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His later entomological publications were chiefly of a popu- 

 lar nature. Such were Tenants of an Old Farm; leaves from 

 the note book of a naturalist (1885) : Old Farm Fairies. A 

 Summer Campaign in Brownieland against King Cob-weaver's 

 pixies, A Story for Young People (1895); Nature's Crafts- 

 men, Popidar Studies of Ants and Other Insects (1907) ; and 

 Ant Communities and Hozv They are Governed, A Study in 

 Natural Civics (1909), in which the social activities of ants and 

 of men are compared. 



Washington and Jefferson College, his alma mater, gave 

 him its LL.D. ; Lafayette College made him D.D., and hon- 

 orary Sc.D., and he was an honorary member of the British 

 Association for the Advancement of Science. 



Dr. McCook married in 1861, Emma C. Herter, who died in 

 1897. Two children, Mrs. William Slade Clark and Captain 

 Paul McCook, of the United States Army, survive their par- 

 ents. In 1899, Dr. McCook married Mrs. E. D. S. Abbey. — 

 P. P. C. 



A new Papilio from Floridat and one from Mexico 



(Lepid.). 

 By W. Schaus, London, England. 



Papilio ponceana sp. n. 



$, Palpi black ringed with ochreous before tip. Head, collar, and 

 thorax black brown, with lateral yellow lines on frons continuing across 

 vertex, collar, and along patagia dorsally. Abdomen dorsally black, 

 laterally and underneath yellow. 



Wings black brown, markings yellow. Fore wings : a narrow yellow 

 fascia from close beyond cell and vein 5 to middle of inner margin ; a 

 spot above 5 more outset, and a large elongated spot above it contain- 

 ing a fuscous brown spot anteriorly; lunular spots above and below 

 vein 8, oblique towards apex; a spot close to cell above 7, surmounted 

 by short costal streaks ; subterminal small semilunular spots, very small 

 above 6, and in a nearly straight Hne ; terminal spots between the veins. 



Hind wings : the medial fascia broader, irrorated with brown on 

 inner margin; large subterminal spots, the one on costa inset; the spot 

 between 4 and 5 projecting inwardly, those between 2 and 4 deeply 



