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ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



[June, '20 



A Rare Pamphlet (Hym., Lep., Neur.) 



The Museum of Comparative Zoology has a copy of a reprint of an 

 article which was to have been published in the Transactions of the Chicago 

 Academy in 1870. But the big fire came and destroyed the stock, and 

 few, possibly only this one, copy of the reprint was sent out. It is en- 

 titled "Notice of Hymenoptera and Nocturnal Lepidoptera collected in 

 Alaska by W. H. Dall, Director Sci. Corps, W. U. T. Exp., by Dr. A. S. 

 Packard, with a List of Neuroptera by P. R. Uhler and Dr. H. A. Hagen." 

 E.xtract from Trans. Chicago Acad. Sci., vol. II, pp. 25-32, pi. 2. 1870. 



In this article Packard describes Vespa tripunctata (p. 26), Vespa alas- 

 censis (p. 27), Phragmatobia dallii (p. 29) and Gastropacha alascensis (p. 29). 

 Uhler describes Perla (Nephelion) dallii (p. 30) and Hagen Cryptothrix 

 insularis (p. 31). Various described species are recorded. The plate 

 figures Bombus frigidus, B. occidentalis, B. flavifrons, B. lacustris, B. kirby- 

 ellus, B. nivalis, Vespa norvegtca, V. arenaria, V. tripunctata, V. alascensis, 

 Platarctia borealis, Arctia caja, and Phragmatobia dallii. The new species 

 have never been recorded in any catalogue, nor the paper referred to. 

 Whether it can be considered as "published" depends, I suppose, on the 

 existence of other copies. The "W. U. T. Exp." is the Western Union 

 Telegraph Co. Expedition, and it was the expedition upon which Kenni- 

 cott lost his life. Reports on the birds were published the preceding year, 

 and Scudder noted the butterflies in Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., in 1869. — 

 Nathan Banks, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, Mass. 



Synonymy of Some Species of Thecla (Lepid.). 



The following synonymy will be of interest to Lepidopterists. The 

 first name has priority. 



Thecla thordesca Hew. — zenaida Dyar. 

 elsa Hew. — primnozd Dyar. 

 " cambes G. & S. — syvix Dyar. 

 " philinna Hew. — greppa Dyar. 

 " uterkudante Dr. — elimes Dyar. 

 " bianca Moschl. — ostriniis Druce. 

 " proba G. & S. — climicles Dyar. 

 " xeneta Hew. — devia Moschl. 

 " atrox Butl. — gentilla Schs. 

 " canus Druce. — bunnirae Dyar. 

 " amphrade Schs. — posetta Dyar. 

 " autoclea Hew. — callides Dyar. 

 " serapio G. & S. — mesca Dyar. 9 . 

 " sabinus Fldr. — promissa Moschl. 

 " pan Drury. — tirrhaea Moschl. 

 " tella Schs. — castrena Jones. ? . 

 W. ScHAUS, U. S. National Museum, Washington, D. C. 



