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Notes and. Nexvs. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL GLEANINGS PROM ALL QUARTERS 



OF THE GLOBE. 



PROF. A. J. SNYDER expects to pass the Summer in Colorado collecting. 



MR. LANCASTER THOMAS will go to Cranberry, N. C., and keep his 

 eyes open for species new to the locality. 



DR. A. FENVES, of Pasadena, California, will start on a collecting trip 

 to the Atlantic coast on the first of June and will return to Pasadena in 

 October. 



NOTES ON A FEW NORTH AMERICAN SPECIES LISTED AS NOCTUID^;. - 

 In two letters, dated respectively, August 12, 1899, and April 7, 1900, 

 Sir George F. Hampson sends the following notes on some species 

 which stand in our present lists as Noctuidae. 



He.veris Enhydris Gro\.e=Ottolengttia reticulata Beutenm., belongs 

 to the Thyrididae. 



Gyros Muirii, H. Edw., which I see you include in the Noctuidae is 

 (teste specimens in Grote collection which agree with description) a 

 Pyra\Q=Monocona rubralis Warr. ; v. my revision of Pyraustinae in Proc. 

 Zool. Soc., 1899, p. 232. 



Lepidomys Irrenosa Guen., Noct. ii, p. 201 (1852) ; Smith, Cat. Noct., 

 p. 315, is a Pyrale of the subfamily Chrysauginae and is the male of 

 Chalinitis olealis Rag., Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., 1890, p. 529 ; Hmpsn., 

 Proc. Zool. Soc., 1897, p. 684. 



The forewing of the male has no costal tympanic vesicle as in the 

 other species of the genus, but has an antemedial tuft of scales on 

 median nervure, with a smaller tuft below it in the submedian fold. 

 It differs from the female described by Ragonot in the forewing having 

 the portions of the ante and postmedian lines, which are bent inwards to 

 the costa, white ; the outer part of the tuft of scales on median nervure 

 and the tuft in submedian fold white. 



Type New York in Mus. Brit. 



Pseudcraspedia melanosticta Hmpsn., Trans. Ent. Soc., 1898, p. 256, 

 pi. xvii, f. 6, from St. Vmc&n\.=Acidalia basipunctaria Wlk., from 

 Florida, is a Noctuid. 



It is a matter for congratulation that the British Museum material is 

 undergoing critical study by so competent a worker as Sir George F. 

 Hampson and we may now hope to eliminate the few remaining doubtful 

 names that remain in our lists. J. B. SMITH. 



Stenomimits Pa//iihts BOH. On a flat-topped hill overlooking the 

 beautiful Miami Valley in aill view of the Little Miami River, winding its 

 serpentine course through fertile bottom lands, is situated one of the 

 prehistoric burial places from which so many relics of a vanished race 

 have been exhumed. On 'this spot nature has lavished her choicest 

 treasures. Hugh o;ik and oilier trees, with a rank growth c>f smaller 



