1896.] 



ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 



Published monthly (except July and August), in charge of the joint 

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Philadelphia, Pa., January, 1896. 



With this number the News begins another year and another 

 volume, and it has been decided by the joint PubHcation Com- 

 mittee of the American Ento.-nological Society and the Entomo- 

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During July of 1S95, I took on flowers of swamp milkweed, Asclepias 

 £amosa, and pasture thistle, two fine Hemaris thysbe, var. uniformis, in 

 two localities of Westchester County, N. Y. I also received from a col- 

 lector in Manitoba three specimens of the same variation, which seem to 

 be the prevailing form in that Northern region. — Dr. R. E. Kunze. 



