Stiitumber— October iSS.(.] I\STCHE. i)!) 



ENTOMOLOGICAL ITEMS. the northeast as Cambridge, Mass. On 9 



Dr. I.VMtb Spencer B.mlev. of Albany. Ang. of this year I took a specimen of that 



N. v.. a lepidopterist well known to maiiv "P""''*^ '" Cambridge, and saw another 21 



of our readers, died I lulv 18S3. Dr. BaileV -"^"S- A few days later another was .seen. On 



was born in Albany. N. Y., 25 Feb. 1850. ' "' '"^"S- ^ I'ecei.ved a note from Mr. F. G. San- 



born annoimcing the capture on that day, bv 



The British association for the advance- ;s[,. .^ ,, Xgwton. at Worcester, Mass.', of a 



ment of science met 19 Sept. and days follow- „,„,.„ p crespho»t<;. Another interesting 



ingat Southport. The assembly of German capture which 1 made this year (25 July) in 



naturalists and doctors took place 1S-21 Sept. Cambridge was y„„o„i„ cornia.-G: ' Uim- 



at Freiburg-in-Baden. mock 



Mr. Townend Glover, for a long time Amoxg exchanges lately received for 



entomologist of the United States gover- Psyche special mention ought to be made 



ment. died S September, at Baltimore. Md. „(■ 33 books and pamphlets .sent bv the 



He vyas of English parentage and education, Colonial museum of New Zealand. Among 



butcameto this country when a young man. these is a "Mannal of the New Zealand 



Howard Ayres won the first Walker ™le°Ptera" by Captain Thomas Broun. 



prize for 1SS3, awarded by the Boston society 

 of natural history, by the presentation of a 



containing 744 pages. Professor P'. W. 

 IIuttf>n writes of it. before the publication of 



„„„a.. „., ti,> ja „i »»■/-> </ A Part 1. in which the number of species 



paper on the development ot Occanthii!. and ' 



•t „, :t T- / r\ rn A \\7 n reaches r-;2i. that it is "a most excellent 



its parasite Ideas. One of the second Walker ■' 



prizes was awarded to William Patton for a «'°'"'*' ™"to''"i"g '°=;o '^Pecies. a large part 



paper entitled -Notes on the development of "^ ^'"'=^' ^''"^ described for the first time, and 



phrvgauidae" Mr. Ayres and Mr. Patton ">^' "° country outside Europe and the 



were students of Harvard university and United States has produced sucn a catalogue." 



4^\ ..; ....... ^a^ t- 1 !■* ' TA .\notber interestina; paper is Protessor 



their success reflects much credit upon Dr. = i ^ 



c r AT,,.i- n,„ „ t ■ t 1 • 1 Hiitton'.-, "Catalogues of the New Zealand 



b. L,. Mark, the present instructor m ernbrv- ^ 



ology at Harvard, who encourages his stu- ^iptera. orthoptera. hymenoptera; with 



dents to carry on original researches. descriptions of the species." 



Mr. F. H. Spr-\gi'e gives ns the follow- 



At the meeting ot the French entomo- . ' ^ j- ' 1 , -j ^ 1 • . 



° ing notes upon rare diurnal lepidoptera which 



logical society, held Tuly 11. Mr. E, Lefevre .',,,... ^ -if 1 



- •' - he has taken the iiast summer in Massachu- 



^u^.,..^,l « 1.....,^ ..^Kt — 4- ..11:...^ t.. r> ^ 



showed a large solitary ant allied to Poiiera 

 found about Hong Kong, remarkable for the 

 extraordinary development of its mouth 

 parts, and for its power of leaping; being 

 able, when disturbed, to make bounds of 

 twenty to twenty-five centimetres. The 



setts. Griipta faiiiius (a pair), Leverett. 15 



Aug. Limcnitis proscrpina (faded $), 



Holyoke, 8 Aug. Argyiuiis ittlantis (several), 



Leverett. Mt. Tom, Mt. Holyoke. 7-17 Aug., 



appeared much earlier. Euptoiefa clandla., 



Maiden, a fine new $ each of the following 

 tatement was confirmed bv the experience , , j t , > o ,. t^- 



. .' . . dates : 17 and 27 July. I Aug.. 7 Sept. yinionia 



of earlier observers. .\s the legs are in no 

 way developed for springing, Mr. Lefivre 

 vyas inclined to think that it was accom- 



lavinia. Maiden, a fresh pair 21 July, one 



fresh specimen 21 Aug.: Jamaica Plain, a 



,. , , . , . , , new t?. iS lulv; Boston, a new specimen, 



plished in some waybv its buccal orsrans. — „ _ , .• . . , ■ ^, ,a 



„ . r, „; " „, iS Sept. Limrnitii urthemis. Maiden, a 



Science. 14 Sept. iSb?. v. 2. p. 5S6. ' , ,,..■■ n ^ 



^ ■' ' -^ poor 9- > Aug. : Amherst. 2 tair ?. 7 .\ug. ; 



During the last few years Papilio cres- South Hadley. a new g. 7 Aug.; Deerfield, 



///ow/c.s has been taken in Connecticut, but I ^ new J, 17 Aug. Fein'seca fanpiiiuns. 



do not find any record of its capture as far to Leverett. 7 fair specimens. 10 .\ug. ; Deer- 



