392 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [March, 



Pangonia Chrysocoma, Osten Sacken, 



By James S. Hine. 



It was five or six years ago that I read in Psyche^ Professor 

 Aldrich's description of Goniops hippoboscoides. I was much 

 interested in the species at the time, as it occurred so near the 

 locaUty in which I had collected oftentimes, and also as I had 

 previously become interested in the Tabanidse, its natural family. 

 On July 25, 1898, while collecting in a rocky woods in Medina 

 County, Ohio, I was successful enough to procure a female of 

 the species, and within the next ten days two more, but was 

 not able to procure or see the male. The past Summer, in the 

 same locality, on July 19th, a male was taken, but upon com- 

 paring it with males of Pang07iia clwysocoma, Osten Sacken, 

 taken at Pittsburg, Pa., I was convinced that it is that species. 



Upon investigation of literature I find that Osten Sacken's 

 description of the female of P. chrysocoma exactly describes 

 the female which I identified by Aldrich's description and 

 figure in Psyche as G. hippoboscoides, but does not mention the 

 acute angle in which the eyes terminate above, a characteristic 

 which is mentioned as one of the best characters of the genus 

 (Joniops. Since the wide front and small, acute-angled eyes 

 are not to be found in the female of other species placed under 

 Pangonia it might be well to retain Goniops for chrysocoma. 



The habits of the species in the field are interesting. Several 

 of the specimens taken were first located by means of the 

 peculiar noise they make while at rest. They stationed them- 

 .selves on the upper side of a leaf and by vibrating their wings, 

 striking the leaf at each downward stroke, make a rattling 

 noi.se which could be head plainly several feet away, 



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COLLECTING NOTES* 



Hy FkivD. C. Howditch. 

 > passed the last three weeks of August at Northfield, Mass. , 

 a small town on the ea.st bank of the Coiuiecticut River, and 

 adjoining the New Hampshire line. Karly in the season I 

 should judge the locality would be a fine collecting ground, as 

 thtfre is a good variety of meadow, hill, valley and forest suffi- 



