* 5. S. H. Scudder. On the food-plant (sedges) and 

 habits of (Eneis semidea ; on the habits of (E. Aello. p. 119. 



* 6. A. S. Packard. On the transformations of the com- 

 mon house fly, with notes on allied forms, p. 136 - 150, 

 with a triple plate (iii) of einbryological and transitional de- 

 tails. 



Musca domestica, Calliphora vomitoria, Sarcophaga carnaria, Stomoxys 

 calcitrans. 



* 7. B. Pickman Mann. Description of a monstrous fe- 

 male imago of Anisopteryx pometaria, with remarks on the 

 pupa. p. 163-165. 



Female with aborted wings and pectinated antennae ; female pupae have 

 wing-cases, but no wings. 



Interesting Capture. 



On April 19 I took at Hyde Park a hibernated specimen of 

 Nymplutlis Milberti Godt. This species, common as it is in 

 the northern part of New England, is extremely rare near 

 Boston, which seems to be very near its southern limit, al- 

 though single specimens have been recorded as taken as far 

 south as Long Island and Philadelphia. I know of but one 

 specimen having been observed in Connecticut, but in Massa- 

 chusetts, west of Boston, several have been taken at Spring- 

 field, Williamstown, and other localities. As we go north it 

 becomes very abundant, and in New Hampshire, Canada, and 

 northern New York, it is one of the commonest species. I 

 have caught at Binghamton, N. Y., as many as twenty-five or 

 thirty specimens in the course of an hour. H. K. Morrison. 



Hentz's Spideiis. — The papers on Araneidae of the United States, pub- 

 lished many years ago in the Boston Journal of Natural History and else- 

 where, are to be collected and reprinted in a single volume by the Boston 

 Society of Natural History, and edited by the Secretary, Mr. Edward 

 Burgess. The work will be published in June, and will contain about one 

 hundred pages and nineteen plates, including two new plates, mostly of 

 structural details, by Emerton, and all the old ones, either from the original 

 copperplates or heliotype reproductions. Mr. Emerton will also contribute 

 notes upon the species. B. Pickman Mann. 



