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Notes and. News. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL GLEANINGS FROM ALL QUARTERS 

 OF THE GLOBE. 



Mrs. Slosson has taken the female of Thecla telea Hew. at Miami, Fla. 



Anthocharis genutia has been plentiful this season at Westville, N. 

 J., which Is only a few miles from Philadelphia. 



Prof. James Fletcher expects to take some fine things this season in 

 the Rocky Mountains of Canada. We wish him great success. 



Pamphila metea evidently has quite a wide distribution. Dr. Scudder 

 mentions various places in New England where it is found, and also cites 

 New York and Wisconsin. Mr. Edwards, in addition to the other lo- 

 calities, gives Texas and Colorado. The Colorado locality is based on 

 the female described by Reakirt under the name riding sii. I have it 

 from Missouri, and recently the Philadelphia collectors have found it in 

 abundance at Clementon, N. J., where it is found on barren sandy patches, 

 alighting on the sand and on the sand myrtle. The full life-history may 

 be worked out this year. Syneda graphica is also very abundant at 

 Clementon. — Henrv Skinner. 



Mr. Wm. J. Gerhard, of the Academy of Natural Sciences Philadel- 

 phia, is studying our material in the Hesperidae of the world and arrang- 

 ing them according to the most recent classification. He is not quite 

 sure whether genera or species are in excess, and when he gets through 

 he may have a genus for every species, as is the case in our Eastern Pa- 

 pilios according to one of our esteemed New England friends. According 

 to the " Biologia" we must put {Eudamus) py lades and bathyllus in dif- 

 ferent genera on the strength of the male sexual character, the costal 

 fold, which is so common in the family. This question of genera, to say 

 the least, is a very interesting one, and no man can tell where it may end. 

 — H. S. 



Yesterday, when I was driving out in the country on professional 

 business, a Pamphila sat down on the back of my left hand and began to 

 feed in the same manner as is told by Mr. J. M. Dodge in Ent. News, 

 vol. ix, p. 89. At first I thought it was drinking the sweat, but then I 

 remarked that it curved its abdomen a little between the legs and ejected 

 a fluid, upon which it fed. The wings were kept together all the time, 

 and I was not able to identify it surely, but I believe it was a P. hobomok. 



Last Winter I found a cocoon of Cecropia on a hazel bush, and as it 

 felt empty I opened it and found an Indian corn in it. How did it get 

 there? Birds?.— C. Hoeg, Decorah, Iowa. 



Bug steals a diamond pin. — A monster bug robbed Jesse P. Van 

 Doozer, of Evanston, of a $200 diamond scarf-pin Saturday night. Mr. 

 Van Doozer is the famous former captain and coach of the Northwestern 



