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It may not be new, but I have found out that the corrugated paper and 

 the ground cork paper used by druggists for packing bottles are good 

 substitutes for peat in lining the bottoms of cigar boxes and trays used 

 for storing mounted insects. They do not resist common pins and they 

 hold. — F. A. Chase. 



Names of TRVPHONiN.t;. — In looking over Prof. Davis' interesting 

 paper (Tr. Am. Ent. Soc. xxiv) it appeared that a few of the names needed 

 correction. Mima, n. g. Davis (p. 219) is preoccupied by Mima Meig., 

 1820, and must be changed. So, also, must Westwoodia Prov. (p. 279), 

 there being no less than six genera previously so named ! If the synonymy 

 given to Camerotops uhnicola (p. 226) is correct, the insect should be 

 Camerotops Jiavosus (Ashm.). It may also be remarked, while on the 

 subject of names, that the genus Cacus Riley (Ashm., Mon. Proct., p. 223) 

 is preoccupied by Cacus Selys, 1854. — T. D. A. Cockerell. 



Phoeni.x, Ariz. — First of all please send my News to me here, as it 

 will be a welcome visitor. I reached here at the tail end of the season's 

 collecting, but have picked up some very fine specimens. Collecting here, 

 outside of the work done at the lights, is hard work, and every specimen 

 taken in the desert represents downright labor. The heat is intense and 

 specimens must be hunted — you must carry all the water you want to 

 drink in the field as there are no water holes for miles, and if you run 

 short God help you — you dry up in no time. Am now picking up the 

 night-flying moths as the beetles have gone to sleep. Dr. Kunz^ is a 

 worker, and, for a man of his years, a wonder. People who have theories 

 about collecting here want to come out and see how quickly they fall by 

 the wavside. — H. G. Griffith. 



Entomological Literature. 



Under the above head it is intended to note such papers received at the Academy of 

 Natural Sciences of Philadelphia pertaining to the Entomology of the Americas (North 

 and South). Articles irrelevant to American entomology, unless monographs, or con- 

 taining descriptions of new genera, will not be noted. Contributions to the anatomy, 

 physiology and embryology of insects, however, whether relating to American or exotic 

 species, will be recorded. The numbers in heavy-faced type refer to the journals, as 

 numbered in the following list, in which the papers are published ; * denotes that the 

 paper in question contains descriptions of new North American forms. 



1, Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 

 1897, part ii, October.' — 4. The Canadian Entomologist, London, Ont., 

 November, '97. — 5. Psyche, Cambridge, Mass., November, '97. — 7. U. 

 S. Department of Agriculture, Division of Entomology, Bulletin No. 9, 

 new series, Washington '97.— 11. The Annals and Magazine of Natural 

 History, London, October, '97. — 22. Zoologischer Anzeiger, Leipsic; 

 Nos. 530, April 27; 531, May 17; 532, May 31; 533, June 14; 535, July 5; 

 536, July 19; 538, Aug. 16; 539, Aug. 30; 540, Sept. 13; 541, Sept. 30; 542, 



