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the future journal to appeal to all and have mutual support, 

 and this is the reason for thinking- the Entomological Society 

 of America should father the project. As in the past the local 

 societies would have their proceedings and transactions, but 

 the monthly journal should be the official organ of the ento- 

 mologists of America. The opinion expressed is a disinter- 

 ested one, as ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS was never more success- 

 ful than it is to-day, but we consider the problem from the 

 standpoint of the future. 



Notes and. Ne\vs. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL GLEANINGS FROM ALL QUARTERS 

 OF THE GLOBE. 



MR. FRANK M. JONES, of Wilmington, Delaware, has been spending 

 several months in collecting at Biloxi, Mississippi. He is sure to find 

 things of interest and doubtless the NEWS readers will learn of them 

 sooner or later. 



WHILE ACTING as Surgeon of the Revenue Cutter "Bear," cruising in 

 Alaskan waters during the summer of 1909, I collected a series of 

 fleas from ground squirrels (Citellus nebulicola) , which are identical 

 with the Ceratophyllits idahoensis described by Baker from the Sper- 

 mophilus columbianus at Moscow, Idaho. The Alaskan specimens were 

 taken in June, 1909, on Nagai Island. CARROLL Fox, P. A. Surgeon, 

 P. H. & M. H. S. 



IN MY UST of the Lepidoptera of the Mt. Shasta Region. (ENT. 

 NEWS, pp. 62-75, Feb., '09). No. 31 of the Papilonoidea should be 

 Thecla spinetorwn Bdv. and not Thecla in-album Bdv. Lee. The note 

 following concerning Boisduval should therefore be omitted. 



Melicleptria fiinbria described by me in ENT. NEWS, pp. 237-8, Sept., 

 '05 is a synonym of Mclanoporphyria prorupta, Grt. 



Anthocharis lanceolata Bdv. Of several pupae of this insect obtained 

 by me in Shasta County, Cal., during the summer of 1907, two produc- 

 ed imagines in May and June of 1908; another emerged in 1909, and 

 the last pupa developed to such a degree in March, 1910, that the full 

 colors of the wings of the enclosed insect could be seen, and the butter- 

 fly would doubtless have emerged, had there been sufficient moisture 

 during the period of critical development when it was packed away in 

 a trunk. It is easy to see from this instance how some insects can and 

 do hold over in the pupae stage, in especially dry seasons. FRANCIS X. 

 WILLIAMS. 



