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A CORRECTION. — Mr. Dyar's note in January News concerning a moth 

 of which he speaks as Ceruridia Slossottii Pack., is misleading, and re- 

 quires correction. There is as yet no such insect as Ceruridia Slossonii 

 Pack. A moth in my collection has a label bearing, in my own hand- 

 writing, the above name proposed for it by Dr. A. S. Packard. No de- 

 scription of this moth has been published. I stated these facts when I 

 showed the insect to Mr. Dyar, but he has apparently forgotten them. 



Annie Trumbull Slosson. 



Writing in regard to a recent article in the News by Prof. J. B. Smith 

 on American Noctuidae, Mr. J. W. Tutt, of London, England, says: "The 

 value of your photographic plates is unquestionable, and it enables us 

 who cannot see the type specimens in your collections to form an idea of 

 the moths' you describe. With regard to fig. 5, in the first row, the spe- 

 cies is undoubtedly our European Hydrcecia niicacea Esp., and the de- 

 scription suits our species exactly. But this is a most variable species in 

 England, and varies from pale yellowish with very faint markings through 

 banded specimens to dark brown {vide British Noctuae and their varieties, 

 vol. i, pp. 64-66), some of the specimens being bright rosy-red; in fact, 

 the species is called ' the rosy rustic' In naming new species, care should 

 be taken to refer to such well-known European species as this undoubt- 

 edly is." 



Bee Stings and Rheumatism. — I some time ago came across a few 

 articles having reference to bee stings as a cure for rheumatism. The 

 subject had passed from my mind until just recently, when a particular 

 friend of mine, who has suflfered from this annoying complaint, was stating 

 his case to me I at once remembered what I had read, and told him about 

 it. His curiosity being aroused, he asked to see the letters, and after 

 careful perusal of the same he came to my apiary to try the effect of the 

 remedy. My friend is an ex-police sergeant, who has suffered acutely for 

 years from rheumatism, and passed through the hands of several medical 

 men, and spent seasons at various convalescent homes, undergoing va- 



