igOl] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 9 1 



On September 6, 1900, I captured a Euptoieta claudia in Bloomfield, 

 near Hartford city line. — Sidney C. Carpenter, Hartford, Conn. 



Dr. a. D. Hopkins is about completing a monograph of the genus 

 Detidroctonus, which which will make one hundred pages. Dr. Hopkins 

 is an authority on the Scolytidce from both a systematic and economic 

 standpoint. 



Mr. W. H. Ashmead, Assistant Curator of the U. S. National Museum, 

 is studying the Hymenoptera collected by Prof. Kincaid of the Harriman 

 Alaska Expedition. Before this expedition only 30 species were reported 

 from Alaska. Mr. Ashmead will include in his paper over 250 species, 

 three or four being common European species, and will be reported for 

 the first time from America. 



Captures of igoc^uly 3d, two Papilio ajax ^ ; July 4th, three 

 Papilio ajax, 2 J*, i $ (feeding on milkweed). Aug. 17th, Papilio cres- 

 phontes 9- Sept. 3d, ^llopos tanttilas ^J'. Sept. nth, Erebus Odora ^. 

 Sept. 19th, Erebus odora 9. Nov. 17th (a cold day), Protoparce cingii- 

 lata 9 (sitting on the stem of a tree). As much as I know, tantalus, cin- 

 gulata and ajax were never captured here before. They are all, with ex- 

 ception of Erebus odora 9, in good condition. — Prof. Henry Worms- 

 BACHER, Jersey City, N. J. 



AsAPHES A Synonym. — In looking over \V. H. Ashmead's " Classifica- 

 tion of the Ichneumon Flies" I came across the name Asaphesiox a genus 

 of f*teromalidce, erected by Walker in 1834. Kirby first applied the name 

 Asaphes to a genus of Elateridce in 1S37, and it should therefore be re- 

 moved from the catalogues of Coleoptera. Possibly Heinicrepidius of 

 Germar should be used in its stead, but I will leave this question to some 

 Coleopterist who has access to the requisite literature. — Frederick 

 Knab. 



While visiting a friend of mine at his work in a coal mine I was sur- 

 prised to see several moths sitting on the roof or ceiling of the mine, but 

 having no means to secure them I left them till later. On Jan. 19 I took 

 a lantern and cyanide jar and made a thorough examination of the mine, 

 and in a short time secured 25 fine, perfect specimens of Scoliopteryx 

 libatrix. Some were found as far in as 75 yards from the entrance of the 

 mine. Some were very wet, but there was not a torn or rubbed specimen 

 among them. — Fred. Marloff, Oak Station, Pa. 



" Beware the bad mosquito, 



It is a dangerous thing ; 



It carries 'round malaria. 



And it has a spotted wing. 

 "The Culex wears his whiskers long, 



Anopheles wears his short ; 



But are their voices just the same. 



When on bare legs they sport ? " 



