[Sept., '02 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 2OJ 



Hypcraspis pingnis Casey, I query Lit, rails Mills, and the 

 same with la-ripen >ih Casey ; icickhami Casey -- caitnil/s Muls. ; 

 t^lolndu Casey extends into Mexico (Vera Cruz) ; 6-rcrnicn(<t 

 Fabr. occurs from Texas, Colorado, Arizona. It seems strange 

 Mr. Casey should have written so elaborate a paper without 

 seeing examples of tirdata, pm/nisis, etc. I have sundry speci- 

 mens which do not fit in anywhere, but without a much larger 

 series should hesitate to call them new. Mr. Casey's treatment 

 of the genus seems incomplete and unsatisfactory. 



Scri>//ts is a wilderness, though I have the benefit of all 

 Mr. Wickham's material, most of which was worked over by 

 Dr. Horn ; I am lost in Mr. Casey's windings bnini/cscci/s 

 Casey was apparently thought by Horn to be a variety of tcr- 

 minatus Say, subtropicus Case}' = collaris Mels., Tcxanus Casey 

 -fratcrnns Lee., rcnoicus Casey and calairras Casey : = tactts- 

 fris Lee. 



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Lantern Trapping. 



BY E. J. SMITH, Natick, Mass. 



For the past two seasons I have been using a moth trap, and 

 had such good luck with it that I would like to tell your readers 

 about it. The trap I used was designed by Mr. A. P. Morse 

 of Wellesley College, who kindly lent it to me. It consists of 

 a box of wood having glass on each of its four sides, and a 

 cover with arrangement for outlet of heat and smoke similar 

 to ordinary old style street lanterns. At the bottom are holes 

 for ingress of air. The box is large enough to contain an 

 ordinary kerosene lain]) with chimney, and is supported over 

 a wooden box about is inches square, which in turn contains 

 a zinc pan about 2 inches deep, and as large as will go in the 

 box. At the base of each pane of glass is a slot the whole 

 width of the glass and about one inch wide which opens 

 directly into the pan below. The pan is filled about half full 

 of water, and then about a pint of kerosene is poured on top. 

 The moth strikes the glass and falls through the slot and is 

 killed by the oil. I have taken hundreds of moths in a single 

 night, and for many weeks in succession. I let it burn until 

 it goes out, putting enough oil in the lamp to last until towards 



