— 103— 



Elytra colored as in corallinus with a very narrow basal black band; surface 

 coarsely punctured at base, more finely and closely toward apex; apices sep- 

 arately rounded, the sutural angle distinct but not prolonged .... jocosus. 

 O. marginatus Lee. Proc. Ac. Phil. 1S62, p. 42. Length .86-.Q5 in. =22-24 

 mm. Hab. Lower Cal. 



O. cruentus Lee. 1. c. . 75— .85 in. =19-21 mm. Hab. Lower Cal. 

 O. corallinus Lee. 1. c. .70-. 80 in. =18-20 mm. Wyom., Utah and N. Mex. 

 O. jocosus Horn Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. XII, 1885, p. 175. Length .48-. 60 in. 

 =12-15111111. Hal). Cot. and Arizona. 



(To be continued.) 



Notes and News. 



In the "Entomologisk Tidskrift" of Stockholm Vol. 6, 1885 i s a iven a 

 Cata'ogueofthe Macroleipdoptera of Norway, Sweden, and Finland. This 

 is of interest to American Lepidopterists for three reasons; 1st the fauna 

 of Arctic Europe is very much the same as that of Arctic America; 2nd 

 the author after an examination of the types of Thunberg, De Geer and 

 others, replaces nearly 30 names given in Staudinger's Catalogue, by 

 more ancient names principally given by Thunberg, De Geer and Goze 

 and 3rd, a number of new varieties are named, which may be found in 

 our own Arctic fauna. We notice as well the statement that our Chryso- 

 phanus Phhas var. americana has been taken bv a Swedish collector. 



Geo. D. Hulst. 



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A copy of the Davenport Sunday Democrat (June 27) contains a 

 record of .the transfer of the Entomological collection of the late T. 

 Duncan Putnam to the Davenport Academy of Sciences. We are pleased 

 to note the liberal spirit of the relatives who preserved the scientific work 

 of Mr. Putnam by placing his collection where it would be cared for and 

 would instruct and perhaps lead others to follow in his foot-steps. It is 

 too often that a collection accumulated by years of hard labor is allowed 

 to go to ruin by the relatives of the deceased or sold in sections after bein»- 

 robbed of its treasures by some enterprising collector who o- e ts a chance 

 t" a get pick at it lor a small sum. 



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 Having in preparation a series of synoptic tables of Aphodius with 

 such emendatory notes as are required on my previous work, I will glad- 

 ly return the names of any duplicate sets which may be sent to me. 



Geo. H. Horn, M. D, 



874 X. 4th St. Philadelphia. 



