Vol. XXli] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 8l 



Wilmington male may belong to some species described from 

 the female only. This is a difficult matter to decide in the 

 absence of actual specimens of those species. I am, therefore, 

 not able to say more than that your male does not agree with 

 the descriptions or specimens of any male Gomphoides. * * 



"In any event, your Wilmington specimen is the most 

 northern record for this genus known to me, and therefore 

 a very interesting capture." 



It is to be hoped that entomologists visiting the Wilming- 

 ton region, and particularly the neighborhood of Greenfield 

 Pond, will keep a sharp lookout for species of Gomphoides 

 and related genera, as it is quite possible that the individual 

 taken by me had been bred in the vicinity, and was not an 

 accidental migrant from the West Indies.* 



THE Department of Zoology and Entomology of the Ohio State 

 University has recently received as a donation a fine collection of 

 Lepidoptera from Mrs. Catherine Tallant, of Richmond, Indiana. The 

 collection was made by Mr. W. M. Tallant during a series of years 

 in the nineties and up to about 190.=;. It contains mainly species occur- 

 ring in central Ohio, especially at Columbus, but has also a number of 

 species from different parts of the United States and also some fine 

 examples of species occurring in South America, Japan, China, India, 

 Ceylon and Africa. The collection contains about 10,000 specimens in 

 most excellent condition, very beautifully mounted, and many of the 

 species contain very full series, showing variations, etc., which will 

 make them of special value for scientific study. They are, for the most 

 part, carefully identified, well preserved and will be kept under the 

 name of the "Tallant Collection" in good cases and cabinets. Taken 

 with the other collections in Lepidoptera, the collection of Odonata left 

 by Professor Kellicott, and those in various groups which have been 

 accumulated by the efforts of the members of the Department, the 

 university is now provided with an excellent collection of insects in- 

 cluding representatives in all the different orders. The total number 

 of specimens probably approaches close to 100,000. H. O. 



*[ According to Mr. Muttkowski's new catalogue of the Odonata of 

 North America (Bulletin of the Public Museum of the City of Mil- 

 waukee, Vol. i, art.i) the name Gomphoides Selys must be transferred 

 to what de Selys and others have called Progomphits Selys. For the 

 old Gomphoides Mr. Muttkowski proposes Negomphoides. If my 

 view, set forth in the 'Biologia,' that Gomphoides Selys, Cyclophylla 

 Selys, and Aphylla Selys are but one genus be accepted, the name 

 Negomphoides is superfluous as Cyclophylla has priority. P. P. CAL- 

 VERT.] 



