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In answer to Dr. Skinner's article in Entomological News, Vol. i, p. 

 20, in which he desires to correct an error I made in describing the cocoon 

 of Callosamia angulifera, I should like to say that the cocoon of angu- 

 lifera, which I bred, could only be distinguished from that of Promethea 

 by its larger size. I have also distinct evidence that the larva of angu- 

 lifera will spin a silken thread, by means of which it hangs to branches of 

 trees. The cocoon of angulifera when spun on the ground is exactly as 

 Dr. Skinner describes it. I was unacquainted with this form when I made 

 my description (Ent. Am. V. p. 200). — Wm. Beutenmuller. 



What Mr. Beutenmuller says is undoubtedly true, angulifera does spin 

 a thread occasionally, but it is the exception that proves the rule. Mr. 

 Philip Laurent, in a large collecting experience found one suspended, all 

 the others he has found were under tulip poplar trees. Mr. F. M. Jones 

 sent me one with the silken thread. I have collected in a single day more 

 than a quart of angulifera cocoons, not all of them alive, however, and 

 never saw one suspended, and for negative evidence I may say I have 

 found thousands of promethia cocoons on poplar, etc. , and never had an 

 angulifera emerge from them. — H. Skinner. 



Lord Walsingham, in his Presidential address, estimated the number 

 of species of insects as upwards of two millions, and further said, "we 

 may well ask ourselves who can venture to assume the appellation of 

 ' Entomologist?' or even of Lepidopterist or Hymenopterist? Surely, our 

 successors in this Society must one day be content to be called Pieridists, 

 Gelechidists, Hispidists, or Cicindelidists, according to their different 

 branches of study." 



" We have abundant evidence that the whole field of zoological research 

 apart from Entomology is but small as compared to that in which the Fel- 

 lows of this Society (Ent. Soc. London) are interested, when we see that 

 in Central America one small family of Coleoptera, the Hispidae exceed 

 the whole of the mammalia." 



Dr. W. L. Abbott has left the Kilimanjaro region. He was heard from 

 at Zanzibar, and intended to leave there shortly to study the fauna of the 

 Comoro Islands and Madagascar. 



Erebia epipsodea. In " Butterflies of North America," Pt. 9, Vol. iii, 

 Mr. W. H. Edwards gives us a very interesting account of E. epipsodea. 

 He gfivesas its geographical distribution " Middle Colorado northward to 

 the Arctic Sea." It comes, however, a little further South than this, and 

 it may be worth while to fix its most southern point as at present known. 

 Mr. H. W. Nash informs me that he has taken it at Music Pass, Custer 

 County, Col., and at Bonanza, Sagmache County, Col. The first of these 

 localities is about N. Lat. 38°, the other is rather more northern. — T. D. 

 A. Cockerell, West Cliff, Custer County, Col. 



On January 20th, while in Baltimore, I captured a fine specimen of 

 Chion cinctus Drury, crawling on the sidewalk. Ergo: the early bug 

 catches the pin. — C. A. Blake. 



