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Notes and News. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL GLEANINGS FROM ALL QUARTERS 

 OF THE GLOBE. 



CICINDELA UNICOLOR Dej. Mr. Edw. D. Harris writes from Camden, 

 South Carolina, under date of March 19, "I am taking very fine spec- 

 imens of this species here." 



A SPECIAL COMMISSION, to be despatched by the British South Africa 

 Company to investigate sleeping sickness in Rhodesia, will include 

 Mr. O. Silverlock as entomologist. SCIENCE. 



THE article entitled "A Day with Euchloe cethura," published in the 

 NEWS for January, ign, page 11, should be credited to Messrs. Karl 

 R. Coolidge and Victor L. Clemence as joint authors, and not to Mr. 

 Coolidge alone. 



DR. W. J. HOLLAND, director of the Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, 

 author of the Butterfly Book, the Moth Book and numerous other 

 works on Lepidoptera, has received from the Czar of Russia, the insig- 

 nia of a knight of the order of St. Stanislas, second class, in recog- 

 nition of his services to science. 



DOG AND CAT FLEAS NOT IDENTICAL. At the meeting of the Entomo- 

 logical Society of London, on Nov. 16, 1910, the Hon. N. C. Rothschild 

 exhibited examples of two species of fleas, Ctenocephalus canis (dog 

 flea) and C. felis (cat flea), and stated that, although still frequently 

 considered to be identical, they were really quite distinct species. Under 

 the microscope it was seen that whereas the head of the dog flea was 

 rounded, that of the cat flea was long and flat. The two had been 

 united by Dr. Taschenberg under the name of serraticeps, a name which 

 most certainly could not be retained. 



TIMETES. Since the publication of the note on Timetes peleus, on 

 page in, of the NEWS for March, 1911, I have received additional 

 information from Mrs. Annie Trumbull Slosson and Mr. Philip Lau- 

 rent. Mrs. Slosson writes as follows : "Your note on Timetes inter 

 ests me. I have recognized but one species in Florida and that you 

 identified for me as eleucha years ago. I am sending you three spec- 

 imens. Their habit of flight is so peculiar that they are difficult to 

 capture. They fly very high in the tops of the highest trees, rarely 

 coming lower and their thin, delicate, fragile tails break so easily that 

 it is hard to secure perfect specimens." 



I was in error in calling the specimen eleucha that Mrs. Slosson sent 

 me from Biscayne Bay, Florida. Mr. Laurent says he found the spec- 

 ies very common south of Miami, Florida. The specimens he has sent 

 me were taken on various days during the month of March. Mr. Lau- 

 rent says that all he took were more or less damaged. All of these 

 specimens were peleus Sulz. (petreus Cramer). HENRY SKINNER. 



