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always be given to the one fron; whom knowledge is obtained, but one 

 can hardly think tlie new State Entomologists have no right for example 

 to recommend the use of Paris Green for destroying the Potato Beetle, 

 because another discovered that it would easily and cheaply accomplish 

 that end, and this knowledge is therefore not the result of their original 

 research. 



Our understanding is that under the Hatch Bill Entomologists are 

 to difiuse knowledge among the people — how to arrest and prevent insect 

 ravages; and in connection with this verify experiments, and make ori- 

 ginal r.^searches, that if possible the old may be bettered, and new 

 methods cjf protection discovered. . 



Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, D. C , \\A. 1, 

 No. 2. 



^\'e have received a copy of the above and are free to give it un- 

 stinted praise. It is a report of the minutes of the meetings of the Wash- 

 ington Society, but in this case the report is of very great value. In con- 

 nection with the Department of Agriculture and the National Museum, 

 a large number of excellent specialists, some of them among the best, 

 have been brought together. They all have scientific ability, are all 

 trained observers, and the reports of the meetings are a history in part of 

 their investigations and opinions. By necessity the information is of very 

 great value and every student will read these Proceedings with delight and 

 profit. G. D. H. 



A New Species of Hyparpax. 

 By Ed. L. Gr.aef. 



Hyparpax aurostriata, n. sp. 



.Sliape and size of //. aurora. Abb. & Sm. Anteriors. thorax and abdomen dirty 

 white yellow spiinkled uniformly with pink. Tiie transverse anterior line runs 

 parallel to outer mars^m to the middle of the wing, thence bifid, the inner one run- 

 ning to anterior margin forming almost a right angle, the anterior curving sharply 

 toward the apex. Secondaries dull yellow white ; traces of the pink scales especially 

 along the outer margin. Beneath, all the wings same color as secondaries with scales 

 of pink densest at the margins and toward the apex. 



This species I have often found in collections labeled //. aurora and 

 by many collectors supposed to be that species or a variety of it. I have 

 received more than a dozen specimens from Texas and they are all of 

 this form and constant. H. aurora is a totally different species. Abbot 

 and Smith's figure agrees perfectly with the form found in the Atlantic 

 States. In H. aurora tlie primaries are pale yellow, basal patch, cosla and 

 exterior margin bright pink. 



From II (^(^ and 2 9 9- Texas. 



