i8 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [January, 



(May 12 and 29, and July 18) ; Snicker's Gap, Va. (July 18). 

 Type : No. 5395, U. S. Nat. Museum. 



Drosophila bnskii sp. nov. 



Head yellow, a black ocellar dot, center of upper part of occiput brown, 

 two orange yellow frontal vittae, converging anteriorly ; front bearing a few 

 short bristly hairs, the two pairs of vertical bristles placed one in front of 

 the other, three pairs of orbital bristles, the four bristles composing the 

 two anterior pairs placed transversely, the inner pair directed forward, the 

 others backward ; antennae dark brown, the first two joints yellow, the 

 third joint subequal in length to the second ; the bristle below each vibrissa 

 about two-thirds as long as the latter ; mouth parts yellow ; thorax yellow, 

 opaque, yellowish gray pruinose, mesonotum marked with seven black 

 vittae of which the median one is forked posteriorly, pleura marked with 

 three black vittae, the upper two sometimes united anteriorly ; scutelliim 

 yellow, the rniddle of the upper side next the base brown ; abdomen black, 

 a median vitta, the first segment largely, front edge of the second, and the 

 outer front angles of the others, yellow ; legs and halteres yellow ; wings 

 hyaline, unmarked, costa extending to apex of tiie fourth vein, last section 

 of fifth vein almost as long as the penultimate section of the fourth, last 

 section of fourth vein twice as long as the preceding section ; length, 1.5 

 to 2 mm. Twenty specimens. 



//a^.— Washington, D. C. (T. Pergande, D. W. Coquillett); 

 Charlestown, W. Va. (A. Busck); Algonquin, 111. (Dr. W. A. 

 Nason). 



Type: No. 5396, U. S Museum. 



Pieris occidentalis. — Last July, in Las Vegas, N. M., my little son Martin, 

 found a number of larvae which I took to be those of Pieris protodice, 

 living upon Cleome serrulata (family Capparidaceae). As the food-plant 

 was a new one I requested him to rear the butterflies, so that we might be 

 sure of the species. This he did, and when they emerged (3 c?. ^ 9) it 

 turned out that they were not protodice but occidentalis. One specimen 

 of a dipterous parasite was also bred ; this has been referred by Mr. Co- 

 quillett to Chcetogcedia crebra V. d. W. — T. D. A. Cockerell. 



Correction.— In Ent. News' Vol. X, Dec, 1899, pp. 288-289, I re- 

 corded the occurrence in New York of what I then supposed was the 

 Mantid known as Stagmomantis Carolina. This year {1900) I have bred 

 the insect from eggs laid at Rochester, N. Y., and Mr. Scudder finds that 

 it is the common praying Mantis of Europe {Mantis religiosa), which has 

 never before been recorded in America. I have just published a full ac- 

 count of this interesting introduction of a new beneficial insect in Bulletin 

 185 of the Cornell Experiment Station, a copy of which I will gladly send 

 to any one interested.— M. V. Slingerland. 



