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has recently pointed out a peculiar backward projecting lobe near 

 the base of the inner margin of the fore wing. " This lobe passes 

 beneath the hind wing, and thus the costal edge of the hind wing 

 is held between this lobe and the inner margin of the fore wing, 

 which overlies the hind wing." Only one other lepidopterous 

 family, the Micropterigidae, has a similar structure, and these two 

 Prof Comstock proposes to separate from all the other Lepid- 

 optera under the name " Jugatse," calling the others " Frenatae." 

 It is interesting to note that this " jugum" reappears in the Tri- 

 choptera, or Caddice-flies, and apparently emphasizes the sug- 

 gestion of relationship between some such type and the moths 

 in times long past. 



The larvae of Hepialidse, so far as I know them, are wood 

 borers, and quite often in the roots of trees and shrubs. They 

 also require more than one year to attain their full development, 

 and not often found. 



The moths are not common, as a rule, and most collections 

 contain very few of them. They fly at twilighi, and have received 

 the somewhat fanciful name of " Ghost-moths," from their quiet, 

 shadowy mode of flight. Sometimes they may be found during 

 the day under stone bridges, or under overhanging ledges of 

 rock, and a locality for them once discovered — they can be taken 

 year after year — sometimes in no small numbers. Some of the 

 Western species appear to be much more common than any from 

 the Atlantic coast. 



Pictures for the Album of the American Entomological So- 

 ciety have been received from D. B. Young, H. F. Bassett, George H. 

 Hudson, Herbert Osborn, Chris. H. Roberts, H. W. Wenzel, Rev. Thos. 

 W. Fyles. This is getting to be a fine and valuable collection, and we 

 wish to make it as complete as possible, and will be glad to hear from 

 those who have not already sent their photos. 



Ban's scolopacea Ger.— An unrecorded species introduced from Eu- 

 rope, first taken by the writer in June, 1885, on Chenopodium album, 

 growing rank on a lot below this city (Philadelphia). A small, prettily- 

 marked species, of which a very few specimens were captured the first 

 year, but which has steadily spread over a greater territory and can now 

 be found every season in fair quantities. The bee!les have remained un- 

 named in several of the local collections, until recently their identity was 

 established by Mr. Schwarz, of Washington; D. C, due to some e.xchanging 

 between Mr. Wenzel, of this city, Mr. Ulke and himself.— Chas. Liebeck! 



