I06 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [April, 



The following I have not been able to positively identify, and 

 cannot locate the types, if indeed they exist : 



Phalcena bicoloratoK Fabr. Sup. 149-150 ; Oporabia pwidipes 

 Curtis, Appen. Ross' 2nd voy. p. 73 ; Phasiane cruciata Grt. 

 Ann. Mag. N. H., 1883, p. 55 ; Hydriomena transversata Kelli- 

 cott, Buflf. Bull., vol. v, 45, 1886; Pryocycla johnso7iaria Fitch, 

 N. Y. Reports, xiii, 530. 



Of these O. punctipes is almost certainly Glaricopteryx polata ; 

 of P. cruciata I have lately seen the type and is one with P. 

 curvata Grt. H. transversata is probably H. truncata. The type 

 is lost. P. johnsonaria is almost certainly Endropia bilinearia 

 Pack, and antedates it. 



The following are shown in colored figures, but I feel uncer- 

 tain about them : 



Phalana virginiaria Cram., vol. iii, p. 275, f. G; Arrhostia 

 lumenaria Hiib., Zutr. f 757-758 ; Hypargytis pustiilaria Hiib., 

 i. 103-104; Dysstroma morosata Hiib., 879-880; Petrophora 

 divisata Hiib., Ex. Schm., Lep. v. Pet. B, Flavae a ; Eulepidotis 

 alabastaria Hiib., f 311-312 ; LarentiaprofugariaH.Sch. Auseu. 

 Schm., f 410-41 1. 



P. virginiaria looks like Bronchelia hortaria ; A. lumenaria 

 is very probably Ephyra pendulinaria Gn. ; H. pustularia is 

 likely Eumacaria btunneafia Pack. D. morosata may not be 

 from the United States, as the locality is given as " Nord 

 Amerika." E. alabastaria may be Acidalia emicleata Guen. 



Mr. Warren has quite a number of new species from North 

 America in the British Museum collection. They have type 

 labels and manuscript names upon them, but have not yet been 

 described. I have made no mention of them in these notes, as 

 they have as yet no scientific standing. The most of them are 

 synonyms of already described species, and with one or two 

 exceptions none have, I think, anything more than varietal 

 standing. 



The youth of Germany, Jaeger says, are extremely fond of Field- 

 crickets, so much so, that there is scarcely a boy to be seen who has not 

 several small boxes made expressly for keeping these insects in. So 

 much delighted are they, too, with their music, that they carry these 

 boxes of crickets into their bed-rooms at night, and are soothed to sleep 

 with their chirping lullaby. — Life of Amcr. Ins., p. 114. 



