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ence in collecting and classifying specimens. Only the barest necessi- 

 ties of life are taken along. 



All the many thousand specimens in the University of Kansas col- 

 lection have not been the direct result of Dr. Snow's expeditions. Some 

 have been obtained by trading duplicate specimens. Especially is this 

 true in the beetle collection. In one of his earliest expeditions in Logan 

 County in the summer of 1877, Dr. Snow made a genuine find, a giant 

 tiger beetle. Atnblycheila cylindrif or mis, .then an extremely rare species 

 and valued at $25. Early in the morning was the best time to capture 

 these valuable specimens, so every day the entire party would be up 

 before sunrise and off to the haunts of the tiger beetle at the foot of 

 some cliffs nearby. Down on their hands and knees they would go and 

 the active search for the $25 specimens would begin. 



In all a thousand specimens were obtained of this valuable beetle, 

 and it was by trading these that the foundation of the beetle collection 

 was made. Twenty-five dollars' worth of the insects for each giant tiger 

 beetle soon caused the collection to swell wonderfully in proportions, 

 but in time the market became flooded with the beetles and their 

 value depreciated accordingly. 



Names of Coleoptera. — I am greatly indebted to Mr. E. Bergroth for 

 some corrections to my paper in the September News. Helopeltis 

 Horn, is Helobata Bergroth, Deutsche Ent. Zeitschr., 1888, p. 222, and 

 our species will be Helobata larvalis. Ino. Lap. is Inoplectus Smith, 

 1851. Our species will be Inoplectus reclusus (Lee.) and /. immundus 

 (Reit). Drapetes Redt. stands as Drapetes Meg. "is not a published 

 name." Wollastoniella was used by Reuter in Hemiptera in 1884 (it is 

 not in the Index Zoologicus) ; W ollastonia Horn may become Para- 

 hornia n. n. ; type Parahornia quercicola (Boh.). 



A few misprints are confusing enough to be worth correcting : p. 240, 

 for Diplochelia read Diplocheila; p. 244, for Amblychelia read Atnbly- 

 cheila; for month, read Montf. ; for 2 and 9 read Q. and G. (Quoy and 

 Gaimard). — T. D. A. Cockerell. 



A Few Corrections. — "On some new species of Geometrid Moths 

 from Arizona and California," described by Rev. George W. Taylor in 

 the June issue of the Entomological News, Vol. xvii, No. 6, the follow- 

 ing errors in spelling should be corrected: Page 188, description I, 

 should read Melemaea instead of Melemaca virgata, according to the 

 original description by Mr. Hulst in the "Trans Am. Ent. Soc.," xxiii, 

 September, 1896, page 340. 



Description No. 5, page 190, should read Euemera instead of 

 Enemcra simularia, as both Mr. Dyar and Mr. Smith are incorrect 

 according to the original descriptions by Mr. Hulst in the "Trans. Am. 

 Ent. Soc," Vol. xxiii, page 368. — Louis W. Swett. 



