Sept., '03] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 24I 



Notes and News. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL GLEANINGS FROM ALL QUARTERS 

 OF THE GLOBE. 



Say ! If a fly gives birth to a little fly, is the sister to the mother of 

 the little fly an ant? 



"What's the matter ? " asked the centipede. "The doctor tells me I 

 have one foot in the grave," replied the worm. "Oh, I wouldn't let a 

 little thing like that worry me," said the centipede. 



New name for Dictyopteryx Pictet. — The name of this very distinct 

 genus of Perlidae is preoccupied by Dictyopteryx Stephens, Catalogue, 

 1829. Pictet first published the name in 1841. Therefore, I propose for 

 the Perlid genus the name Perlodes. — Nathan Banks. 



The plates of Sphingidae, by Calverley, Weidemeyer and Edwards, 

 which were for sale by the American Entomological Society, have all 

 been sold. If any one wants this work, he can obtain a set of the plates 

 from the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences and the letter-press 

 from the American Entomological Society. 



Troctes needhami and T. bicolor Enderlein, recently described in the 

 Zool. Jahrbiicher , Abth. f. Syst., xviii, 360, 1903, are synonyms of Troc- 

 tes niger and T. bicolor described by me in the Entom. News, 1900, pp. 

 559, 560. All the types come from Virginia, and the fact that Enderlein 

 called one of his species T. bicolor would indicate that he does not 

 examine the Zool. Record very carefully. — Nathan Banks. 



Miscodera arctica Payk. — While collecting at Mt. Ktaadn, Me., last 

 summer, during the latter part of August, I collected a specimen of Mis- 

 codera arctica Payk. near the base of the mountain, at an elevation of 

 3000 feet. The specimen has been identified for me by Mr. C. Schaeffer, 

 of the Brooklyn Museum. Mr. Samuel Henshaw writes me that he has 

 records of its capture in Northern Michigan, Alaska and New Found- 

 land. — H. G. Barber. 



Alevrodes (Trialeurodes) vitrinellus Ckll. — This is a new spe- 

 cies found abundantly (with much black fungus) on the under side of what 

 appear to be orange leaves from the garden of Nezahualcoyotl, Tezcuco, 

 Mexico, I have sent a description to Prof. A. L. Herrera, who sent me 

 the specimens, but as the Mexican publications do not circulate so widely 

 as the News, it is worth while to indicate here that it is a species closely 

 allied to A. Jloridensis, but with the pupa larger (about 900 /". long), 

 without any dark markings, and with the fringe of glass-like rods coarser 

 and somewhat longer. There is no dorsal secretion. The vasiform ori- 

 fice is broad-cordiform, with the apical notch very faint ; the operculum 

 is very broad, not at all pointed. The adult is yellow. — T. D. A. 



COCKERELL. 



