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Notes and. News. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL GLEANINGS FROM ALL QUARTERS 

 OP THE GLOBE. 



The Association of Official Entomologists of the Cotton Belt will meet 

 at Baton Rouge, Louisiana, November 13th and 14th. Members of the 

 Association of Economic Entomologists, as well as others who may be 

 interested in entomological work in the South are cordially invited to 

 attend and participate in the meetings. Interesting and valuable papers 

 will be read. 



An Appeal for Instant Aid. — The last installment of manuscript of 

 the Odonate part of the Biologia Centrali- Americana will be forwarded 

 to the printer within a few weeks. The immediate loan of any Odonata 

 from any point in Mexico or Central America will be greatly appreciated. 

 Please send such material to me at the Academy of Natural Sciences, 

 Logan Square, Philadelphia, Pa. I will pay the cost of transportation. — 

 Philip P. Calvert. 



Mydas Fulvifrons Illiger. — Mydas fulvifrons at last has a female. 

 The male has been known since 1802, when Illiger described it from 

 Georgia. In later years it was also recorded from Florida. It hap- 

 pened that Osten Sacken described a female Mydas from Texas in 

 1874, under the name of chrysostoma. Mr. Chas. W. Johnson has 

 taken both "species" at Sea Isle City, N. J., and Anglesea, N. J. The 

 male of chrysostoma, as well as the female of fulvifrons, travelled 

 incognito until now, and alas, the secret is out. Mydas fulvifrons S 

 and M. chrysostoma ? are one. I have taken them in coitu at Stone 

 Harbor, N. J., July 29th, 1906, and Miss M. chrysostoma should hence- 

 forth be Mrs. Mydas fulvifrons. — Erich Daecke. 



Rhopalocera in the Vicinity of Pt. Arena, Mendocino County, 

 Cal. — While camping in a canyon in Mendocino County, near Pt. 

 Arena, during the months of July and August, I had a good chance to 

 collect most of the species of Rhopalocera found there. This canyon is 

 about a hundred miles northwest of San Francisco. The stream which 

 runs through it empties directly into the Pacific. Along the coast the 

 country is rather level, becoming hilly and mountainous farther up 

 stream. Most of this coast land is cultivated, and there are almost no 

 trees except a few pines on the hilltops. It was among these pines, 

 where wild violets were plentiful, that Brenthis epithore was found. 



The canyon proper begins about four miles back from the ocean. Its 

 sides were covered with underbrush, including several species of Rubus 

 and many ferns. Redwoods, tan-bark oaks (Quercus densiflora), alders, 

 bay trees, elders, wild lilacs (Ceanothus thyrsiilorus) , etc., were found 

 here. At one spot in the canyon there is an abandoned tie-camp, 



