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The last season was not a very propitious one for collecting lepidop- 

 tera in this country, and most of my collectors did only fairly well. Mr. 

 Bruce succeeded in obtaining some of the rarer Arctians, Cossidae and 

 Bombycidae in Colorado. Mr. Bean, of Laggan, raised the beautiful 

 Colias elis r^ and 9 , Antarctia Beanii Neumg., etc., from the larvae, and 

 captured a new Chionobas, coming ver>' near subhyalina Curt. My col- 

 lector on the upper Indian River, Fla., caught several specimens of the 

 handsome sphinx Di/ophonota caicus Cr., which will have to be added 

 to our fauna. So far the latter insect has only been obtained in Hayti, 

 Honduras and some parts of South America. — B. Neumoegen. 



Messrs. Fox and Johnson arrived in Philadelphia, Thursday, May 14th, 

 after a successful collecting tour in Jamaica. They saw one specimen of 

 Papilio hotnerus, but did not succeed in capturing it. 



Prof I. N. Mitchell reports Vanessa californica as having been taken 

 at Fond du Lac, Wis. 



Mr. H. F. Wickham left May 9th for a collecting tour in Alaska. He 

 expects to be gone until September. 



Identification of Insects (Imagos) for Subscribers. 



Specimens will be named under the following conditions : 1st, The number of speci- 

 mens to be unlimited for each sending; 2d, The sender to pay all expenses of transporta- 

 tion and the insects to become the property of the American Entomological Society ; 

 3d, Each specimen must have a number attached so that the identification may be an- 

 nounced accordingly. Address all packages to Entomological News, Academy Natural 

 Sciences, Logan Square, Philadelphia, Pa. 



Insects have been named for A. F. Winn, W. C. Wood, F. H. Hillman, 

 T. W. Glover and E. "B. Southwick. 



Entomological Iviteratuire. 



Transactions ok the Entomological Society of London, 1891, 

 pt. I, 178 pp. 9 plates. — Notes on the Genitalia of a Gynandromorphous 

 Eronia hippia, by Geo. T. Baker. A monograph of British Braconidae, 

 pt. 4, by Rev. Thomas A. Marshall. African Micro-Lepidoptera, by Right 

 Hon. Lord Walsingham. New species of moths from southern India, by 

 Col. Chas. Swinhoe. Conspicuous effects on the Markings and Coloring 

 of Lepidoptera caused by exposure of the pupa to different temperature 

 conditions, by Fred. Merrifield. On some recent additions to the list of 

 South African butterflies, by Roland Trimen. 



The Butterflies of North America, by W. H. Edwards; third 

 series, pt. 11. — This contains the life-histories of Apattira flora, Satyrus 

 meadii and Chionobas chryxiis, illustrating eggs, larv^a, chrysalids and 

 imagos. Mr. Edwards is to be congratulated in having reared C. chryxus 

 successfully, and giving such a beautiful illustration of the life-history of 

 a genus w'hich so little had been known of the earlier stages previous to' 

 the publication of his work. 



