April, '07] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. l6l 



Notes and News. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL GLEANINGS FROM ALL QUARTERS 

 OF THE GLOBE. 



Correspondents will kindly note that the address of Mr. John A. 

 Grossbeck is Agricultural Experiment Station, New Brunswick, N. J. 



I know that you know nothing. 



Others know not even this. — Socrates (revised). 



W. T. Clark, until recently connected with the Entomological Depart- 

 ment of the University of California, is now Professor of Entomology in 

 the Alabama Polytechnic Institute at Auburn. 



Additional names of persons willing to identify certain insects (see 

 Ent. News, February, p. 59, March, p. 105) : 



Charles A. Hart, Nat. Hist. Building, Univ. Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, 

 Orthoptera. 



J. Douglas Hood, Nat. Hist. Building, Univ. Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, 

 Thysanoptera. 



Dr. J. W. Folsom, Urbana, Illinois, Collembola and Thysanura. 



G. Chagnon, Box 186, Montreal, Canada, exotic Buprestidae. 



Phalangid Notes. — When in 1904 (Jour. N. Y. Ent. Soc., XIII, p. 

 253) I described Caddo glaucopis as new, I was unaware that the de- 

 scription of C. agilis Banks had been taken from immature specimens, that 

 fact being published by Mr. Banks in the same number (p. 256). Mr. 

 Banks has recently been kind enough to examine an adult specimen of 

 C. glaucopis collected by me last June at Sandford, Ontario, and reports 

 that it is the same as the adult of his C. agilis. I regret having made the 

 synonym and take this opportunity to rectify the blunder. 



I wish also to record here the capture last July at Carlton Station, 

 Orleans County, New York, of an adult male of Phalangium fongipalpis 

 Weed, which, as far as I am aware, has heretofore been known only from 

 Arkansas. — Cyrus R. Crosby, Ithaca, N. Y. 



Butterflies in Battle. — "A battle of butterflies," said the Japanese 

 Viscount firmly. 



" Impossible !" cried the lady on his right. 



" Oh," the Viscount insisted, " the thing is authenticated. It happened 

 on August 20, 1889. Tales and poems without number have been written 

 on it. 



" On the evening of August 20th two opposing armies of the butterflies 

 fought an aerial battle between Nojima and Kavasaki-Mura. The fight 

 continued till sunset, when the smaller army turned and retreated, the 

 victors pursuing it till all were lost in the rosy sunset haze. The ground 

 beneath the combat was thickly strewn with wounded and dead warriors. 



"The battle drew a thousand people. It occurred about thirty feet up 

 in the air. The spectators were amazed and horror-stricken to see these 

 gentle blue butterflies grappling and struggling furiously and silently in a 

 blue blizzard above their heads."— Newspaper. 



