2g8 " ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [November, 



to light many of my old New York friends, the Catocalce. I was told 

 here on the sea-shore I would find Catocaits very scarce, and in few va- 

 rieties, but in one week's collectmg, starting June 24th, I took Catocala 

 nubilis, efovympha, gracilis, sordida var., grynea, fratercula var., poly- 

 gama, clintonii, ultronia, coccinata, el/a, uxor var. Iristis, epione, mulier- 

 cula, prceclara and four other varieties not yet determined. The woods 

 here are nearly all pine, with scrub oak, pin oak, swamp hickory, swamp 

 maple, swamp gum, yellow poplar and magnolia scattered through them, 

 mostly in clearings where the large pines have been cut. I hardly ex- 

 pected to see C. tristis here, yet I took seven in one night, and three C. 

 coccinata on another evening. C. epiotie was plentiful and flew just at 

 sundown, the first always to appear. C. elottympha was also among the 

 first. I took a fine, fresh example on the 20th of May. I feel sure if I 

 had been able to put in every night from the first of June I could have 

 taken several thousand examples of Catocala alone. Other noctuids 

 were plentiful in June, very few in July. Of the Sphingidae, C. catalpa 

 was very plentiful, also amynator ; also 6". plebeius, A. choerilus and 

 myron, and several others. For a few weeks in June Callinwrpha ves- 

 talis was so common along the edges of the salt marsh that thousands 

 could have been taken in a day, while Homoptera edusa and lunata, in 

 all sizes and shades of color, literally cover the trees at night. Another 

 year I expect to be able to collect the whole season. — O. D. Foulks, 

 Stockton, Md. 



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Entomological Literatuire, 



1. Le Naturaliste Canadiex, xxii, 8, 9. — The last descriptions of 

 L'Abb6 Provancher (cont.). 



2. Proceedings of the Royal Societv of Victoria, vii (new series). 

 — Contributions to a knowledge of the Rhynchota of Australia, E. Berg- 

 roth. 



3. Indian Museum Notes. Calcutta, iii, 4 — An account of the insects 

 and mites which attack the tea plant in India, E. C. Cotes. 



