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the Lepidoptera, I do not know how many other rare things there were, 

 but among the moths I found three nearly perfect specimens of Phragma- 

 tobia assimilans \a.r.franconia Slosson, two males and one female. Vou 

 may be sure that I was quite content to have the rest of the specimens 

 not quite so rare, although there were^ several other good things in the 

 box. I do not know when he collected them, but from the other species 

 sent it must have been early in the season. I thought it a little strange 

 that he should take three oi francottia and none of the more common 

 rubicosa. — Chas. F. Goodhue. 



Transactions American Entomological Society, vol. xix (1892), pp. 

 257-304 inclusive, have been printed since our November issue, and con- 

 tain the following papers: A preliminary synopsis of the Harvest-Spiders 

 (Phalangidse) of New Hampshire, by C. M. Weed, five plates. Notes on 

 North American Tachinidse, with descriptions of new species, Paper VII, 

 and the North American genera of Calyptrate Muscidae, Papers III. I\' 

 and V, by C. H. Tyler Townsend. A synoptical arrangement of the 

 genera of North American Jassidae, by E. P. Van Duzee. 



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