304 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Nov. , '03 



Notes and News. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL GLEANINGS FROM ALL QUARTERS 

 OF THE GLOBE. 



The mosquito doesn't believe in race suicide. 



When the devil wants to take a rest he turns the mosquitoes loose. 



The sluggard may go to the ant, but the mosquito will meet him more 

 than half way. 



-Mr. Henry L. Viereck is now at the Connecticut Agricultural Col- 

 lege, New Haven, Connecticut, and all mail should be so addressed. 



Mr. a. G. Weeks of Boston is hard at work getting into shape his 

 magnificent ilhistrated work on the Lepidoptera. It will take several 

 years to complete it. 



On page 271, October News I read C. {icindela), \ guttata nov. var., 

 and on page 273 C. nigrita nov. var. Now this method of publishing 

 new varieties has recently become rather prevalent, and something should 

 be said to check it. If the insect is a variety its name is necessarily a 

 trinominal, as Cicmdela sexguttata var. quad^^iquttata. To publish it as 

 a binomial, as if it were a distinct specips, is merely to create needless 

 confusion. In bibliographical work one has to cite what appears in 

 print, and this should not be misleading.— T. D. A. Cockerell, Colo- 

 rado Springs, Colo. 



The Ichneumon fly, which is called by the book-learned professors a 

 friendly insect, -has been seen by practical orchardists to be the guilty 

 fellow that stings the fruit and gives ^it the appearance of a pepper box. 

 It destroyed the fruit of Austria and Hungary in Europe, and stung and 

 injured the trees. Some of them were found dead with the stings in the 

 twigs of the trees. Col. A. Harrington of Springfield, Mo., saw this 

 (friendly) insect stinging his fruit, and he got the Moth Catcher and 

 cleared them out and made fine fruit. So this so-called (friend) was 

 seen by an orchardist, A. T. Warner, of Lawrenceville, 111 , stinging his 

 fruit and ruined its commercial value this year, 1902. 



Callidryas eubule in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. — While I have long 

 known this species to be of regular occurrence on the coast of Cape May 

 County, N. J . I had not until the present year observed it further north. 

 During August and September, 1903, I spent some days in the pine bar- 

 rens of New Jersey, and saw Callidryas repeatedly all the way from 

 West Creek near the coast to Chatsworth on the N. J. Southern Railroad. 

 Subsequently I found it rather common between Hammonton and 

 Pleasant Mills, and saw several at Camdei^ and one at Whitings. On 

 September 20th, one was also observed near the mouth of Darby creek, 

 in Delaware County, Pa. I think it very likely that the species occurs 

 regularly through the pine barren district, but possibly it is more abund- 

 ant this season thart usual. — Witmer Stone, Acad. Natural Sciences, 

 Phila. 



