1896.] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 247 



Mr. Hopkins stated that in 1S95 the insect was a pest on wheat, oats and 

 corn in one of the Virginia Valleys ; but that he had had no complaints 

 of it this year. Dr. Bethune said that the insect had been found in some 

 numbers at Grimsby, Ontario ; but was not troublesome. Mr. Howard 

 said that he had some complaints of the insect from Virginia ; but that 

 these occurred during a period of wet weather, and he replied to the com- 

 plainants that if their weather was anything like that at Washington, they 

 need not fear the further spread of the insect or serious injury from them. 

 No further complaints were received and he assumed that his predictions 

 were verified. 



(To be continued.) 



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It may interest the readers of j'our valued Entomological News, to 

 hear that I obtained a pairing of Attacics cecropia (^ with Satitrnia pyri 

 (the largest European moth) $ ; but eggs proved to be barren, which was 

 quite a disappointment, as I expected to raise a new interfaunal hybrid. — 

 Herman Aich, Elberfeld, Germany. 



Mexican Aleurodes. — Mr. Maskell has lately published as new two 

 species of Aleurodes from Mexico, which I sent him (Tr. N. Z. Inst., vol. 

 xxviii.) As he has not cited all the particulars regarding the discovery 

 of these insects I desire now to state that A. nicotiance was found at 

 Guanajuato, by Dr. Alfred Duges ; while A. erigerontis was taken by 

 myself in 1893 at Escalon. — T. D. A. Cockerell. 



In the Annales Belgique, 1896, vii, the following North American 

 Buprestidae are described by C. H. Kerremans :— 



Taphrocerus texanns, p. 312, this is T. agriloides Crotch. 



T. cylindrirollis, p. 312, is T. Icevicollis Lee. 



Pachyschelus politiis, p. 322, is P. Icevigatus Say. 



Brachys horni, p. 324, is B. ceruginosa Gory.— George H. Horn. 



