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Notes and Ne\vs. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL GLEANINGS FROM ALL QUARTERS 

 OF THE GLOBE 



An Additional Distributional Record for Rhacognathus americanus 



Stal. (Hemip.-Heterop.) 



Concerning the then known distribution of this rather uncommon 

 pentatomid, Uhler remarked (Bull. U. S. Geol. Surv. Terr., II, No. 5, 

 1876, 282) : "Inhabits Illinois, Nebraska and Canada." The species 

 was described four years previously by Stal whose type came from 

 Illinois. Since that time a record for Ohio has been published. Van 

 Duzee (Trans. Am. Ent. Soc., XXX, 1904, 68) mentions a specimen 

 in his collection that was taken at Winnipeg, Manitoba. Hart (Nat. 

 Hist. Surv. Illinois, XIII, 1919, 202) mentions five examples secured 

 in northern Illinois. To the best of my knowledge these constitute the 

 only available definite records for the species and I take pleasure in 

 adding another to the list. 



On August 17, 1911, I collected a male on one of the grassy hills 

 in the vicinity of Fergus Falls, Minnesota. This specimen is almost 

 entirely black ; the only distinct light markings occur on the tibiae, 

 sternal plates, anterior median longitudinal line of the pronotum and 

 on the connexivum, where the marks are of a reddish tinge. The 

 rugae between the black punctures are but very faintly yellowish. 

 Length of this specimen which is now in my collection, 10.00 mm. 



DAYTON STONF.R. University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa. 



Further Notes on "A Rare Pamphlet" (Hym., Lep., Neur.) 



In ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS, xxxi, p. 176, June, 1920, Mr. Nathan Banks 

 calls attention to a long-forgotten paper by Dr. A. S. Packard. This 

 paper was to have appeared in volume two of the Transactions of the 

 Chicago Academy in 1870, and was supposed to have been destroyed 

 with the rest of the publication in the great fire until the copy at 

 Cambridge was discovered. The fact that two species of moths were 

 described therein as new, among numerous other insects, aroused our 

 interest in the question raised by Mr. Banks as to its possibly valid 

 publication, and it was with some relief that we read a note by Mr. 

 Grote which accidentally came to our notice a short time later. This 

 note was published in the Canadian Entomologist, xxiv, pp. 182-3, 1892, 

 under the heading "Gastroparha alucensis." The specific name is ap- 

 parently a typographical error for alascensis. At the beginning of this 

 brief paper appears the following statement: "With regard to the 

 omission of this species from 'Mr. Grote's lists,' I would state that I 

 was informed that the entire edition of the Chicago Academy Trans- 

 actions, in which the description appeared, was destroyed in the Great 

 Fire, and that Dr. Packard in consequence regarded his paper as 

 unpublished." This is, of course, not conclusive evidence, but it is so 



