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Notes 'and. Nev^rss. 



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Pictures for the album of the American Entomological Society have 

 been received from D. S. Kellicott, J. B. Lembert and W. R. Reinicke. 



Was it a Lightning Bug ? — It is reported from the Creek neighbor- 

 hood that Miss Maggie Steel, while sewing one day last week, undertook 

 to knock a small bug from the garment on which she was sewing when it 

 caught on the end of her finger and burrowed into it, reaching almost the 

 second joint before she succeeded in stopping it, which she did by press- 

 ing the needle against the finger and pushing the little insect backward. 

 It made its way under the skin of the finger just as a mole goes under 

 the surface of the ground, and she describes the sensation as very painful. 

 No one knew what the insect was, and it seems to have been the first of 

 its kind. — Lancaster Ledger, S. C. 



The Formation of New Genera in the animal kingdom does not at 

 all require long periods. It can rather occur quite suddenly, from one 

 generation to the other, as in an instance observed and communicated by 

 the naturalist, Moritz Wagner. 



In the year 1S70 a Swiss collector brought a number of pupae of the 

 Texan butterfly, Saturnia luna (having the name from the lunulate spots 

 on the four wings) to Switzerland. The butterflies which, in May, 1871, 

 emerged from the cocoons which had remained during the Winter in 

 Switzerland, were of the true Texan form. Some of these imagoes de- 

 posited several hundred of .fecundated eggs. 



The little larvae appeared a few weeks later, and were already at their 

 first shedding the skin of a much yellower color than those in Texas. 

 They were fed in the house with leaves of an European plant belongmg 

 to the Texan species, and ate voraciously, pupated end of June, and the 

 imagoes emerged in the first half of August. These imagoes were very 

 diflferent from the Texan form, not alone in color, but also in form and 

 markings so much, that they would have been considered as an entirely 

 different species if their pedigree had not been known. All the thirty-five 



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