14 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [January 



Notes and News. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL GLEANINGS FROM ALL QUARTERS OF THE GLOBE. 



THE NEW PEACH MITE IN OHIO. Apropos to the statement of 

 Prof. W. G. Johnson, in the December, 1898, Dumber of ENTOMO- 

 LOGICAL NEWS, regarding' the occurrence of this pest in Maryland, 

 I will say 'that in August, 1898, my assistant, Mr. C. vV. Mally 

 while inspecting two nurseries in this State, found the injury so 

 characteristically described by Prof. Johnson, but ws not able at 

 the time to determine the nature of the depredator, and for want 

 of time the matter was not followed further. In one very extensive 

 nursery the damage was quite serious, the greater portion of a block 

 of upwards of 500,000 young peach trees showing more or less of the 

 effects of the insect. I may add that the twoaft'ected nurseries were 

 located near to or south of lat. 40 degrees north. F. M. WEBSTER. 



THE new synonymic catalogue of North American butterflies. 

 by Dr. Henry Skinner, is now ready. See advertisement on cover. 



OWING to the fact that we have placed THE NEWS with another 

 printing establishment, not familiar with scientific work, it is un- 

 avoidably late. We will depend on our printer to do better in the 

 future. EDITORS. 



NOTES. Having occasion to overhaul my Mordel- 

 brings a few memoranda that may be of interest. From Pres- 

 cott, Arizona. I have examples of a species of Penfaria, which 

 seems undoubtedly to be decolor Cham])., as described in " Bio- 

 logia,"' vol. iv. pt. 2, p. '256 



A specimen from Yera Cruz, which seems to tit the description of 

 Pentaria brericontis Champ., 1 cannot distinguish from my num- 

 erous specimens offt(*cn/<t Lee from Colo. a:id N. Mex. ; the possi- 

 bility of such identity is spoken of by Mr. Champion (p. 254), but 

 my one specimen does not enable me to do more than partially con- 

 firm this suspicion. A fine example of Tomoxia hilaris S:iy, is 

 among my (Vera Cruz) specimens. 



Mr. Champion gives one distinction (p. 272) between M<>rd<>1l<i 

 melcfna Germ, and urifte/far/a Fab. which is not mentioned bv Smith 

 in his Mordellida-. vol. 10, Trans. Am. Ent Soc.. p. S2, /. < -.. me- 

 Icuna " differs from sciitcllarix by its short clavate antenna-." I find 

 it much the easiest character for separating species. MordcUa xcr- 

 /v//, Say, seems rather a northern species I have one pair from Sal- 

 isbury, Vt., another pair from the subalpiut region of Ml. Wash- 

 ington, N. II., and one specimen from Brookline, Mass. 



Among the material sent me by Mr, Wickham from Mrownsville, 



Texa< (-JS<M. is a single specimen of an interesting' new species of 



Min'ilc/ld. which seems to come near fc//i>i/>fs Champ.; also (298) 



one example of a minute new species of M<>r<l< llixtctnt near 



i if Champ. F.KKD. C. Bowurn n. 



