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Notes and. News. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL GLEANINGS FROM ALL QUARTERS 

 OF THE GLOBE. 



FEMALE OF AESHNASOMA RIVERTONENSIS Johnson. Like the male 

 with these exceptions : Form slightly more robust. Wings a little 

 wider and 22 mm. long. Legs. Front and middle pairs vary as fol- 

 lows : femur 13 to 16 mm.; tibiae 13 to 15 mm.; metatarsus 19 to 22 

 mm. Hind pair : femur 18 mm. ; tibiae 20 mm. ; metatarsus 28 mm. 

 One specimen taken at Riverton, N. J., VII, 12.08 by C. T. Greene and 

 in his collection. 



For description of male see Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., Vol. 34, 

 No. 5 pp. 115 and 116. CHAS. T. GREENE. 



DR. HENRY SKINNER, PROF. HERBERT OSBORN AND DR. W. J. HOLLAND, 

 have been appointed delegates to the First International Entomological 

 Congress and the Eighth International Zoological Congress, as repre- 

 sentatives of the Entomological Society of America. The Entomological 

 Congress meets in Brussels, Belgium, from the first to the sixth of 

 August, and the Zoological Congress, in Gratz, Austria, from August 

 fifteenth to the twentieth. Dr. Skinner has also been delegated to rep- 

 resent the Academy of Natural Sciences, of Philadelphia, and the 

 American Entomological Society, at the Entomological Congress. 



FURTHER NOTE ON LARVA OF EUMAEAS ATALA.* At the time of writ- 

 ing description of larva of Eumaeas atala, I had an opportunity to 

 indentify the food plant. Subsequently in April, I re-visited Miami, 

 Fla., and learned more of it. The plant upon which these handsome 

 larvae swarm is known to the natives as "Compte," and the butterfly 

 is known as the "Compte-fly". I was gravely informed that these 

 "worms" made the butterfly, but nobody could account for the presence 

 of the worm. This "Compte" is a variety of Cassava or arrow-root, and 

 its botanical name may be found somewhere in the following list of 

 synonyms: Janiyha manihot, Manihot utilissima, Jatropha manihol, 

 Manihot aipi, Manihot loeflingi, Manihot palmata. It is exceedingly 

 common on the high ground about Miami and southward, and some 

 effort has been made to employ it commercially in the manufacture of 

 cassava or tapioca starch. J. L. HEALY. 



*See Scudder; Mem. Boston Soc., N. H., 2, 413, 1875. Schwarz, 

 Insect Life, i, 37, 1888. 



