224 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [November, 



Notes and. Newrs. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL GLEANINGS FROM ALL QUARTERS 



OF THE GLOBE. 



Chrysophanus snou'ii Edvv. I have found the larvae of this species in 

 Colorado feeding on mountain sorrel, Oxyria digyna. They are velvet}' 

 green with reddish dorsal line. The chrysalis stage lasts from eight to 

 ten days. DAVID BRUCE. 



DESCRIPTION OF AN ABERRATION OF CHRYSOPHANUS AMERICANA. 

 A specimen taken on June 8, 1897, by Master G. W. Walker at Jamaica, 

 Long Island, N. Y., showed the following peculiarities: Fore wings, upper 

 side a bright golden-orange; costal and outer margins a pale lemon color, 

 the eight usually black spots brown, and not very large or perceptible. 

 Hind wings a very pale lemon, except near exterior margin, where there 

 is a bright orange band, very much the same as the fore wings; the blue 

 spots usually found on the Spring form are entirely absent ; the inner 

 margin, near the body, is slightly darker; antennae, club brown, stem 

 white with very pale yellow bands; palpi white, collar light gray, thorax 

 and abdomen light brown. Under side: fore wings same color as the 

 upper side; spots light brown and very small; hind wings creamy white, 

 with a few faint brown spots and an irregular orange-red streak near the 

 outer margin. Body and legs a very light ash color. This insect was 

 taken by a boy eleven years of age, and, considering the circumstance, 

 is in very fair condition. J. V. D. WALKER. 



THE ENTOMOLOGICAL COLLECTIONS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD. 



-The recently issued ' Ninth Annual Report of the Delegates of the 



University Museum (for 1896),' contains many items of interest from which 



we reprint some as a supplement to the account given in the NEWS for 



March, 1896, page 66. 



"The whole collection of British Aculeate Hymenoptera has been re- 

 vised by Mr. Edward Saunders; a part of the collection of Phytophaga 

 (Coleoptera) by Mr. M. Jacoby; the Membracidae and Cicadae by Canon 



Fowler, assisted by Mr. W. F. Kirby A very valuable collection 



of Rhopalocera (butterflies), chiefly from Central and South America, 

 but also including a large number from other parts of the world, was 

 presented by F. DuCane Gcdman, Esq., F. R. S., and Osbert Salvin, 

 Esq., F. R. S. . . . The specimens in this collection are of especial 

 value because of the excellent geographical data which accompany them. 

 Although specimens from all countries are included, the collection is es- 

 pecially rich in species from Central America, a district of peculiar in- 

 terest, hitherto but poorly represented in the Hope Collection. Many 

 specimens of historic interest are also present the captures of H. W. 

 Bates in Brazil, of T. Belt, in Nicaragua, and of A. R. Wallace in the 

 Malay Archipelago. The majority of the more recently captured speci- 

 mens were taken by the greatest living collectors such as G. C. Cham- 



