May, '03] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 159 



Cobwebs Figure in Murder Trial. — In the trial at David City, Neb., 

 recently, of Mrs. Harvey Lillie, charged with the murder of her husband, 

 the theory of the defense that a burglar killed Harvey Lillie was given a 

 hard blow. The State .presented ex-Sheriff Derby, who testified that he 

 examined the keyhole of the lock alleged to have been forced by the 

 burglar. The lock and keyhole were filled with cobwebs and dust on the 

 morning following the murder. — Newspaper. 



Kiefferiella, a new name for Kiefferia Ashmead. In the last num- 

 ber of Psyche, I established a genus of Figitids under the name Kiefferia 

 which I find is preoccupied in the Diptera. I propose therefore the name 

 Kiefferiella in place.— Wm. H. Ashmead. 



Odonata of New Jersey. — In looking over the current popular mag- 

 azines I stumbled upon a recognizable figure of a nymph of Hagenius 

 brevistylus, ' and a note which gives a new New Jersey locality — Wild- 

 wood Lake, P. O. Franklin Furnace. This was in the February 5/, 

 Nicholas, p. 364. The editorial answer to the inquiry of the correspond- 

 ent contained this remarkable contribution to the confusion of the term- 

 inology of the immature stages of insects: "The full grown dragonfly 

 nymph changes its form from a slender creature to a broad, flat one, that 

 has but little, if any, resemblance to the slender-bodied larva or to the 

 adult." I am afraid I do not understand this. I suppose it is an ento- 

 mological fragment, dressed up (or down) into that ''correct literary 

 form" which is the first requisite of a popular magazine, that expresses 

 by suggestion, and which is freer to suggest when unhampered by facts. 

 — ^James G. Needham, Lake Forest, Illinois. 



"Notes on a [Japanese] Parasitic Moth," U. Nawa, Gifu, Japan. 

 — In the number of the Insect World, issued January 15, 1903 (vol vii, 

 No. I), U. Nawa publishes in English an interesting account under the 

 heading, " Notes on a Parasitic Moth." He states that this moth is par- 

 asitic on Pomponia j'aponensis , P. fnaculaticollis, and Graptopsaltria cal- 

 orata (Cicadidse). He also mentions closely allied specimens on Ricania 

 japonica, but neither species has been determined, nor is he certain 

 whether they are distinct from each other. The life habits are given, and 

 each form described, and the moth, its antennae, wings, larva, pupa and 

 cocoon, together with two of the parasitized hosts are figured in color. 



This publication, now running in its seventh volume and usually printed 

 entirely in Japanese, bears excellent witness to the scientific industry and 

 attainments of that race. It is issued by that energetic worker, Y. Nawa, 

 from his laboratories in Gifu, and one regrets in looking at its tempting 

 pages and interesting illustrations, that he is not familiar with all lan- 

 guages.— J. Chester Bradley. 



On Cystineura floridana, Strecker.— In Lep. Rhop. Heter, suppl. No. 

 3, p 24, 1900, Strecker described a Cystineura from Florida, to which he 

 gave the xid^m^ floridana. 



