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perlula Felder (Wien. Ent. Mon., 5, p. 104, n. 80, 1861), which Doll. 

 Ent. News, Vol. 15, p. 350, 1904, reports from Brownsville, Texas. I 

 am totally unacquainted with this, but believe that it is another theona 

 synonym, or that the identification is incorrect, as perlula is not known 

 to occur in the intermediate region between Texas and Venezuela. The 

 Biologica makes no mention of it. Dr. Dyar, Bull. 52, U. S. Nat. Museum, 

 includes theona, and gives it the habitat '* Texas, Colorado," placing y>//z//^ 

 Edwards as a synonym. This is certainly incorrect, as fulvia is a 

 synonym oi alma Strecker. Strecker, Cat., p. 126, 1878, records theona^ 

 No. 231, from S. California, S.-West Texas, Cent. America. Dr. Smith's 

 Catalogue gives ///^^«d! (No. no), and places it between wrightii and 

 ihekla. The synonymy is asfollows : 

 Melitcea theotia Menetries. 

 syn. t/iekla Edwards. 

 bollii Edwards. 

 M. dejinata Aaron belongs in this group, and may be the insect 

 recorded ?cs> pei'hilu. 



The Department of Zoology and Entomology of the Ohio State 

 University has recently received as a donation a fine collection of Lepi- 

 doptera from Mrs. Catharine Tallant, of Richmond, Indiana. The 

 collection was made by Mr. W. N. Tallant during a series of years in the 

 nineties and up to about 1905. It contains mainly species occurring in 

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

 from different parts of the United States, and also some fine samples 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, 

 included in good cases and cabinets, and will be kept under the name of 

 the " Tallant Collection." 



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, 

 including representatives in all the different orders, the total number of 

 specimens probably coming close to 100,000. 



Herbert Osborn, Columbus, O. 



