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ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 



[Nov., '05 



Notes and. News. 



DR. EWALD BERGROTH, the well known Finnish dipterist, has emigra- 

 ted to this country on account of the political difficulties of his native 

 land, and after a summer in Alaska has settled in Seattle. His address 

 is The Plaza, 1403 Third Avenue. 



PROFESSOR J. M. ALDRICH has a year's leave of absence from the 

 University of Idaho, which he is spending at Stanford University. His 

 address is 325 Hamilton Avenue, Palo Alto, California. 



"NEW" FACTS THAT ARE NOT NEW. If some of our entomologists 

 would take the trouble to do a little reading before printing their obser- 

 vations, they might save valuable space in the current magazines. Two 

 cases in point occur in the October NEWS. Mr. Sherman records obser- 

 vations on Harrisimemna trisignata (page 254) and Miss Soule on Telea 

 polyphemus (page 275). 



Tne pupation of Harrisimemna has long been known, since 1840, when 

 Harris wrote to Melsheimer (Ent. Corr. T. W. Harris, pp. 114, 174, 1869). 

 The forming of the burrows is carefully described by Goodhue (Can. 

 Ent., xviii, 58, 1886). Other references to the larva are found in Pack- 

 ard's Guide, p. 304, 1869 ; ENT. NEWS, vi, 340, 1895 ; Proc. U. S. Nat. 

 Mus., xxi, 183, 1898 and Lugger's Fourth Rept. Ins. Minnesota, 157, 1898. 



Concerning Mr. Sherman's query as to whether similar pupating habits 

 are known in other Lepidoptera, the case of Polygrammate hebraicum 

 occurs to me (Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xxi, 9 note, 1898). There are 

 doubtless others. The use of wood chips in cocoons and the partial hol- 

 lowing of wooden surfaces is common in many genera, e. g. Apatela 

 among Noctuids, Centra in Notodontians and Tacoma in Pyralids. The 

 burrowing habit is doubtless a development of this. 



The stemmed cocoons of Telea polyphemus referred to by Miss Soule, 

 have been described by Grote (Proc. Am. Philos. Soc. xli, 401, 1902) and 

 commented on by Cockle (Can. Ent , xxxv, 139, 1903). HARRISON G. 

 DYAR, Washington, D. C. 



AT THE Field Meeting of the Newark, Brooklyn, New York and Phila- 

 delphia Entomological Societies at Jamesburg, N. J.. on July 4, 1905, I 

 was fortunate enough to capture twenty-two species of Tabanidae. 



Two of the species taken ( Chrysops cursim and C. initis] have not 

 been recorded from New Jersey before. All the doubtful material has 

 been kindly identified by Prof. Jas. S. Hine of the Ohio State University, 

 to whom I am greatly indebted. 



The following is a list of the species taken : 



Chrysops callidus O. S. 

 pudicus O. S. 



cursim Whitney. 

 flavidus Wied. 



unirittatiis Macq. 



lugens Wied. 



vitfatus Wied. 

 fallax O. S. 



obsoletus Wied. 



nigribimbo Whitney. 



mitis O. S.* 



Tabanus cinctus Fabr. 

 trispilus Wied. 

 hind Johns. 

 astutus O. S. 

 recedens Walk. 

 pumilus Macq. 

 lineola Fabr. 

 co stalls Wied. 

 sagax O. S. 

 stygius Say. 

 superjumentarius Whit. 

 H. S. HARBECK. 



*Prof. Hine states in reference to specimen sent to him for identifica- 

 tion " according to Osten Sacken's description this would be mi/is." 



