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on purely practical grounds, that tin- worm described and figured by 

 Ward as Gongylonema (?) pulclirmn be referred to as Gongylonema 

 /iniiiinis ^^p. dub., iii order to keep the nomenclature distinct. Health 

 News Issued bv the UNITED STATES Prune HEALTH SERVICE. 



The Mulford Biological Exploration of the Amazon Basin 



EDITOR, ENT. NEWS: This is to inform you of the progre^> of the 

 Mulford Expedition, with which Dr. Mann is connected, and to give 

 you a brief statement of the entomological work so far accomplished 

 as it has been reported to us. 



As you may have noted from the news bulletins which 1 have sent 

 out [see the NEWS for October, page 245], the party left La Paz about 

 July 9th, enroute for the Bopi River. They reached Espia, at which 

 place the La Paz and Meguilla Rivers join to form the Bopi, remain- 

 ing there about three weeks awaiting the arrival of balsas to take them 

 down the river. They left Espia about the 15th of August, arriving 

 at Huachi on the 22nd and proceeding from there down the river to 

 Rurrenabaque. The letters just received were written from Espia 

 just previous to the time they set out for their trip down the river to 

 Rurrenabaque. Dr. Rusby reports that collection of specimens was 

 impossible until after the party left La Pax. From La Paz to Euca- 

 lyptus the journey was made by train and from Eucalyptus to Pongo 

 by automobile. There wen- thus no opportunities for collecting except 

 at the stopping points. 



The work in entomology which Dr. Mann has so far done includes 

 the collection of a number of specimens taken on the Alto Piano at 

 Eucalyptus, also at Pongo, the end of the automobile route. Several 

 days' work netted a good series of several species of ground beetles 

 and a few ants, and other characteristic Andean species. On the way 

 from Pongo to Canamina and Espia a few good things were found 

 along the trail, among them several undoubtedly new species of beetles, 

 one belonging to a family not heretofore recorded from Bolivia. 



Collection at Canamina was fairly profitable, for during two days' 

 collection here many species were taken, the most important being a 

 good series of parasitic wasps. In the vicinity of Espia also Dr. Mann 

 collected an interesting if not a large series of forms. R. H. Urn m 

 SON, Secretary, Philadelphia. 



Gonepteryx clorinde in Nebraska (Lep., Rhop.) 



This is the time of year when 1 begin cutting up. Captured 

 Goncptcryx clorinde Godt. September 20, 1'.'21, at noon, in Omaha, 

 in a neighbor's backxard on /innui. This is a new record for Nebraska, 

 the distribution as previously known beini; Arizona. Texas, Mexico, 

 Central and South America. R. A. LEUSSLER. 



