84 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Feb., 'lO 



Notes and News. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL GLEANINGS FROM ALL QUARTERS 

 OF THE GLOBE. 



ONCE MORE CULEX PERTURBANS. Concerning the suggestion made by 

 Dr. Dyar in the January number of the NEWS, that I had failed to credit 

 Mr. J. Turner Brakeley with observations made on this insect, let me 

 refer to my report to the New Jersey Experiment Station for 1907, pp. 

 546-553, and for 1908, pp. 410-415, where full abstracts of Mr. Brakeley's 

 notes are given. It is no habit of mine to steal the work of others. 



A quotation or two from a letter received from Dr. Stowell, under 

 date of October igth, may be informing: "When the Laboratory report 

 is finally published you will see that in my mind and also the opinions 

 of my Laboratory Committee, the help we got in the discovery of the 

 breeding place of perturbans came from Dr. John B. Smith, when his 

 trained eye selected the most typical pond in Dublin, in which to seek 

 for perturbans eggs.".***** 



"As to the article ; Dr. Dyar sent me the printer's proof all marked 

 as if it had been already set in type. I wrote him objecting to the omis- 

 sion of mention of the part that you and Mr. Grossbeck had taken in 

 the discovery of the perturbans here. If there is a footnote to the article 

 I do not know of it and I did not authorize it, whatever it states." 



"I begged you to come to help us because I felt that our problem was 

 so complicated that only the eye of special experience would be able to 

 solve it." 



And the fact remains that after two seasons of work Dr. Dyar "dis- 

 covered" a breeding place of perturbans the day after I had pointed it 

 out and told how to look for the insects. 



January 10, 1910. JOHN B. SMITH. 



I BEG to advise that, after January 31, 1910, my address will be Col- 

 lege Station, Texas, U. S. A., instead of Baton Rouge, Louisiana. 



WILMON NEWELL. 



RARE BUTTERFLIES IN MAINE. If Mr. George R. Minot, who con- 

 tributed some notes on the above subject to the December NEWS will 

 refer to Dr. C. H. Fernald's "Butterflies of Maine," published in 1884, 

 he will see that Junonia coenia and Euptoieta claudia are both included 

 in it, the latter on my authority, I having taken it near Portland in 

 that State in August, 1882. I also took a specimen of the former in the 

 same place in August, 1876, it being included under the name lavinia, 

 as used by Harris, in my "List of Diurnal Lepidoptera taken in the 

 vicinity of Portland, Maine," in Can. Ent. XII, 7. 



August is rather late to look for Limenitis arthemis, it should be 

 sought for early in July. HENRY H. LYMAN, Montreal. 



