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Notes and. News. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL GLEANINGS FROM ALL QUARTERS 

 OF THE GLOBE. 



Limenitis Ursula var. albofasciata Newcomb (Lepid.). 

 This variety was described and figured in Psyche 14, 90, pi. 2, figs. 

 7, 8, 1907. Mr. Newcomb claims this white-banded form is not a hy- 

 brid between Ursula and arthemis, as it occurs where arthemis is un- 

 known. He gives the following localities — Staten Island, Long Island, 

 in New York; Jersey City, New Jersey; Boston, Maiden and Wol- 

 laston, in Massachusetts. A large and handsome female of the variety 

 has been captured at Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, by E. M. Cheston. 

 Arthemis has not been captured anywhere near Philadelphia. The 

 nearest place to Philadelphia where arthemis has been taken, so far as 

 I am aware, is Shady Brook, near Lopez, Sullivan County, Pennsyl- 

 vania, by Mr. Witmer Stone. I think Mr. Newcomb is correct 

 in his conjecture, that this is not a hybrid. If a female of this form is 

 captured it would be most interesting to know what the progeny would 

 be like. The form must occur rarely, as the territory of its habitat has 

 been assiduously collected over for many years. — Henry Skinner. 



A Specific Character in the Genus Trichogramma (Hymenoptera). 



In Australia I have found a native species of Trichogramma lack- 

 ing the cephalic line of discal cilia in the posterior wing, its character- 

 istic. In the Sandwich Islands occurs a native species with the three 

 lines long and complete. Other species common to Europe and North 

 America are characterized by the relative incompleteness of one or 

 more of these three lines of ciliation. On November 26, 1912, I re- 

 ceived from Russia a number of females of a species of the genus, 

 all of which lack the cephalic and caudal of the three lines, the 

 middle line complete. I have reason to think that the arrangement of 

 these cilia is one of the specific characters in the genus and that al- 

 though these specimens are otherwise like the subcosmopolitan 

 minutum of Riley, they represent a distinct species. I have, perhaps, 

 studied more species and more specimens of this genus than any other 

 hymenopterologist and yet must confess that I am still more or less 

 uncertain in regard to whether this species is distinct. But since the 

 evidence so far collected goes far to show that the minute differences 

 noted above are real and of specific value, I cannot see any other way 

 out than to consider the Russian specimens as a distinct species and 

 the same as the species {PentartJiron fasciatum) recently described 

 by Perkins from Mexico, reared from the eggs of Diatraea sacchara- 

 lis. They agree with Perkins' description except that most of the 

 specimens are immaculate, a few with a rather narrow dusk}' band 

 across the base of the abdomen and the distal fifth of the same 



