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times when hunting in N. Carolina. Mr. H. Garman, from Champaign, 

 Illinois, informed me that he collected three females in the house of the 

 John Hopkins Marine Laboratory, at Beaufort, N. Carolina, inside near 

 the window. Newbern is only a few miles distant from Beaufort. Among 

 my papers I found a description of a female from Columbia, from the 

 collection of Mr. H. de Saussure, in Geneva, Switzerland. This species 

 is quoted without description in my list of South American Neuroptera, 

 p. 324, as Acanthochisis striata Hag. The description was made more 

 than thirty-five years ago, when I had never seen the North American 

 species. Now in studying A. americana., I was astonished to find that 

 the description of A. striata agrees so well that there cannot be any 

 doubt of the identity of the two species. Indeed the description printed 

 above is my old one of A. striata, to which I was not able to make addi- 

 tions or corrections after the new material. The specimen was returned 

 at the time to Mr. de Saussure, and will be in his own collection or in 

 Geneva Museum. 



The figure of the male by Drury is similar to the female, and is indeed 

 well made. The venation is accurate, and gives also an indication of the 

 gradate series on the tip. The costal space shows a double series of cells 

 to the base, probably an error, as in the specimens seen by me at least 

 the basal third has only one series. The basal knob on the hind margin 

 of the hind wing is wanting in the figure. The anal appendages a little 

 longer than 3 m.m., are slightly bent. The dimensions of the figure are 

 like those of the female; the length of body greater, nearly 60 m.m. The 

 description agrees except that the thorax is said to be yellow, though the 

 figure gives it gray. 



(To be Continued.) 



A PRACTICAL NOTE ON COLLECTING INSECTS. 



BY PROF. E. W. CLAYPOLE, AKRON, OHIO. 



In reference to two notes on collecting in the June number of your 

 Entomologist, will you allow me to make a few remarks? Entomology 

 is with me a secondary subject, my time being for the most part occupied 

 with another science. Perhaps this has led me to devise means for 

 economizing time and labor more than I should otherwise have done ; 



