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PHILADELPHIA, Pa., NOVEMBER, 1908. 
The following letter has been received: 
“A strange animal has made its appearance in the 
Department of the City Hall. The head of the Bureau thinks 
a large spider has changed by metamorphosis into a large green 
moth. I know this to be impossible, but I am anxious that an 
expert shall investigate the matter, as I am no ,authority on 
such subjects. The moth is undoubtedly a very strange one, 
and is entirely unfamiliar to me. 
“Tf you can call and look at it, I think you will be interested.” 
There are so many things to know these days that consider- 
able discrimination should be used in making a selection for 
school children. They are probably taught some things less 
useful than an elementary knowledge of Entomology and other 
branches of natural history. There may be some excuse for 
the grown people of to-day who know nothing about the trans- 
formations of insects, but the children of the present time 
should be better taught. The large spider mentioned in the 
letter was Argiope riparia and the moth Pholus pandorus. 
TRIGONALYS AND RoPRONIA IN VircIn1A.—Three species of Trigon- 
alide I have taken near Falls Church, Va. Lycogaster pullata at Glen- 
carlyn, Va., 4 May, and Falls Church, 29 May, Lycogaster costalis at 
Great Falls, Va., 25 June, and 31 July. Trigonalys pulchellus, Great 
Falls, Va., 12 and 25 June. Schulz in the Trigonalide of the Genera 
Insectorum puts costalis as a synonym of pulchellus. This is entirely 
wrong; both were described from males, and costalis has the male ven- 
tral structure as in Lycogaster, just as originally stated by Cresson. 
Last winter I left a peculiar Hymenopteron with Mr. Crawford, to- 
gether with some bees. Later he identified it as Ropronia, probably R. 
garmani, This season I have taken two R. garmani, Falls Church, 7 
June, and Great Falls, Va., 25 June; and one R. ashmeadi at Falls 
Church, 5 July—NatHan BANKS, 
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