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ceutical Society, furnished the desired information. In the meanwhile, 

 however, finding that in London they could get no information as to Lon- 

 don pyrple, they tried London, Canada, and finally wrote to us in Wash- 

 ington. The morals which they draw from the story are that manu- 

 facturers should advertise in the Gardeners' Chronicle^ and the popular 

 names are " time-wasting, trouble-giving, and truth concealing." 



A LITTLE- USED BIBLIOGRAPHY. 



It is unnecessary to call the attention of entomologists to the im- 

 portance of such comprehensive bibliographies as th^ Zoological Record^ 

 the Zoologischer Jahresbericht and the Berichte ilber die Leistungen auf 

 deni Gebiet der Entomologie. Every working entomologist who desires to 

 keep abreast with the current literature must have them all or at least 

 one of them. It is, however, not generally known that the German 

 Botanical Record {Bota lischer Jahresbericht) also contains an entomo- 

 logical chapter, viz, on insect injury to i»lants, including galls and plant 

 deformations caused by insects. The literature on the latter subject is 

 here more fully treated than in the Zoological Records, but largely 

 from the botanical stand-point. The entomological citor is now the 

 well-known Hymenopterist, Prof. K. W. von Dalla Torre, of Innsbruck, 

 Austria. 



NEW GENERA AND SPECIES OF PHYCITIDJE. 



At the meeting of the French Entomological Society, held January 8, 

 1890, Mons. E. Ragonot presented the descriptions of the following new 

 genera and species of North American Fhycitidce: {Ann. 8oc. Ent. France 

 1890, B%dl. des seances, pp. vii-viii) ; TJlophora n. g., type; U. groteiiw. 

 sp. from Korth Carolina. (To this genus belongs Myelois guarinella Zeller 

 froui Columbia); Glyptocera n. g., type: Ephestia consobrijiella ZaWeVy 

 Laodaniia, n. g., type: Pempelia fiecella Zeller; Lwtilia, n. g., type: 

 Dalcruma coccidivora Comstock. 



A SOCIAL PAPILIO LARVA. 



None of our North American species of Papilio can be called social 

 in the larva state, and even when they are abundant on one particular 

 tree, e. g., tlie larvne of P. cresphontes on a young Orange tree or on 

 a Prickly Ash, they are not social since it is evident that they do not 

 care for the company of each other. It is rather strange, therefore, 

 that in a species from Cuba {Papilio oxynius Hlibn.), the larvte should 

 be social. Dr. P. Gundlach, the venerable explorer of the Cuban 

 fauna, has already recorded this fact in his contributions to the Cuban 

 Entomology, but he has corroborated his former observations by recent 

 experience communicated in a letter to Mr. E. G. Honrath (Berl. Ent. 

 Zeits., V. 33, 1890," p. (8) ). It appears that the larvae of this Papilio 

 feed at night on a species of Xanthoxylum (Prickly Ash), but during 



