= 08) _ ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 261 
SUMUMMUIY inthe northera ‘Dicdlities where they are 
nd is an interesting one, and has been discussed pro and con 
or man: years, 
vi ebus odoratus (L) has been taken 150 miles at sea, off the 
st of Brazil, as stated by Walker in his Catalogue of Lepi- 
dopt ra Heterocera, Part XIV, Noctuide, page 1290, 1858, 
ad in this case there is little doubt that the insect in question 
tea pth pede atieme nate tbt Ana 
1 P. Thomas, in an article entitled “Ballooning as a 
> published in Appleton’s Magazine for November, 1906, 
aan Stes ft Se re A tory 
mosquitos, and other insects.” We are further in- 
; form Sti eaper cxfrente of sic, even in strong winds, 
__ while the balloon is carried along at a rate of 50 or 75 miles an 
oo ) OF even more, everything seems as quiet to the occupants 
¢ : car as would be the case in a calm. Under such cir- 
nces, may not moths, even as large as Erebus odoratus, 
pt in the strong upper currents of the air from the 
Islands where they breed, as far north as Orono, a dis- 
Ghee r4oo modes? Such a flight in a 50 mile breeze 
— 
The ia Aphis of the pS vers 
rufomaculata n. sp. 
. By H. F. Witson, Urbana, Illinois. 
eo cee 
___ red spots which seem always to be present upon the abdomens 
of the viviparous females. 
. viviparous.— 9 . 
_ General color green, head somewhat dusky on vertex, eyes light 
thorax green, abdomen green with about 2 to 4 little 
dots—eyes of the embryos—showing on both the dorsal and ventral 
7 a slight yellow discoloration at bases of cornicles. The 
— anter are light green at the base shading to blackish at the distal 
_ ends, femora pale green, tibiae very pale green, dusky at the distal 
