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In the News for October, 1893, p. 270, we reprinted from the "Zoolog- 

 ischer Anzeiger," a new classification of the Tracheate Arthropods pro- 

 posed by Mr. R. I. Pocock. In "Nature" for Dec. 7, 1893, Mr. Pocock 

 states that Dr. E. Haase has informed him that in Scolopendrella the 

 generative openings "are situated on the fourth body-segment. This 

 genus is therefore progoneate, like the Dilopoda and Pauropoda ; but 

 whether it should be ranged with these two classes, or occupy an inde- 

 pendent position between the Progoneata and Opisthogoneata, is a ques- 

 tion for future discussion." Owing to our not receiving the proof of the 

 note in the October News, certain errors are contained in it which we 

 take this opportunity to correct: line 6, for " Pauropod," read "Pauro- 

 poda;" line 7, for "aimple," read "simple;" line 15, for "a," read "aa;" 

 line 17, for " B," read "bb." 



In an article on the correct name of the Milk-weed butterfly, published 

 in the " Entomologist's Record" for January 15th, Mr. F. J. Buckell comes 

 to the conclusion that it should be Afiosia archippus. 



Interesting Fossil Insects. — Dr. S. H. Scudder, from Paris, Dec. 

 2, 1893, contributes a brief article on "The Carboniferous Insects of 

 Commentry, France," to "The Americanjournalof Science" for February, 

 1894. He states that he has recently had the opportunity of seeing a 

 considerable part of a collection of fossil insects from the Upper Carbon- 

 iferous of Commentry, in Central France, and also the illustrations pre- 

 pared by M. Charles Brongniart, of the Paris Museum, to portray these 

 remains. When M. Brongniart's work appears, "our knowledge of 

 paleozoic insects will have been increased three- or four-fold at a single 

 stroke and an entirely new point of departure for the future opened. No 

 former contribution in this field can in any way compare with it, nor even 

 all former contributions taken together. Besides, it will offer such ^ 

 striking series of strange forms as cannot fail to awaken the attention of 

 the least curious. One may not enter into details, but mention may simply 

 be made of one species, regarded by M. Brongniart as one of the fore- 

 runners of the dragonflies, in which the wings have an expanse of con- 

 siderably more than two feet (or about seventy centimeters), and of which 

 several specimens are preserved. It is a veritable giant among insects." 



Transactions of American Entomological Society, vol. x.xi, 1894. 

 No. I, in press, containing the following articles: Catalogue of the Qole- 

 optera of Alaska, with synonymy and distribution, by John Hamilton, M. D. ; 

 Descriptions of new genera and species of Noctuidae, by J. B. Smith; 6 pis. 



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