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PSYCHE. 



[February 1S93. 



and were kindly given me by Professor 

 Shimek. 



1. Telracha Carolina. 



2. Cicindela sperata. 



3. Cicindela lemniscata. 



4. Bledius armatus. 



5. Lachnosterna longitarsis. 



6. Lachnosterna fusca. 



7. Lachnost. crassissima. 

 S. Lachnosterna hirticula. 

 9. Cyclocephala (mixed set). 45 



10. Cyclocephala immaculata. iS 



11. Cyclocephala " 



12. Chalepus obsoietus. 



13. Krgates spiculatus. 



14. Prionus californicus. 



15. Macrobasis atrivittata. 



In eight cases we find a preponder- 

 ance of males ; in six the females are 

 more numerous, while in one case an 

 equal number of each sex is found. In 

 no instance is the set composed entirely 

 of males, though the reverse has 

 occurred once, and in a very large 

 series. 



It is worthy of note that many species 

 which are usually considered strictly 



Lepidopterological Notes. — It will 

 please our readers to hear that Mr. W. H. 

 Edwards has received a grant of $500 from 

 the Bache Fund of the National academy of 

 sciences to complete the publication of his 

 researches into the life histories of American 

 butterflies. 



One of the most zealous collectors of Indian 

 Lepidoptera has been Col. Knyvett, who for 

 many years has been in charge of the police 

 forces in the province of Bengal and has util- 

 ized the native policemen in his entomologi- 

 cal labors. His entire collection, numbering 

 over 700 species of rhopalocera in splendid 

 suites and nearly 2000 species of heterocera 

 in equally fine suites, about 10,000 specimens, 



diurnal in habit are attracted a long 

 distance by light — as, for example, a 

 number of Cicindelae. Of the genus 

 Cicindela I have taken lepida, punctu- 

 lata and praetextata in such situations 

 as well as the two mentioned in the 

 table. No rule can be formulated in 

 this case as to the attraction exerted on 

 each sex — sometimes the males are 

 more numerous, sometimes the females. 



Several genera of Scarabaeidae, not 

 here tabulated, show a varying propor- 

 tion of females. Cheiroplatys clunalis* 

 which appears in our Check-list under 

 three specific names under the genera 

 Aphonus and Orizabus, furnishes about 

 equal numbers of each sex. Polyphylla 

 is chiefly seen in the male sex and the 

 same is true, so far as my experience 

 goes, of Plectrodes. 



It will be seen, then, from the fore- 

 going notes, that captures of Coleoptera 

 at light need by no means be confined 

 to males only and that it can hardly be 

 stated as a general rule that these alone 

 are attracted. 



has been purchased at the suggestion of Dr. 

 Holland by Mr. Andrew Carnegie. They 

 will be under Dr. Holland's care and ulti- 

 mately be placed in the museum which Mr. 

 Carnegie is building in Pittsburgh, Penn. 

 The specimens have all been examined and 

 named by the most eminent English special- 

 ists, Elwes, Hampson, Warren, Myrick and 

 Butler. 



Blatchley records 108 species of Indiana 

 butterflies in a catalogue published in the 17th 

 report of the state geologist, 1892. 



* For the synonymy of this species see Mr. H. W. 

 Bates in Biologia Centrali-Americana, Insecta, Cole- 

 optera, Vol. II, part 2, p. 321. 



