326 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Dec, 'o2 



Notes and. News. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL. GLEANINGS FROM ALL QUARTERS 

 OF THE GLOBE. 



^LLOPOS FADUS VAR. TITAN, Cram. — A Specimen of this southern 

 sphmgid was taken at Las Vegas, N. M , in July, by Mr. Arnold Garlick. 

 It was a surprise to see it so far north. — T. I). A. Cockerell. 



Mr. O. W. Barrett is now at Mayagiiez, Porto Rico, with the Porto 

 Rico Agricultural Experiment Station. The economic side of botanical 

 and entomological questions leaves bat little room for the other sides 

 with him. 



Prof. Cockerell writes as follows in regard to the poem on page 297 

 November News : " You think the ponderous idiocy in the middle of page 

 297 is funny." The author doubtless thought it pretty good or he would 

 not have sent it to the News. I must confess I thought it funny, but on 

 reflection I have changed my mind. It is really tragical, as many insects 

 are not represented by descriptions but by types, and if the genera An- 

 threnus and Dermestes are not annihilated, or if railroads cease to be, or 

 if humaus degenerate into legless beings, the very thing described in the 

 poem will come to pass, not in the unnamable place, but on earth. — H. S. 



Papilio Philenor in New Hampshire. — An interesting instance of a 

 butterfly following its food plant into new regions was furnished by the 

 discovery of two colonies of philenor larvae on pipe vines {Aristolochia 

 sipho) in Claremont early in August. Only three single captures of this 

 insect have previously been reported from this State. As its food plant 

 has of late years become quite a favorite ornamental vine in this region 

 there would appear good reason to believe that this insect had perma- 

 nently established itself here. The disparity in size between the broods 

 above mentioned would indicate tliat they were from different parents. 

 A portion of one brood was confined and imagos were bred from them 

 September 7th to loth. To-day I saw a specimen in flight feeding at ver- 

 bena flowers. — F. H. Foster, Claremont, N. H. 



The strongest attraction at the Science Museum in Springfield, Mass., 

 this past summer was a display of live caterpillars by Dr. George Dim- 

 mock. Quite a variety of species were shown, and as they reached 

 maturity and pupated, others were constantly added until the close of the 

 season. It was a piece of real missionary work and a revelation to most 

 of the visitors. A proof that grey hairs do not always bring wisdom was 

 the lament'ible ignorance of most of the oidt-r people in comparison with 

 the rising generation, as was evinced by their ([uestions. Many of these 

 worthies were greatly surprised to find that Iht-re are other kinds of cater- 

 pillars besides the silk-worm and tomato-worm. Rut the climax was 

 furnished by a distinguished looking lady, evidently anxious to prove her 



