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THE REV. G. H. Raynor, M. A. in the Entomologists Record and Jour- 

 nal of Variation, Volume xxi, p. 4, 1909, gives the descriptions of twenty- 

 one varieties of the butterfly Aglais urticae, and then in addition de- 

 scribes and gives names to thirty more. Of the twenty-one previously 

 known he reduces one to the synonymy, so that we now have fifty 

 named varieties of this single species of butterfly. Mr. Raynor seems 

 to be a specialist on this one species. If he turns his attention to the 

 other butterflies and moths he will put to shame even the editor of 

 the Record as a name mill. 



JUNONIA COENIA HUBN. IN MAINE. In Ent. News, xix, p. 386, Mr. 

 Wood records the occurrence of this species at York, Me. I would say 

 that during the past eight or nine years I have found stray specimens 

 every season at Fortune's Rocks, near Biddeford Pool, a few miles 

 further north than York. In 1908 I saw only two specimens a slightly 

 broken one on July 30th and a perfect one August 2nd, both of which 

 were captured. Mr. Lyman has taken the species at Portland some 

 years ago. 



At Fortune's Rocks I also took last July two specimens of Eurcma 

 cutcrpe, Men. (lisa, Bd.), the first time I have observed it there. A 

 number of other specimens of it were seen early in the month before my 

 arrival. ALBERT F. WINN, Westmount, Que. 



NOTES ON NEW JERSEY ORTHOPTERA. In the Journal of the N. Y. 

 Entomological Society for December, 1908, an Orchelimum collected at 

 Tuckerton, N. J., and on Staten Island, N. Y., was described under the 

 name of O. crusculum. Mr. Rehn has lately compared some of the 

 Tuckerton specimens with the Orchelimum fidicinium from Florida, 

 described by himself and Mr. Hebard in 1907, and finds them to be the 

 same, the characters mentioned for crusculum, such as femoral spines, 

 differences in color, etc., not being considered of specific rank. 



Another insect recently found by me in New Jersey is the cricket 

 Miogryllus saussurci, which occurs in the South, and has also been 

 found in Southern Indiana by Mr. Blatchley. At Lakehurst, N. J., it is 

 found under dead leaves and other objects lying on the ground. My 

 attention was first called to the insect by hearing the males stridulating 

 at night. Their song is a slow zee, repeated at intervals of several sec- 

 onds. Later the females were also found. At Lakehurst and on 

 Staten Island, where I have also collected, several individuals were 

 taken on sandy ground, it reaches maturity in June. 



Individuals of this species of cricket differ markedly in the de- 

 velopement of the hearing organ on the inner side of the fore tibiae. In 

 two of the examples collected this organ is totally absent, in four it is 

 slightly developed, and in one it is slightly developed on the inner sur- 

 face of the right tibia, but absent on the same surface of the left leg. 



The finding of these insects is only another proof of what is fast 

 becoming an entomological axiom, namely, any species to be found in 

 the eastern United States is likely to inhabit New Jersey. WM. T. 

 DAVIS. 



