1893] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 157 



Notes and Ne^ws. 



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This number contains forty pages. 



See change of wording in regard to Identification of Insects for sub- 

 scribers page 160. 



Pictures for the Album of the American Entomological So- 

 ciety have been received from Prof. Edwin Alonzo Popenoe, Rev. John 

 Davis, Ernest J. Oslar, Prof G. H. French, Charles Robertson, Dr. W. 

 G. Dietz, Dr. C. V. Riley, Prof Clarence M. Weed, T. D. A. Cockerell 

 and Prof J. W. Tourney. 



We have lately had a very pleasant visit from Mr. Chas. Robertson, 

 of Carlinville, 111., who has been looking over the part of the collection 

 of the Society in which he is interested. He has been studying for some 

 years the relationship existing between flowers and insects. 



Kunckel d' Herculais maintains that the two tints of the locust, rose 

 and yellow, are merely indicative of different ages, not of two varieties 

 as generally supposed. The interest of his observation lies in his conclu- 

 sions that the change of color is associated with the histolysis and histo- 

 genesis which accompany the moults. The considerable dependence of 

 their color on the presence of light was also brought out by breeding 

 some in darkness. — {Coinpies Rendus, cxiv. 240.) 



Some few years ago I sent to Mr. B. Neumoegen, of New York, a num- 

 ber of .£". itnpersalis, all dark, showing no light markings ''as in var. 

 didymay I believe he afterwards named them as a new variety, which 

 is, no doubt, correct, as I looked through the South Kensington Museum, 

 in London, and they haven't it. Those I sent were all males ; this season 

 I have taken quite a number, and amongst them is one 9 , thereby estab- 

 lishing the fact that the variety exists in both sexes. I would say to those 

 who have not seen this beautiful and striking variety, that the entire moth 

 is a rufous-brown, or, to make it plain, is the color of the dark markings 

 of the typical moth without any of the light markings. — J. T. Mason,. 

 Houston, Texas. 



