142 Journal New York Entomological Society. [^'°1- -^^av, 



characters bear this out, and I suppose " Heliodinidee " on page 49 

 will change to HeHozelidse. 



In the Pieridre (at least in Pieris rapcc, brassiccv, and daplidicc) 

 certain of the most conspicuous setae are undoubtedly the three upper 

 primaries, as I have proved by breeding the first stages.^ The crowd 

 of secondary setae which confuse the picture in the full-grown larva 

 are much fewer in the second stage, appearing gradually stage by 

 stage, and the history of setae i, ii and iii is continuous; as to iv and 

 V I feel much less certain, but suspect they are the two largest in the 

 subventral region, as they have the same relative position, essentially, 

 in stage one. When so traced the primaries of Pieris rapcc may be 

 recognized by their light color, and i and ii by their glandular char- 

 acter. 



Dr. Fracker's paper has a bibliography citing most of the articles 

 mentioned above. The typical arrangement of muscles and skin- 

 folds is given in Ann. Ent. Soc. Am., VII, 109, 1914. 



NOTES ON ALLECULID^ (COLEOPTERA). 



By Charles W. Leng, 

 West New Brighton, N. Y. 



The name of this family was changed by Dr. G. Seidlitz in 

 Erichson's Insekten Deutschlands because the former name was de- 

 rived from Cistela, which was originally used by Geoffroy for an 

 insect of a different family. Following Seidlitz the family Cistelidae 

 of our Check List becomes the family Alleculidae of Junk's Catalogus 

 Coleopterorum, constituting part 3, by F. Borchmann. 



It is to be regretted that some errors may be detected in this 

 author's work. Mycetochara horni Dury, Journ. Cin. Soc. Nat. Hist., 

 XX, 1902, is omitted, Tcdinus angustns Casey is cited as angustatus, 

 Prostcnus calif ornicus Horn is cited as from California notwith- 

 standing the remarks of Champion, Casey and Fall, which make it 

 plain that its occurrence in California must have been accidental 

 and its real home is Central America. The treatment of the genus 

 1 Psyche, 1909, 69. 



