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Notes and News. 



ENTOMOLOtilCAL GLEANINGS FROM ALL QUARTEKS OF THE GLOBE. 



Dr. Herman Streckek has completed his valuable index to the 

 species in K irby's Lepidopteia Heterocera, Vol. 1, and is now pre- 

 paring a list of the 417 types in his collection. This will be Supple- 

 ment J II lo his Lepidc.ptera Rhop. et Heterocera. These publica- 

 tions may be obtained from the author. 



Mr. Lancaster Thomas has returned from his annual trip to 

 Cranberry, N. C, and reports that the collecting was unusually 

 poor owing to the very dry weather during the summer. 



Dr. William Barnes was fairly successful in his collecting trip 

 to Southern Arizona. 



Prof. H. A. Pilsbry collected a lot of interesting Cychrus at 

 Clingman's Dome, Blount Co., Tenn. They are now in the fine col- 

 lection of Mr. H W. Wenzel, of Philadelphia. 



I NOTICE in the report of the American Entomological Society, 

 held June 22d, that you i-eporied Melitaoea harrtsiisiS having been 

 taken at Lopez, Sullivan county. Pa. I took one good specimen of 

 same, June 15th, at Plymouth. Luzerne county. Pa., but saw no 

 others. This is the first specimen I have taken in my four years 

 collecting in this vicinity and have not heard of its being taken by 

 anyone else around here. 



I took one good fresh specimen of Euptoieta claudia in Septem- 

 ber, 1898 and another in September, 1899. Alfred E. Lister. 



Notes on Exyra Rolandiana.— While looking through some old 

 volumes of Psyche recently I noticed in II., p 39, the description 

 and an account of the habits of the larva of Exyra rolandiana by 

 Mr. Thaxter. The species is quite common in Durham wherever 

 its food plant (*S'arrace/uV/)flouri8hes,and the larvae have been found 

 not in the leaves as described by Mr. Thaxter, but within the flow- 

 ers and buds the last of May and first of June. The imago appears 

 the last of June and first of July, and has been observed resting in 

 the leaves of its food plant. 



Mr. Thaxter says that the larva is "delicateand diflicultto rear" 

 butsuch was not my experience with those taken well along to- 

 ward maturity. About half a dozen were collected the last week 

 in May and placed in wide mouthed vials with a piece ef the ovary 

 of the pitcher plant flower, securely plugged with cotton and left 

 to themselves. Most of them completel)' finished the food that was 

 given them and one or two were dwarfed for lack of more, but 

 every one of the lot produced a perfect imago. \ would recom- 

 mend collectors who have access to a swamp in which pitcher plant 



