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The two specimens may be separated at a glance b}^ general 

 coloration ; infumata approaches a black, while americana is 

 reddish. Neither of these colors exactly fits the case, but the 

 latter species is much lighter than the former. 



S. americana has femora red. head with red streaks and spots 

 surrounded by black and about seven veins crossing from costa to 

 subcosta before the latter unites with the radius. 



S. infumata has head and femora black, and about eleven veins 

 crossing from costa to subcosta before the union of the latter with 

 the radius, and the antennae are slenderer and shorter than in the 

 above species. 



The two are about the same size, although from the material I 

 have before me, americana averages slightly larger. 



BiTTACUS occiDENTis Walker. In my paper on ' ' Panorpidse, ' ' 

 in Bull. Sci. Lab., Den. Univ., 11: 141, I mentioned three instances 

 where this species had been taken at light in the evening. Two 

 more have since come to my notice and the specimens are 

 before me. 



Miss Braun, of Cincinnati, took several specimens August 23, 

 1900, in a shady dooryard in a residence portion of the city. 

 These specimens are supposed to have been attracted to the 

 vicinity iDy the street light. J. C. Hambleton, of Columbus, took 

 the species at light at West Jefferson, Ohio, in August. 



It may be mentioned that these are the first records of the 

 taking of this species in Ohio. 



DONATIONS TO OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY. 



The Botanical department received a fine lot of Fayette county 

 plants for the Ohio Herbarium from E. D. Coberly and J. Paul 

 Tong, but these have not heretofore been acknowledged. 



Mr. Otto Hacker's large and splendid contribution was par- 

 tially recorded in the last number of the Ohio Naturalist. 



Mr. Earl Hyde, of Tancaster, has our thanks for fifty-six 

 Fairfield County plants. 



Mr. S. E. Horlacher, of Dayton, has just contributed twenty 

 Montgomery County plants to the State Herbarium. The excel- 

 lency of the specimens calls for special mention, and they are 

 fully appreciated. 



Dr. E. M. Norman has sent twenty- one specimens of sperma- 

 tophytes collected by him in Champaign County, for which we 

 return thanks. 



Miss Ruth E. Brockett, Rio Grande, has added to her former 

 valuable donations five herbarium specimens, among which 

 Gerardia paupercula (Gr. ) Britt. is especially interesting as 

 southwardly extending the reported range of this species. 



