256 entomological news. [December, 



Notes and News. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL GLEANINGS FROM ALL QUARTERS 

 OF THE GLOBE. 



"Sta. I," Cincinnatti, O., Oct. 3, ' 9 «. 

 Eds. News : — 



I notice in Oct. '98 number some hints to subscribers which are 



doubtless timely, viz., that the News cannot be "run on wind." This 



reminded me that it seemed quite a long while since I remitted. Please 



see if I am in your debt for the last year, or when my subscription will be 



again overdue. Always notify me when I owe anything. I don't want 



the News to die a premature death ! Charles Dury. 



Mr. R. E. Snodgrass, assistant in entomology in Leland Stanford 

 Jr. University, sailed from San Francisco on November 1st for the Galo- 

 pagos Islands. Mr. Snodgrass will spend six months on the islands col- 

 leciing insects and other animals for the entomological and zoological 

 departments of the University. Mr. Snodgrass is accompanied by Mr. 

 Edmund Heller, student in the department of zoology of the University. 



The latest pictures received for the album of the American Entomo- 

 logical Society are from Philip Nell, Phila.; Dr. A. Fenyes, Pasadena, 

 Cala.; Max Albright, Soldier's Home, Cala.; Andrew Bolter, Chicago; 

 VV. L. W. Field, Mass.; Chas. F. Goodhue Webster, N. H.; Charles 

 C. Adams, Mass.; Chas. A Blake, Phila.; C. Few Seiss, Phila.; J. A. 

 Lintner, N. York ; Wm. J. Gerhard, Phila. ; F. M. Webster, Ohio ; Otis 

 E. Barrett, Vermont. We are always pleased to receive photographs of 

 entomologists. Our collection is a remarkable one, and we desire to 

 make it as complete as possible. 



During a visit to Hinsdale, Mass., on Aug. 21st, 22nd and 23rd, I was 

 surprised to find Pieris oleracea quite abundant. They were in some 

 numbers in a turnip field, together with the common P. rapes and I 

 should judge were in the proportion of one to four or five of the latter. 

 Unfortunately most of the specimens were damaged and only a very few- 

 good ones were secured. During my collecting here, in the Connecticut 

 Valley, I have never been able to secure this species, though diligently 

 looked for year after year. According to Dr. Geo. Dimmock it was quite 

 common here before the advent of P. rapes. Scudder in his " Butterflies 

 of New England," speaks of the disappearance of P. oleracea from main- 

 localities where it was found before the introduction of P. rapae, and says 

 it is now ''confined to the less cultivated and especially the hilly districts 

 of New England." "I should be surprised to meet it elsewhere; and 

 even in the recesses of the White Mountains I have never in recent years 

 seen it at all abundant, or so common as P. rapes." Another species 

 seems also to have entirely disappeared from this region since the intro- 

 duction of P. rapes : P. protodice was regularly found here, according to 

 Dr. Dimmock and sometimes abundant about Springfield, Mass. — Fred- 

 erick Knab, Chicopee, Mass. 



