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Notes and News. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL GLEANINGS FROM ALL QUARTERS OF THE GLOBE. 



DR. HERMAN STRECKER has completed his valuable index to the 

 species in Kirby's Lepidoptera Heterocera. Vol. 1, and is now pre- 

 paring- a list of the 41 7 types in his collection. This will be Supple 

 ment JII to his Lepid<.ptera Rl.op. et Heterocera. These publica- 

 tions may be obtained from the author. 



MR. LANCASTER THOMAS has returned from his annual trip to 

 Cranberry, N. C., and reports that the collecting was unusually 

 poor owing to the very dry weather during the summer. 



DR. WILLIAM BARNES was fairly successful in his collecting trip 

 to Southern Arizona. 



PROF. H. A. PILSBRY collected a lot of interesting Cychrus at 

 Olingmau's Dome, Blouut Co., Tenn. They are now in the fine col- 

 lection of Mr. H AY. Weuzel, of Philadelphia. 



I NOTICE in the report of the American Entomological Society . 

 held June22d, that you reported Jlelitauea hurrisii as having been 

 taken at Lopez, Sullivan county. Pa. I took one good specimen of 

 same, June 15th, at Plymouth. Luzerne county, Pa. .but saw no 

 others. This is the first specimen I have taken in my four years 

 collecting in this vicinity and have not heard of its being taken by 

 anyone else around here. 



I took one good fresh specimen of Enptoieta eland ia in Septem- 

 ber, 1898 and another in September. 180!). ALFRED E. LISTER. 



NOTES ON EXTRA ROLANDIANA. While looking through some old 

 volumes of Psyche recently I noticed in II., p 39. the description 

 and an account of the habits of the larva of Es (//<( rolcmdiana by 

 Mr. Thaxter. The species is quite common in Durham wherever 

 its food plant (/Sarracenia) flourish es,and the larvae have been found 

 not in the leaves as described by Mr. Thaxter. but within the flow- 

 ers and buds the last of May and first of June. The imago appears 

 the last of June and first of July, and has been observed resting in 

 the leaves of its food plant. 



Mr. Thaxter says that the larva is "delicate and difficult to rear" 

 but such was not my experience with those taken well along to- 

 ward maturity. About half a dozen were collected the last week 

 in May and placed in wide mouthed vials with a piece ef the ovary 

 of the pitcher plant flower, securely plugged with cotton and left 

 to themselves. Most of them completely finished the food that was 

 given them and one or two were dwarfed for lack of more, but 

 every one ot the lot produced a perfect imago. 1 would recom- 

 mend collectors who have access to a swamp in which pitcher plain 



