14 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [January 



Notes and. News. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL GLEANINGS FROM ALL QUARTERS OF THE GLOBE. 



The New Peach Mite in Ohio.— Apropos to the stat^raef't of 

 Prof. W- G. Johnson, in the December, 1898, nunnber of Entomo- 

 logical News, regarding" the occurrence of this pest in Mar5'land, 

 I will say 'that in August, 1898, my assistant, Mr. C. W. Mally 

 while inspecting two nurseries in this State, found the injury so 

 characteristically described by Prof. Johnson, but ws*s not able at 

 the time to determine the nature of the depredator, and for want 

 of time the matter was not followed further. In one very extensive 

 nursery the damage was quite serious, the greater portion of a block 

 of upwards of 500,000 young peach trees showing more or less of the 

 eflPects of the inseci. I may add that the two affected nurseries were 

 located near to or south of lat. 40 degrees north. — F. M. Webster. 



The new synonymic catalogue of North American buttei'flies, 

 by Dr. Henry Skinner, is now ready. See advertisement on cover. 



Owing to the fact that we have placed The News with another 

 printing establishment, not familiar with scientific work, it is un- 

 avoidably late. We will depend on our printer to do belter in the 

 future. Editors. 



MoRDELLiD-a: Notes.— Having occasion to overhaul my Mordel- 

 lidae brings a few memoranda that may be of interest. From Pres- 

 cott, Arizona. I have examples of a species of Pentaria, which 

 seems undoubtedly to be decolor Champ., as described in " Bio- 

 logia," vol. iv, pt. 2. p. 256. 



A specimen from Vera Cruz, which seems to fit the description of 

 Teiitaria brevicornis Champ., I cannot distinguish from my num- 

 erous specimens of ftiscula Lee from Colo, and N. Mex. ; the possi- 

 bility of such identity is spoken of by Mr. Champion (p. 254), but 

 my one specimen does not enable me to do more than partially con- 

 firm this suspicion. A fine example of Tomoxia hilaris Say, is 

 among my (Vera Cruz) specimens. 



Mr. Champion gives one distinction (p. 272) between Mordella 

 melofna Germ, and scntellaris Fab. which is not mentioned by Smith 

 in his Mordellidae, vol. 10, Trans. Am. Enl. Soc, p. 82, /. e., mc- 

 loena " differs from scutellaris by its short clavate antennae." I find 

 it much the easiest character for sepai-ating species. Mordella ser- 

 raZ^Say, seems rather a northern species— I have one pair from Sal- 

 isbury, Vt., another pair from the subalpine region of Mt. Wash- 

 ington, N. H., and one specimen from Brookline, Mass. 



Among the material sent me by Mr, Wickham from Brownsville, 

 Texas (289), is a single specimen of an interesting new species of 

 Jforf/eZ^«, which seems to come near teftmipes Champ.; also (298) 

 one example of a minute new species of MordelUstena near ^>/fZ/ca- 

 ria Champ. — Fred. C. Bow ditch. 



