348 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [July, ’o8 
over-sheen within the white band. The same portion of ar- 
themits is invariably a duller brownish, without the iridescence 
common to both on the outer portion of the wings. 
R. P. Dow, Recording Secretary. 
The Brooklyn Entomological Society met May 7, 1908 at 
55 Stuyvesant Avenue, Brooklyn, Vice-president Graef in the 
chair and eleven members present. 
The discussion of the previous month on Basilarchia was 
renewed. Mr, Frank Watson has a fine series from Niagara 
Falls including one specimen squarely between astyanax and 
albofasciata. Both Mr. Franck and Mr. Doll have undoubted 
hybrids between astyanax and disippus. From Flatbush in 
1907 chrysalids from willows were generally astyanax. Very 
few disippus were seen in the region that year. Chrysalids 
from wild cherry were all astyanax. . 
Mr Schott captured at Huntington, L. I. Anatrichus minutus, 
a beetle normally living in the Gulf states. He took at Jamaica, 
L. I. Ips confluentus, a species not recorded in Smith’s New 
Jersey list. 
Mr. Bather reported on a trip of three months through 
Mexico and touching at Havana and Miami, Florida. In the 
Mexican mountains there was an absolute dearth of insects 
of all orders, not even aphids on the rose tips. This was at- 
tributed to the extreme dry weather. A day’s stay at Orizaba, 
Mexico, yielded good results. An excellent box-ful contain- 
ing no duplicates came from a single sequestered spot in the 
grounds of Morro Castle, Havana. Collecting was good in 
Miami in March. He had an aberrant Eumaeus atala from 
Miami in which canary yellow replaced the normally bright 
red abdomen and spots on the under side of the wings. 
R. P. Dow, Recording Secretary. 
OBITUARY. 
FRIEDRICH WILHELM KONOW 
Friedrich Wilhelm Konow of Teschendorf, Germany, the 
distinguished scholar and Hymenopterist, who worked speci- 
ally in the Tenthredinoidea, died March 18th last. An 
account of his life is published in the May number of the 
Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift. 
