82 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Feb., 'l/ 



This year I used jelly glasses, and my efforts were crowned with suc- 

 cess. The glasses were sunk in the earth with the tops level with 

 the ground. About two inches above the glass a flat stone or piece 

 of board was placed to keep out the rain. In each glass I placed about 

 an inch of molasses. The dark New Orleans molasses seems to be 

 the best to bait the traps with. In removing the insects from the 

 traps I used a rather stiff, flat brush about a half-inch in width, with 

 which I transferred the insects to a wide mouth bottle of alcohol. In 

 the thirty-eight years that I have been collecting, I have turned over 

 thousands of stones and logs, and raked over a few hay-wagon loads 

 of dead leaves, and have only found eight specimens of Carabus scr- 

 ratus, while my four traps in four weeks caught forty-six specimens. 

 This is not an exceptional case, as in the same time I removed as many 

 specimens of Cychrus stenostomus and Dicaclus dilatatus from the 

 traps as I have found in twenty years. The Cychrus and Carabus 

 have no membranous wings, so, not being able to fly, we seldom find 

 them around the electric lights; but they manage to walk, crawl or 

 stumble into the molasses traps. 



Carabidae are the principal beetles attracted, but quite a number of 

 beetles belonging to other families will be found in the traps, as well 

 as many insects belonging to orders other than Coleoptera. In all 

 the articles published on "Directions for Collecting and Preserving 

 Insects" that I have consulted, little or nothing is mentioned about this 

 way of collecting. -PHILIP LAURENT, Philadelphia, Pa. 



Some Synonymy in the Hesperidae (Lep.). 



Nearly twenty-four years ago I described a Pamphila in the Strecker 

 ".ollection and called it streckeri in honor of the owner of the specimen. 

 I was told it was taken in Florida and had no reason at that time for 

 doubting the correctness of the statement. As the species has not been 

 found in Florida since, there is good reason for doubting the locality 

 given for the type of streckeri, although it is not impossible that it may 

 be found in that State. In the winter of 1914 I paid a visit to my 

 friend Mr. Charles T. Ramsden, who lived on the San Carlos planta- 

 tion near Guantanamo, Oriente, Cuba. While collecting a few miles from 

 San Carlos I took two specimens of a Pamphila which reminded me of 

 streckeri although I had not seen the latter for so many years. The 

 two specimens were taken February nth. I sent a specimen of the 

 Cuban species to Mr. W. J. Gerhard at the Field Museum, Chicago, to 

 be compared with the type of streckeri, and he reported them to be the 

 same. Also the description of streckeri agrees perfectly with the Cuban 

 specimens. 



The species was originally described under the name radians in 1857 

 and the synonymy is as follows 



1857. Hesperia radians Luc., Sagra, Hist. Cuba, p. <>50. 



1881. Pamphila radians Gundl., Cont. Entom. Cubana, p. 151. 



1893. Pamphila streckeri Skinner, Ent. News, p. 211. 



We will know some day whether radians is found in Florida or con- 

 fined to the West Indies. 



HENRY SKINNER. 



