1896.] 



ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 



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Notolomus basalis Lee. 

 Laemosaccus plagiatus Fab. 

 Chalcodermus aeneus Boh. 

 Cryptorhynchus bisignatus Say. 

 Ceutorhynchus n. sp. 

 Baris umblicata Lee. 

 Centrinus picumnus Hbst. 



" rectirostris Lee. 



" concinnus Lee. 



" confjisus Boh. 

 Rhynchophorus cruentatus Fab. 

 Phoenicobius chatnaeropus Lee. 

 Cratoparis lunatus Fab. 



HYMENOPTERA. 



Hylotoma rubiginosa Beau. 

 Sphex bifoveolafds Taseh. 

 Polistes instabilis Sauss. 



' ' bellicosus 



" canadensis 



" rubiginosus St. Farg. 

 Monobia quadridens Linn. 

 Vespa Carolina Drii. 

 Osmia faceta Cress. 

 Xylocopa virginica Dru. 

 Bombus americanorum Fab. 

 Sceliphron cementarius 



caeruleum 



(To be continued.) 



Newspaper Entomology in relation to the Department of Agriculture. 

 — As he stepped out of the door of the Agriculture Building. Secretaiy 

 Morton pointed to a small brick structure to the east, "That's where we 

 keep our insects," he said, "and no one need laugh at the collection. I 

 regard it as fine an array of bugs as any on earth. Yes sir," (remarked the 

 Secretary, while his eye twinkled, for, be it known, the Secretary doesn't 

 think m_uch of bug investigations) " I've got a bug in there that cost the 

 government $20,000; he doesn't look it, but he did. It's a fact. One day 

 an outfit of scientists started in pursuit of this bug. They ranged all over 

 the hemisphere and stuck to his trail like bloodhounds. They ransacked 

 North America all the way from the Isthmus to Alaska. After most re- 

 markable adventures by flood and field, they treed the bug and took him 

 prisoner. • He was then brought captive to Washington, and he's right 

 there now in that brick house, the highest-priced bug on earth. A round- 

 up of the total expense of that one bug hunt came to over |2o,oco, but 

 we got the bug. There's nothing like science," remarked the Secretary. 

 — Washington Post. 



An ant fifteen years old. — Sir John Lubbock, the naturalist, has 

 been experimenting to find out how long the common ant would live if 

 kept out of harm's way. On Aug. 8, 1888, an ant which had been thus 

 kept and tenderly cared for died at the age of fifteen years, which is the 

 greatest age any species of insect has yet been known to attain. Another 

 individual of the same species of ant {Formiea fusea) lived to the ad- 

 vanced age of thirteen years, and the queen of another kind {Lasius 

 niger) laid fertile eggs after she had passed the age of nine years. — Sei- 

 entifie Atneriean. 



I would like to change the name of the species described by me in 

 Ent. News, 1896, p. 215, as Tropidia nigricornis to Tropidia montana. 

 I find ihat the name nigricornis has been used by Philippi for a Chilian 

 Tropidia. — W. H. Hunter, Lincoln, Neb. 



