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as "of no economic importance." Nevertheless the man who 

 shoiild discover a spur on the hind leg of a minute "bug," the 

 most insignificant creature on the faunal list, and who should find 

 out what its function is in the creature's existence, why evolved, 

 has accomplished more to be proud of than his fellow who has 

 correctly named and aesthetically spread 5,000 specimens. 



The most insignificant insect is born, grows, works, eats, 

 fears, mates, plays and dies. The human being does no more. 

 His senses are often less keen than the insects. His intellect is 

 merely greater. Providence does not protect one more than the 

 other. The discovery and description of any instinct, habit, 

 peculiarity of structure, phase of life or death, in tne least of 

 living creatures, stands high in the category of desiderata for 

 addition to the sum total of human knowledge. 



Notes and Records. 



Northern records for Pholus vitis L. — A perfect male of this hand- 

 some southern hawkmoth was taken at an electric light on Staten 

 Island, September 16, 1912, by Mr. 0. Fulda. It was not long 

 ago recorded from East New York. — Charles L. Pollard. 



Calpodes ethlius on Long Island. — In the summer of 1911 several 

 specimens of this skipper were captured at Yaphank by members 

 of the Brooklyn Entomological Society; and in the fall the larvae 

 were found until late in the season feeding on the cannas culti- 

 vated in Floral Park. Many of the latter were successfully 

 bred by Mr. Doll. There have been no local records of the 

 butterfly during the past summer, however, so it is evident that 

 the pupae were unable to survive the winter. — R. P. Dow. 



A rare Hepialid. — Specimens of Sthenopis argenteomacidatiis 

 from the Ramapo Mountains, N. Y., were recently shown at 

 the Society. Mr. Doll took over one hundred specimens of 

 this insect about thirty years ago in a swamp at Middle Village, 

 L. I., but there has been no record of a local capture for many 

 years. A search may be profitably made. It has a character- 

 istic slow and undulating flight, strongly resembHng that of 

 some neuropterous insects. — R. P. Dow. 



