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Notes and. Ne^ws. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL GLEANINGS FROM ALL QUARTERS 

 OF THE GLOBE. 



A picture for the album of the American Entomological Society has 

 been received from Andrew Bolter. 



An ant which Sir John Lubbock, the English naturalist, has kept for 

 observation many years died recently, whereupon the " Indian Mirror" 

 published an obituary notice of his aunt. 



In the collection of the late Dr. Geo. H. Horn there was a specimen of 

 the large moth {Pseudosphynx tetrio Linn.) which bore the following 

 label: "Large moth reached ship 'Earnmoor' Saturday, Feb. nth, 1888, 

 at sea about two hundred miles from shore." — Henry Skinner. 



Whereas, we have learned with infinite sorrow and regret of the death 

 of Dr. George H. Horn, of Philadelphia. 



Resolved, By the Newark Entomological Society, in special meeting, 

 November 28, that Entomological Science, particularly in Coleoptera, 

 has sustained a most serious loss, that the Society has lost a well-wisher, 

 and many of its members a personal friend. 



Resolved, Also that this expression of our sorrow be spread upon the 

 minutes of the Society, that a copy be sent to Entomological News 

 for publication, and that another copy be sent to the personal representa- 

 tives of the deceased. 



(Signed) John Angelman, -j 



Ed. A. Bischoff, \ Committee. 

 John B. Smith, ) 



Note on Agapostemon texanus. — Mr. Robertson, in his recent ex- 

 cellent account of the common species of Agapostemon, gives to texanus 

 a very wide range — from the Atlantic to the Pacific. It seems desirable 

 to ask how uniform it is throughout this territory. I have before me six 

 examples from Washington State (one from Olympia, June 29; five from 

 Pasco, May 25), all collected by Mr. T. Kincaid; and while they agree 

 with texanus in almost every particular (including the punctures of the 

 mesothorax), they are very easily separated from typical texanus (as 

 found in New Mexico) by the much more finely sculptured base of the 

 metathorax. The radiating wrinkles, which in true texanns are very 

 large and distinct, are much smaller, more numerous, and less separated 

 from one another. There is even a feebly indicated triangular enclosure. 

 As the difference indicated is quite constant in a series, I propose to call 

 the Washington form A. subtilior n. sp. or subsp. Mr. Kincaid sent with 

 the A. subtilior eighteen examples of A. radiatus, all from Pasco. Mr. 

 Robertson gives that species as west to Dakota only. The Pasco exam- 

 ples are larger and bluer than the Illinois form of radiatus. — T. D. A. 

 Cockerell, Mesilla, New Mex. 



