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quite a number of names will fall into the second line. It has not been 

 the general custom to put date of capture on the pins of individual speci- 

 mens and on the papers of specimens in envelopes, but it should be done 

 in all cases, as it may help solve one of the problems in relation to allied 

 species and varieties. 



In our June issue of last year we had occasion to acknowledge from a 

 kind friend and patron of science, the receipt of a very generous contri- 

 bution in aid of the publication of Entomological News. It was owing 

 to this help that we were enabled to make such a gratifying improvement 

 in the journal for 1892. And now, since our last issue, we are in receipt 

 of another liberal gift from the same gentleman, for the same purpose. 

 It is just such timely acts of generosity as these, that not only make us 

 feel in a great measure compensated for the time and labor gratuitously 

 given, but they encourage us to work the harder to make this the best 

 and most popular entomological journal in the world. 



Pictures for the Albu.m of the American Entomological So- 

 ciety have been received from Dr. Geo. H. Horn (who also presented a 

 fine picture of Dr. J. L. LeConte), Prof F. L. Harvey, W. H. Danby, D. 

 W. Coquillett, John D. Evans, Wm. Kayser. Lee B. Walton. W. Knaus, 

 Nathan Banks, William J. Fox, Dr. Otto Staudinger and A. Bangs Haas 

 (Blasewitz, Dresden, Germany), H. F. Wickham, and pictures of F. 

 Schafhirt, W. F. Wenzel and Henry Feldman, presented by Mr. H. W. 

 Wenzel. It should be understood that we want the pictures oi all persons 

 interested in entotno/ogy. 



Hvdrcecia medi.\lis.— Mr. Tutt's note in the February number of the 

 News illustrates how difficult it is, even by a picture, to give an adequate 

 representation of an insect. I do not much wonder at the opinion that 

 we had to do with a specimen or form of the European H. micacece, for 

 there is a certain amount of superficial resemblance, which is misleading. 

 But I assure Mr. Tutt that we have a really very different species, as I 

 hope to prove when the full description is published. I have seen a con- 

 siderable number of the European species, and some years ago made a 

 rather careful comparison with our H. obliqiia Harv., which is very much 

 nearer to micacece than the species which I have just described; indeed, 

 I am' not at all sure that it will not prove the same in the event, but this 

 needs further study and more material than I have at my command at 

 present. I am by no means as ready as I once was, to admit that" there 

 are any great number of species common to Europe and to N. America. 



John B. Smith. 



