l8o ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [April, 'll 



VOLUME 22 of the Journal of Morphology (Wistar Institute of 

 Anatomy and Biology, Philadelphia), originally intended as a testi- 

 monial by former students and colleagues to the founder of the 

 Journal, Professor Charles Otis Whitman, will, in consequence of his 

 untimely death, become a Memorial Volume to him. The following 

 entomological papers are announced as to be among its contents : 

 Moenkhaus, W. J. The influence of inbreeding and selection on the 

 fertility and sex ratio in Drosophila. Montgomery, T. H. The 

 spermatogenesis of the Hemipteron Euscliistus. Morgan, T. H. Fur- 

 ther studies of ovogenesis and spermatogenesis in Phylloxerans and 

 Aphids. Wheeler, W. M. The ant colony as an organism. Wilson, 

 E. B. A review of the chromosomes of Nezara with some more 

 general considerations. 



PROFESSOR J. M. ALDRICH, Moscow, Idaho, has received a grant from 

 the Elizabeth Thompson Fund "to investigate the fauna of the waters 

 and shores of western salt and alkaline lakes," and will spend a por- 

 tion of next summer in a field trip, commencing his studies at Great 

 Salt Lake and extending them westward at least as far as Mono Lake, 

 Cal. The investigation will include all orders of insects as far as they 

 exhibit adaptation to a salt or alkaline environment ; the problems of 

 greatest interest, perhaps, are those pertaining to several partially-known 

 species of Ephydra, the larvae of which breed in salt and alkaline lakes. 

 Professor Aldrich plans to visit all the lakes from which material of 

 this kind has been reported, four or five in number, and any other lakes 

 of like character along his route. He will be glad to receive sug- 

 gestions from any entomologists who have made observations on the 

 subject in view, or who may wish to have attention given to any col- 

 lateral entomological problem in the interesting field to be visited. 



CATOCALA BEUTENMULLERI AND C. WERNERI. At the meeting of the 

 Newark Entomological Society of Oct. Qth, 1910, as recorded in the 

 Ent. News, March, 1911, p. 140, Mr. Beutenmuller is credited with the 

 statement that Catocala beutenmiilleri B. & McD. is the male of C. 

 zvarneri Poling. I presume the species Mr. Beutenmuller had in mind 

 was C. werneri Bied. (Ent. News XX, 76, '09). At the time of de- 

 scription both $ and 9 of C. beutenmiilleri were before the writer and 

 also the unique type of C. werneri, which is contained in Coll. Barnes. 

 While both belong to the veriUiana group, the two species are totally 

 unlike in the appearance of the primaries; C. werneri is largely suffus- 

 ed with dark brown blotches, whereas C. beutenmulleri in both sexes is 

 a clear bluish gray, without traces of brown patches. Their distinctness 

 is without question. J. McDuNNOUGH, Decatur, Illinois. 



