4l8 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Nov., '14 



Notes and News. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL GLEANINGS FROM ALL QUARTERS 

 OF THE GLOBE. 



The Collection of the Late G. W. Kirkaldy. 



The collection of the late G. W. Kirkaldy has come into my hands. 

 From letters to me it would appear that there is some loaned material 

 contained therein. If the lenders will communicate with me, I shall 

 return whatever of this loaned material may still be in existence. — 

 J. R. DE LA Torre Bceno, 14 Dusenbury Place, White Plains, New 

 York. 



Changes of Address. 



J. E. Hallinen from Cooperton, Kiowa Co., Oklahoma, to Interlaken 

 School, Rolling Prairie, Indiana. 



Fordyce Grinnell, Jr., to Southwest Museum, Marmion Way and 

 Avenue 46, Los Angeles, California. 



W. R. McConnell from Greenwood, Mississippi, to Hagerstown, 

 Maryland. 



J. Percy Baumberger from 791 Buena Vista Avenue, San Francisco, 

 Calif., to Bussey Institution, Forest Hills, Boston, Mass. (where he 

 is taking graduate work in Entomology). 



H. A. Horton from AlcPherson, Kansas, to Turner, Oregon. 



Victor E. Shelford to Department of Zoology, University of Illinois, 

 Urbana, Illinois. 



Henry L. Viereck to California State Insectary, Commission of 

 Horticulture, Sacramento, California. 



Richard F. Pearsall to Allaben, Ulster Co., New York. 



Cimex pipistrelli Jenyns in North America? (Hemip. Heter.) 



In Entomological News for May, 1914, I notice an article on page 

 230, by Mr. J. R. de la Torre Bueno, regarding certain European 

 Heteroptera whose occurrences in North America are questioned. 

 Among the species listed is Cimex pipistrelli Jenyns. 



Several years ago a Silver-haired Bat. Lasionycteris noctivagans 

 (LeConte), taken at Lincoln, Nebraska, came into my hands, and 

 from it I secured a specimen of a Cimex which I identified as pipi- 

 strelli. This specimen I compared later with another, labeled C. pipi- 

 strelli, which was loaned by Prof. C. P. Gillette, of Fort Collins. Col- 

 orado, and which proved to l)e conspccific with mine. Both of these 

 agreed well with the descriptions of the species in question given by 

 Professor Herbert Osborn, on pages 162 and 163 of Bulletin 5 of the 

 U S. Bureau of Entomology, which descriptions include a copy of 

 the original one by Jenyns. It is possible that these descriptions are 



