— 8o— 



ringed with white. Primaries yellow to near outer margin, where it is separated 

 from the white terminal space by a broacl blackish shading which extends inward 

 on the costa. A series of black terminal lunules. 



Expands, i — 1.37 inches = 25 — 35 mm. Hab. Texas. 

 Many specimens from Texas, where it seems to be not uncommon. 

 The species is very distinctly marked and easily recognized by the pure 

 white, spotted primaries and yellow secondaries. It has the wing form of 

 Utctheisa, and the genus may precede it in the lists. Types in my own 

 collection. Others in the National Museum, Coll. Graef, Tepper, Hulst, 

 Bolter, et al. 



Book Notices. 



Synopsis of the Families and Genera of the Hymenoptera of America, 

 North of Mexico, tOL;ethL'r witli a Catalogue ot described species and Bibliograpliy. 

 Compiled by E. T. Cresson. Part I. Families and Genera. Trans. Amer. Enlo. 

 See. Phil. 1887. 



The above work, Part I of which is completed and before us, marks 

 an era in the mapping out of another part of the great field of American 

 Entomology. One by one Specialists are bringing facts, which are chaos 

 to the ignorant, into order, by the ascertaining and publishing of the rela- 

 tions and likenesses which reveal the "'unity in diversity'' of Nature. And 

 of this task, no little portion is set before us in the above work. Mr. 

 Cresson is the more worthy our thanks, as his labors have been in what 

 is one of the most difficult of all suborders. With this work in the pos- 

 session of the student, he can with little difficulty arrange his Hymenoptera 

 in their proper families and genera. We can not too highly recommend 

 its use to those whose taste leads them to collect and to strive after a 

 ?icientific knowledge of the Hymenoptera. Geo. D. Hulst. 



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On the classification of the Pterophondae, by E. Meyrick. Tr. Ent. Soc. 

 London, 1886, p. i — 21. 



Mr. INIeyrick discusses the location of the family and says on this 

 })oint : "My own conclusion is that the group constitutes a family of 

 Pyralidina, of similar value with v\\q Bolydidie. and other allied families, 

 and that it may be placed, together with the Tinesdidce and Oxychirotidcv. 

 as I have elsewhere defined them, next the CrambidcB and Scoparicidce." 

 A synoptic table of the known genera is given, and other new genera and 

 species are described. 



No American forms are treated of, but the paper is nevertheless an 

 interesting and valuable one to the American student of the groups. — J. B. S. 

 ^^^^ • 



Society News. 



Brooklyn Entomological Society, June 7th. Apart from the regular busi- 

 ness, Mr. Wm. Beutenmueller gave an account of a collecting trip in Florida, from 

 which he had just returned. He was located at Kisimmee and Enterprise. Collecting 

 in the pine woods was very unremunerative. The hummocks gave much better re- 

 sults, but it was evident that later in the season there would have been much greater 

 success. Coleoptcra were much more plentiful than Lepidoptcra.— The next regular 

 meeting will be in September, but the Piesident was requested to call a special meet- 

 ing early in July, to arrange, if thought desirable, for the meeting of the A. A. A. S. 



