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Professor H. F. Wickham (List of the Coleoptera of Iowa, 1909). 

 gives the following Iowa records : Eleodes suturalis Say, "Lyon 

 County." Elcodes tricostata Say, "Elma, Ames, Independence; and 

 Lyon, Dickinson, Emmet and Woodbury Counties." The Dickinson 

 County records are based on specimens taken in the vicinity of Lake 

 Okoboji, by B. Shimek, O. W. Rosewall and A. O. Thomas. In this 

 locality the species seems quite abundant. DAYTON STONER, State 

 University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa. 



Andrena dunningi Ckll. (Hymen.) 



Since this species was described from Connecticut in 1898, a good 

 deal of confusion has arisen concerning it. In ENTOM. NEWS, July, 

 1907, p. 286, Viereck writes A. nh'alis Sm., with synonyms pnini, dun- 

 ningi, viciniformis, coni'exa and viburnella. However, in the separate 

 he kindly sent to me, he has in a manuscript emendation removed 

 pruni, dunningi and z'iburnclla from the synonymy of nivalis, making 

 I'ibiirnclla a sub-species of A. pcrplc.va, and [>runi a distinct species 

 with synonym dunningi. It is certain that dunningi is not nivalis (the 

 type of which I have seen) ; they not only differ in their characters, 

 but Dr. Graenicher finds their time of flight is different. The charac- 

 ters of dunningi are not those of pruni, but the description of z'icini- 

 forniis agrees with dunningi. I have just received a post card from 

 Mr. Charles Robertson in which he states that his viciniformis is iden- 

 tical with dunningi; the latter has two years' priority. The insect is 

 well distinguished from A. pruni in both sexes, as shown in Robert- 

 son's tables, Trans. Arner. Ent. Soc., XXVIII, pp. 190-192. T. D. A. 

 COCKERELL. 



Notes on Lycaena neurona (Lepid.). 



This species was described from the female sex, in ENTOMOLOGICAL 

 NEWS, vol. 13, p. 15, 1902. T had at that time five specimens that I 

 took to represent both sexes, but I did not dissect out the genitalia 

 to be sure. They came from Doble, California, which place Mr. W. G 

 Wright in his "Butterflies of the West Coast" describes as follows: 

 "It is a high mountain valley 6,500 feet in altitude, the northern and 

 eastern sides being bordered by the Mojave Desert. But few forms 

 of butterfly life are present there, but the few which do occur may 

 well be variations of one kind or another. The locality Doble, is at 

 the upper end of Bear Valley, in San Bernardino County, California; 

 the grassy valley is surrounded with pine-clad mountains." 



I have recently had a letter from Mr. H. H. Newcomb, of Venice, 

 California, in relation to this species. He took ten males and seven 

 females, last August, at the top of Mt. Wilson, Los Angeles County, 

 Cal., on a little patch of ground one hundred by three hundred feet. 



