1899] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 247 



Notes and News. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL GLEANINGS FROM ALL QUARTERS OF THE GLOBE. 



The Directory of Amej^'ican En^^omologists is projfressing rapidly, 

 but there are still a number of persons who have thus far failetl to 

 send in their names, etc. "We feel that those who carelessly neglect 

 to send their names will greatly regrret it when the Directory ap- 

 pears. Persons desiring to insert advertisements on the cover 

 sheets will communicate with Mr. E. T. Cresson, Box 248, Philadel- 

 phia. 



On a REMARKABLE USE OF ANTS IN AsiA MiNOR. Under this 

 beading we quoted, in the News for October, 1897, page 200-1, an 

 account given by R. M. Middleton of ants being used to hold to- 

 gether the edges of incised wounds by means of their sLrongly 

 hooked and sharp mandibles. In the recently published proceed- 

 ings of the Linnean Society of London, 110th session, page 2, the 

 . name of the species in question is given by Mr. Middleton as Cata- 

 gli/phus viatica Fabr. 



Dr. Hebman Strecker has recommenced scientific literary work 

 and has recently published additions to his well known Lepidop- 

 tera Rhopaloceres and Heteroceres. Supplement No. 2, was no- 

 ticed in the September litei-ature of the News. This paper con- 

 tains descriptions of fifty new species of moths and butterflies Of 

 course such things as the insects described must be made known to 

 science, but the work would be far more valuable if the species were 

 figured as in the doctor's previous numbers of the work. He is at 

 present engaged in writing a descriptive list of the types in his 

 collection, and also has ready for the press an index to the spe- 

 cies mentioned in Kirby's Catalogue of Lepidoptera Heterocera 

 Vol. 1. These publications may be had from the author. 



A Very Rare Insect Found in Boone County Yesterday.— A 

 very irare insect was found in Boone county yesterday, says the 

 Belvidei-e, III., Northioesterner, August 17, 1899. It was found out 

 in the country and presented to C. Fred Lewis, of this city, who in 

 turn presented it to Superintendent A J. Snyder, of the North 

 Schools, who will add it to his large collection of insects. 



The little pink creature is certainly an oddity. It is an Albino 

 that out- Albinos anything often seen. Superintendent Snyder says 

 he only knows of two other specimens of this kind being found in 

 this country. One was found by him at Evanston, this State, and 

 the other was captured at Wood's Holl, Mass. , the great biological 

 center. 



