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took one which had caught a butterfly, Synchlce lacmia var. 

 crocale. The butterfly is the parent of those spiny caterpillars 

 which so abound on sunflowers about Las Cruces. 



Proctacanthns milbertii Macq. 



A large fly like the last. On August 14th one was found which 

 had captured a wasp {Bembex sp.). Dr. Riley has recorded 

 this species as an enemy of the honey bee. 



Promachns princeps Will. 



Another Asilid fly which Mr. Johnson says was only known 

 hitherto from the State of Washington. One was found at Las 

 Cruces on July 8th, it had captured a wasp ( Odynerus annulatus). 



COLLECTING IN PROSPECT PARK, BROOKLYN, L. I. 



By H. G. White. 



Living close to this beautiful park I have been there almost 

 every day for the past two years in search of specimens of Le- 

 pidoptera for my collection. I have searched almost every nook 

 and corner, and have been well rewarded for my trouble. Al- 

 though being situated within a large city, there are more things 

 to be taken there than many collectors may think, and from my 

 own observations few collectors seem to care to visit it, for within 

 the two years I have only seen three others besides myself. It 

 may interest some of the News readers to know what is to be 

 found within its grounds. Upon February 28th of this year I 

 found some Vanessa antiopa flying in the woods where they had 

 been hibernating this Winter. March 3d I took some Pieris 

 rap(e; April 12th, two Grapta comma; May ist took the first 

 Colias philodice; May 6th, one Papilio tiirnus, which is early for 

 this locality; May 7th one Eudamus tityrus. The Zeuzera py- 

 rina or cesculi is doing its awful work within the park, and all over 

 our cities of New York and Brooklyn. Every tree within the 

 park is attacked with it, except the resinous ones. It seems to 

 me a great pity that our government does not take hold of this 

 matter, for it is a most serious one indeed. Then again, there is 

 a field for an entomologist in Prospect Park, as in Central Park, 

 New York; some of the most beautiful trees within its limits are 

 ruined completely. Last season I managed to take good speci- 

 mens of the following: 



