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the prisoner was resisting death, contrary to all reason, crickets, grass- 

 hoppers, wasps, moths and butterflies introduced to the same space, all 

 responded as they should. The third case occurred a feww'eeks since 

 the same species as the preceding with similar behavior. 



Have others observed similar behavior by any insect? What explana- 

 tion occurs to any one? — D. S. Kellicott. 



Danais archippus. — Sunday, September 6th, present year, I went after 

 Catocala. It was a showery day and did not go beyond our suburbs. 

 Only one specimen was seen in a fine grove, but not taken. While ex- 

 amining trees, a boy, who stood watching me, called my attention to a 

 Danaid circling overhead in a near-by place. Presently it flew and set- 

 tled on the twig of a dead branch on one of the lowermost limbs of an 

 Acer rubra. I told the boy to watch it for me, which he did, and inform 

 me of its movements. A thunderstorm could be heard at a distance. It 

 was about i p.m., and on its approach the Danaid tod)s. refuge in the foliage 

 of a Liquidambar. That maple had only a very few scattered red leaves 

 among its foliage, and the insect hung on that branch exactly half an hour 

 until aroused by thunder. — Richard E. Kunze, M.D. 



Identification of Insects (Images) for Subscribers. 



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

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Insects have been named for F. L. Harvey, H. C. Denslow, J. H. Bom- 

 berger, C. P. Gillette. 



Entomological LiteratuLre. 



The Transactions of the Entomological Society of London, 

 pL 3, 1891. — On a new species o{ Prothoe, by Philip Crowley (illustrated). 

 Notes on the Orthopterous family Mecopodidae, by W. F. Kirby. Note 

 on Siphonophora ariocarpi\NQSiw., by J. O. Westwood. On the South 

 American species of Diabrotica, pt. 2, by Chas. J. Gahan. 



BiOLOGiA Centrali-Americana: pt. 94, July, 1891. — Coleoptera: vol. 

 ii, pt. I, by D. Sharp, pi. 11; vol. iv, pt. 2, by G. C. Champion, pp. 257- 

 314, pi. 11; vol. vi, pt. I, suppl., by M. Jacoby, pp. 265-272. Lepidoptera- 

 Heterocera, by H. Druce, vol. i, pis. 28, 29; vol. ii, pp. 1-5, pt. 95, Sep- 

 tember, 1891. Coleoptera: vol. ii, pt. i, by D. Sharp, pp. 385-432; vol. 

 iv, pt. 2, by G. C. Champion, pis. 12, 13; vol. vi, pt i, suppl., by M. 

 Jacoby, pi. 41. Lepidoptera-Heterocera, by H. Druce, vol. i, pis. 40, 41. 



