1892.] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 265 



Xiphidium fasciatunt of Serville and later writers. It is quite possible 

 that Mr. Scudder did not have typical specimens of the insect in question 

 at hand when he was working over the material upon which he based his 

 •decision of the synonymy of names. At any rate the two insects are 

 quite distinct, as the specimens before me very plainly indicate, and there- 

 fore Harris' name should be restored to the insect which originally bore it. 



In this connection it might be well for me to go a little further and cor- 

 rect an error which I fell into by accepting this synonymy as made out by 

 the author referred to above. In an article published in the " Canadian 

 Entomologist" for April, 1891, on page 70, I described as new a species 

 of Orchelimiim from Nebraska, for which I chose the WAvn^gracile. Now, 

 that this name has been ascertained to rightfully belong to another spe- 

 cies of the genus, my insect's name will necessarily have to be changed. 

 I therefore suggest for it the name delicatum, suggestive of its general 

 delicate structure and appearance. 



In my article above referred to I have also unintentionally allowed the 

 name lanceolatnm to appear where that of attenuatum should have been 

 used instead. This error occurred on account of my having described 

 one of Mr. Scudder's species as new under this name, but afterwards 

 found out my error in time to make the correction in the paper where the 

 description occurs before it was printed, but did not do so in the notes 

 which follow. — Lawrence Bruxer, Nebraska State University. 



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Hntomological LiteratiJire. 



BrLLETIN OF THE AMERICAN MuSEUM OF NATURAL HiSTORV, iv, pp. 



167, et seq., New York, 1892. — Listof types of Lepidoptera in the [Henry] 

 Edwards Collection of Insects [now in this Museum,] \V. Beutenmiiller. 

 BuLLETiNO DELLA SociETA Entomologica Italiana, xxiv, 2, Flor- 

 ence. Sept. 15, 1892. — Contributions to the dipterological fauna of the 

 province of Pavia, II, M. Bezzi. Contributions to the study of the Bren- 

 thid3e,*t xii, A. Senna. On grasshoppers in the low Florentine plain. 

 Aonidia Blanchardi n. sp. of Coccidae from the date palm of the Sahara, 

 A. Targioni Tozzetti, figs. 



