear of other collecting expeditions. 



