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cellular and median areas. Fringes dark gray, with black accentuation 

 at veins; a dark shade along interior margin. Secondaries uniformly 

 grayish white with black marginal tints as far as anal angle; a faint dark 

 gray discal dot. Below: Primaries dark gray with whitish shades from 

 basal area to anterior margin; black tints from base along costa; discal 

 dot not as prominent as above. Secondaries grayish white, powdered 

 with black along costa; prominent black discal dots. Legs covered with 

 light gray hair; tibiae black, with white spots at joints. Abdomen light 

 gray, with a sparse covering of hair. E.xpanse of wings 29 mm. Length 

 of body 10 mm. 



Hab. — Nueces River, S. W. Texas. Types, two males; coll. 

 B. Neumoegen. 



Female unknown so far. 



A very interesting and rare Cossid, the smallest of our fauna. 

 It comes close to Hypopta Hiib. , but is a smaller, more slenderly- 

 built insect with primaries as well drawn out as in Holcocerus 

 Stand. It resembles, superficially, a noctuid. 



" Mr. Ali3.\rda's Collection of Pal/earctic Neuroptera. — It was 

 with great regret I heard some time since from my valued friend and cor- 

 respondent, Mr. H. Albarda, of Leeuwarden, that failing eyesight had 

 caused him to abandon Entomolog>'. His rich and representative collec- 

 tion of Palaearctic Neuroptera was offered by him to the Leyden Museum 

 on condition that it be kept separate and not incorporated in the general 

 collection, and the offer has been eagerly accepted by the authorities. At 

 the same time the Dutch Entomological Society received the donation of 

 such books and pamphlets from his library as the Society did not already- 

 possess. — R. McLachlan, Lewisham, London : October, 1892" (Ent. Mo. 

 Mag. November, 1892, p. 290). Mr. Albarda recently published an ex- 

 cellent paper on the family Rhaphididae, in the " Tijdschrift voor Ento- 

 mologie." noticed in the Literature Dep't of the News for N^ember. 



Strength of the Ant. — As I was recently walking along a rough 

 brick pavement, I noticed a small ant dragging the dead body of a large 

 house-fly across the walk. During the few minutes that I was watching, 

 it pulled the fly two or three feet to the edge of the pavement and then 

 up a bank of rough earth, which had an inclination of at least fifteen de- 

 grees, for a distance of six or more inches, when I caught the ant with its 

 burden in an envelope and took them to the laboratory to measure and 

 weigh them. The outside measures of the ant were 1x4 millimeters, 

 and its weight was 1.4 milligrams; that of the fly 4.5 x 12 millimeters, and 

 its weight 36.3 milligrams (these weighings were made upon a fine ana- 

 lytical balance). So we note that the ant was dragging up a steep hill a 

 body of over twenty-five times its own weight, and apparently not specially 

 fatigued thereby.— F. P. Dunnington, in " Popular Science News.'' 



