1890.] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 3I 



The Entomologische Zeitschrift, Dresden, Band 2, 1889, con- 

 tains a ver>^ interesting and valuable paper to lepidopterists entitled: " Lep- 

 idopteren der Insel Palawan," by Dr. O. Staudinger. It covers one 

 hundred and seventy-seven pages enumerating two hundred and eighty- 

 three species collected by Dr. Platen. At the end of the paper are two 

 ver\- useful lists of species, one being systematic and the other alphabetical. 

 About sixty new species are described, and some of them illustrated, there 

 being two plates, containing thirty figures, which are photographic repro- 

 ductions. Copious notes are given u ith each species listed. Among the 

 interesting new forms were two species of Ornithoptera. Palawan is one 

 of the Phillipines, and is two hundred and sixty miles long by thirty wide, 

 the interior being mountainous, and the west flat. The products of the 

 island are cowries, gold, ebony and other fine woods. Also two papers by 

 C. Ribbe; one on two new diurnals from Africa, and the other on new- 

 butterflies from Banggassa, a small isle in the Celebes, illustrated by two 

 plates, seven figures. A paper by H. Ribbe on some aberations in the 

 •collection of Gustav Borneman, is also of interest to lepidopterists. 



H. Skinner. 



Doings of Societies. 



Colorado Biological Assocl\tion, West Clifi", Oct. 19, 1889. — Mr. 

 •Cockerell exhibited and made remarks on a number of Hymenoptera, m 



• eluding Vipio coloradetisis Ashm. 9 . collected in the Wet Mountain Valley, 



• Col. This was only the second example of the species known. 



December 14th Mr. S. H. Scudder was announced as a corresponding 

 member. Letters from Mr. Ashmead, containing identifications of Hy- 

 menoptera and Hemiptera, and from Rev. G. D. Hulst, containing identi- 

 fications of Lepidoptera, were laid before the meeting. 



All these insects had been collected in Wet Mountain Valley, Custer 

 County, Col. The Hymenoptera included Glyphe flavipes Ashm., Ho- 

 malotylus bifasciatus Ashm., etc. The Lepidoptera included two new 

 species: Ragonotia saganella Hulst and Caripeta niveostriata Hulst, and 

 a species, Altoona ardiferella Hulst, of which only one specimen was 

 previously known. T. D. A. Cockerell, Sec. 



The Entomological Society of London, Dec. 14, 1889.— Mr. W. L. 

 Distant exhibited on behalf of Mr. L. de Nic^ville, a branch of a walnut 

 tree on which was a mass of eggs laid by a new Lycsenid butterfly, which 

 Mr. de Nic^ville had referred to a new genus and described as Chceto- 

 Procta odata. It w as said to occur only at elevations above 5000 feet in 

 N. W. India. Dr. Sharp exhibited eggs from a South American bug, 

 Piezosternimi subti/atum, which, though taken from a completely rotten 

 imago, were in a perfect state of preservation. He also exhibited a speci- 



