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ceatical Society, furnished the desired information. In the meanwhile, 

 however, finding that in London they could get no information as to Lon- 

 don purple, they tried London, Canada, and finally wrote to us in Wash- 

 ington. The morals which they draw from the story are that manu- 

 facturers should advertise in the Gardeners' Chronicle^ and the popular 

 names are '' time-wasting, trouble-giving, and truth concealing." 



A LITTLE-USED BIBLIOGRAPHY. 



It is unnecessary to call the attention of entomologists to the im- 

 portance of such comprehensive bibliographies as ih^ Zoological Record^ 

 the Zoologischer Jahresbericht and the Berichte iiber die Leistungen auf 

 deni Gebiet der Entoynologie. Every working entomologist who desires to 

 keep abreast with the current literature must have them all or at least 

 one of them. It is, however, not generally known that the German 

 Botanical Record {Botaiisclier Jahresbericht) 2i\^o contains an entomo- 

 logical chapter, viz, on insect injury to plants, including galls and plant 

 deformations caused by insects. The literature on the latter subject is 

 here more fully treated than in the Zoological Eecords, but largely 

 from the botanical stand-point. The entomological editor is now the 

 well-known Hymenopterist, Prof. K. W. von Dalla Torre, of Innsbruck, 

 Austria. 



NEW GENERA AND SPECIES OP PHYCITID^. 



At the meeting of the French Entomological Society, held January 8, 

 1890, Mons. E. Ragonot presented the descriptions of the following new 

 genera and species of North American Phycitidce: {Ann. Soc. Ent. France 

 1890, Bull, des seances, pp. vii-viii) ; Ulophora n. g., type; U. groteii n. 

 sp. from North Carolina. (To this genus belongs Myelois guarinella Zeller 

 from Columbia); Glyptocera n. g., type: Ephestia co nsobrinella Ziiller ; 

 Laodamia, n. g., type: Pempelia fcecella Zeller; Lcetilia^ n. g., type: 

 Dalcruma coccidivora Com stock. 



A SOCIAL PAPILIO LARYA. 



None of our North American species of Papilio can be called social 

 in the larva state, and even when they are abundant on one particular 

 tree, e. g., tlie larvae of P. cresphontes on a young Orange tree or on 

 a Prickly Ash, they are not social since it is evident that they do not 

 care for the company of each other. It is rather strange, therefore, 

 that in a species from Cuba {Papilio oxynius Htibn.), the larvae should 

 be social. Dr. P. Gundlach, the venerable explorer of the Cuban 

 fauna, has already recorded this fact in his contributions to the Cuban 

 Entomology, but he has corroborated his former observations by recent 

 experience communicated in a letter to Mr. E. G. Honrath (Berl. Ent. 

 Zeits., V. 33, 1890, p. (8) ). It appears that the larvae of this Papilio 

 feed at night on a species of Xanthoxylum (Prickly Ash), but during 



