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larvae crawling, for pupation, on a wooded road. Of the fifty- 

 one which I took and which pupated, thirteen gave the moths 

 on August 22d-25th. These moths mated and their eggs 

 hatched in due time. The other pupae are alive and in good 

 condition, but seem to be waiting for another summer before 

 giving the moths, a new experience to me. 



Names of Coleoptera. — In the News of last September I cited 

 Aphanotus Lee. as a homonym of Aphanotus Lowe, but did not propose 

 a substitute. I am indebted to Dr. D. S. Jordan for the information that 

 Lowe's genus was really Ap/ianopus, and "Aphanotus" as given in the 

 Nomenclator Zoologicus, is a mistake. — T. D. A. Cockerell. 



Remedy for Mosquitoes. — A Memphis (Mo.) man has discovered 

 a new way to get rid of mosquitoes. He says to rub alum on your face 

 and hands. When the mosquito takes a bite it puckers his buzzer so it 

 can't sting. It sits down in a damp place, tries to dig the pucker loose, 

 catches its death of cold, and dies of pneumonia. — Newspaper. 



Twenty-one Million Butterflies Caught. — Belgrade, Sept. 8. — 

 Owing to the damage done to crops by butterflies, the Servian Minister 

 of the Interior offered four cents for every 500 captured. Although the 

 amount appears small, the pursuit of butterflies is profitable, as already 

 21,000,000 of them have been tendered for reward. The minister says 

 it is cheap to get rid of these millions at a cost of $4,250. — Newspaper. 



Cerceris deserta Say. — New Haven, 9» June 27, 1902 (E. J. S. 

 Moore) ; tf, August 16, 1904 (O. H. Walden). Only the J^ has hereto- 

 fore been known to science. The $ here cited differs from the tf of the 

 same place as follows : clypeus produced, the production a little wider 

 than long, nearly quadrate, planate, projecting downward and outward 

 and forming with the face an angle of about 45 , the anterior margin of 

 the projection slightly broadly produced in the middle, clypeal projection 

 with a broad transverse yellow band leaving an anterior and posterior 

 band of black about half as broad as the yellow lateral face marks, nearly 

 an obtuse angled triangle adjoining the eyes, with a rather broad black 

 space between them and the yellow clypeal mark and a narrower black 

 space between them and the insertion of the antennae ; greater part of 

 first dorsal abdominal segment covered with almost semicircular yellow 

 marks that almost attain the posterior margin of the segment along their 

 diameter and that are separated from each other along the middle line by 

 a dark line narrower than the width of the pedicellum ; dorsal abdominal 

 bands broader, venter entirely black ; coxa? and trochanters almost en- 

 tirely black, anterior and middle femora black, tipped with yellowish 

 brown, posterior femora pale and dark brown, posterior tibia- yellow, 

 with the apical third of the posterior aspect brown.— II. L. Vikkeck. 



