Aui'ust— October 1S90 ] 



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ENTOMOLOGICAL NOTES. 



Dr. Willhim Patten has been appointed 

 professor of biology at the University of 

 North Dakota at Grand Fori<s. 



Dr. Clarence M. Weed, of the Ohio exper- 

 iment station, has editorial charge of the 

 department of entomology of the American 

 naturalist. 



Mr. Jerome McNeill of Moline, 111., has 

 been chosen professor of biology and geology 

 at the State University of Arkansas at 

 Fayetteville. 



CoRDULiXA. — In a note to Dr. H. A. Hagen 

 the Abbe Provancher writes that he has not 

 visited Mt. Yamaska since 1S77. So far as 

 known his original specimens of Epitheca 

 yaamaskanensis are the only ones extant. 

 Mr. Lintner also writes that he has not taken 

 Cordulia ///////eri since his first catch. 



Kolbe's Guide.— Part 4 of Kolbe's Ger- 

 man Guide to the knowledge of Insects, p. 

 177-224. is entirely devoted to the antennae 

 and mouth-parts with a large number of 

 simple but instructive and mostly original 

 figures. This excellent work was originally 

 announced to be completed in six or eight 

 parts, but as the author has not yet covered 

 more than one-sixth of the ground he laid 

 out in his prospectus, it is more likelv to 

 continue to twenty. 



Greenland Insects. — Aurivillius has 

 begun in the Handlingar of the Swedish 

 Academy a study of the insect fauna of 

 Greenland, which he is undertaking with his 

 usual thoroughness, as the first instalment, 

 including the lepidoptera and hymenoptera, 

 shows. It is accompanied by three plates, 

 and several excellent figures in the text. He 

 records 28 species of lepidoptera and 17 of 

 hymenoptera. The most numerous genera 

 of lepidoptera are Agrotis, 5 species, Plusia 

 and Hadena, 4 species each. The only new 

 species are one each of Anarta. Pimpla and 

 Banchus. 



Early last August a green cockroach 

 of considerable size, F*a>ic/i/ora ?iivea(L,inn.) , 

 was found alive, with a multitude of \oung 

 ones just hatched, in the bath room of a 

 house on Lafayette St., Salem, Mass., and 

 sent to Mr. S. H. Scudder for determination 

 bv Prof. E. S. Morse. It is a native of Cuba 

 aud Central America. It is curious that Mr. 

 Scudder has also in his collection a specimen 

 marked as found flying in a store in Boston, 

 26 December, 1S7S, on the authority of the 

 late Dr. Samuel Kneeland. 



The Apple Maggot, Trypeta pomo/iella, 

 is the subject of an elaborate report by Prof. 

 F. L. Harvey of the Maine State College. 

 The investigations were made in 1SS8 and 

 1889 chiefly at Orono, though the dale and 

 place of publication are not noted. The 

 species is described and figured in all its 

 stages and its life-history and habits are 

 given in detail. As the larvae do not leave 

 the fruit until it falls from the trees the 

 thorough and universal destruction of wind- 

 falls is recommended as the best remedy. 



Lepidoptera Indica. — Three parts of 

 Moore's Lepidoptera Indica, including 80 

 pp. of letter press and 24 plates, have now ap- 

 peared and the author has not yet more than 

 half completed the euplocinae with which he 

 begins his work and of which thirteen genera 

 and thirty-five species are so far character- 

 ized; this gives a lively impression of the 

 ditference between that fauna and our own. 

 The additions to our knowledge of the earlier 

 stages are interesting; the caterpillars and 

 chrysal ids of seven species are given (from one 

 to three figures of each) of as many genera, 

 and their peculiarities certainly seem to sup- 

 port the closer subdivision of these Eastern 

 ciiploci»ae o( which My. Moore has been the 

 foremost supporter. About half of these 

 same species have before had their earlier 

 stages figured, but of these as well the illus- 

 trations are new; never before have the eii- 

 ploeinae been so well illustrated in their 

 earlier life. All the figures appear to have 

 been put upon the stone by Mr. Moore's son. 



