March, '02] entomological news. 89 



party, and no data given. From Prof. Elrod's list, Ent. News, January, 

 1898, you will note this as new to Iowa. 



I wish to thank Dr. Calvert for identifying and pointing out these facts. 

 — M. E. HoAG. 



AsPiDiOTUS HEDERyK IN AUSTRALIA. — Mr. James Lidgett was in too 

 much of a hurry when he wrote his article (p. 43) on this subject, or he 

 would have noticed : 



(i.) That A. hederce is the same as A. fterii, which has long been 

 known from various localities in Australia (see Maskell, Trans. N. Z. 

 Inst., xxvii, p. 4.) 



(2.) That the synonyms of A. hederce in the Suppl. to Check-List of 

 Coccidae are on the authority of Berlese and Leonardi, as is stated in a 

 footnote. Moreover, I add, " The names cited as synonymous doubtless 

 represent at least several good varieties." 



(3.) That Pandelon is a place, and not a plant. — T. D. A. Cockerell. 



Mrs. C. E. Gresham, of Lynn, Mass., sends us the following account 

 of an observation made by her deceased father, Alfred F. Chatfield. "A 

 pebble brought out of a hole by an ant in an ant hill, weighed one-half a 

 carat or two grains. Nine of the ants from the hill weighed only one-half 

 a grain. Thus it is shown that one ant can lift thirty-six times its own 

 weight." 



Orneodes hexadactvla, Linn. — On April 23, 1900, I took a single 

 specimen of this species at this place. Prof. C. H. Fernald, in his " Ptero- 

 phoridaj of North America," says that this species occurs in the western 

 part of this country, and gives as its habitat Europe, Missouri, California, 

 Oregon, Canada, Manitoba. Has it been taken before so far east ? — C. 

 O. Houghton, Ithaca, N. Y. 



Schistocerca alutacea and Rubiginosa. — On September 2, 1901, 

 while collecting between Atsion and Quaker Bridge, Burlington County, 

 New Jersey, the writer secured specimens of Schistocerca alutacea and 

 rubiginosa. The most interesting thing in connection with the captures 

 was the finding of one sex of one form paired with the opposite sex of 

 the other form. This evidence, together with the close relationship of 

 the forms, leads one to question the absolute distinctness of the two. 

 Specimens in the collection of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Phila- 

 delphia, taken on the above-mentioned date, are perfectly typical of the 

 two forms, and the two would be flushed from the same bush, but others 

 are an apparently intermediate phase, in which the dorsal stripe does not 

 extend beyond the tip of the pronotum to any marked degree. The 

 last-mentioned specimens would possibly be considered representative of 

 the brown phase of .S. alutacea, but the whole matter seems deserving of 

 more attention, as apparently too much stress has been laid on variable 

 or uncertain color characters.— James A. G. Rehn. 



