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THE ENTOMOLOGIST S KECORD. 



hyaline. The costa hyaline for two-thirds the length of cell, narrowly black thence 

 to apex. Diseoidal spot black, outer marginal band black, broader then costal 

 band. Inner margin very narrowly black. Hindwing bluish hyaline with the 

 apex broadly black, tapering rapidly and finishing at vein 2. Inner margin narrowly 

 black. Exp., 34mra. 



Habitat. — Trinidad. St. Augustin, Nov. 13, 1913 (J. L. Guppy). 



Close to 1\ esiiieralda, Wlk., but without metallic abdominal spots, 

 and smaller. 



(MOLEOPTERA. 



On April 2nd, 1913, my brother caught a specimen of hchnodea 

 sam/iiinicollis, and a few days later I caught another in the same 

 situation, namely, a hollow in an old elm in our garden. We also 

 found remains of a third and some Elaterid larvte, but these may have 

 been of some other species, since there were many elytra of other species 

 found in the hole, together with owls' pellets. We looked again this 

 year, but found nothing but a larva, which may or may not have been 

 Ischnodes. — J. Bateson, The Manor House, Merton. 



®URRENT NOTES AND SHORT NOTICES. 



Mr. T. Bainbridge Fletcher has been appointed Imperial Ento- 

 mologist at the Agricultural Research Institute at Pusa. — M.B. 



Andre Petrovich Senienoff-Tian-Shansky, Hon. F.E.S., has been 

 elected President of the Russian Entomological Society, in succession 

 to his lamented father, whose obituary appears on page 127. — M.B. 



In the Fhit. Month. Ma(/. for March, Mr. G. C. Champion has 

 commenced an account of an excursion to southern Tunisia, with notes 

 on the Coleoptera, etc. As the Rev. F. D. Morice was also a member 

 of the party, no doubt we shall have an account of the Hymenoptera 

 of the districts visited. The outlying portions of the Palaearctic area 

 are gradually being explored biologically by our foremost enthusiasts 

 in Entomology. In this connection we understand that Messrs. W. G. 

 Sheldon and A. H. Jones have gone on a long tour to the seldom 

 visited districts of southern Russia. 



In the PJnt. Neivs for March is an article on North American Tinea, 

 with descriptions of several new species, including an Ari/yrestJiia, by 

 Annette F. Braun. Many naturalisations take place in the western 

 continent, and, we presume, " imagoes " is one of them. 



In the same periodical a somewhat " tall " story is reproduced. 

 It is stated in the New York Zoological Society's Bulletin that a 

 great many mound-building ants have established colonies near the 

 end of the shooting range at Lawton, Okla., and that the ants had 

 collected the stray shot with the tiny particles of granite to build their 

 mounds. More than 50 pounds of shot have been taken from the 

 mounds investigated. 



Mr. A. A. Girault sends a communication to the Knt. Xeivs as to 

 the use of Naphthaline as an insecticide. In a powdered state he 

 applied it to both a kitten and an older cat which were badly infested 

 with fleas, and successfully expelled the vermin. The treatment, however, 

 slightly affected the cats, making them refuse their food for a day or 

 two and be somewhat inactive. The powder was rubbed into the fur 



