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cally important small family Helmidae. This additional material has 
enablec Dr. Boving to make a synoptic key to several of the typical 
Species of this fanily. 
Doctor Boving also reports the receipt fron J. P. ‘Kryger, of Den- 
mark, of 14 vials of reared Danish coleopterous larvae, most of which 
represent economic species, 
Doctor Boving reports the identification of a larva of Adetus 
subellipticus Bates, a species previously reported only from Guate- 
mala and Honduras, collected in squash roots at Nogales, Ariz., Novem- 
ber 27, 1933, by G. C. Martin (B.P.Q. Nogales No. 3746). 
L. L. Buchanan has identified as Euxenodes sp. specimens of a 
weevil sent in by Prof. J. R. Watson of Gainesville, Fla., November 
24, 1933, with a report that they are heavily infesting peppers in 
Dade County, Fla. No representatives of this tropical and subtropical 
genus have heretofore been reported from the United States, although 
there are indications that some related forms sate ey related plants | 
in Central America. 
‘Luis Martorell of Santurce, P. R., now studying at Ohio State 
University, came to Washington during Christmas week to obtain iden— 
tifications of Venezuela insects. In 1932, Mr. Martorell was teaching 
entomology in a school at Maracay, Venezuéla,dnd at that time made a 
study of the biologies of the insects of that region. He generously 
acquiesced in the retention of such specimens as were desired for 
the National collection. 7 
Foster H. Benjamin believes that he has rediscovered the moth 
Lasionycta arietis Grote in a lot of specimens sent in for identifi- 
cation: by L. P. Rockwood, Forest Grove, Oreg. The species has re- 
mained unknown to collections since 1879. 
About the first of the year Walter Sweadner of the University 
of Pittsburgh brought series of slides of genitalia of the genus 
Platysamia, including slides from hybrids, for consultation and study 
with Mr. Benjamin. With Mr. Benjanin's aid he also worked over the 
National Museum collections of this genus and of the butterfly genus 
Dryas. 
Recently Carl Heinrich received from J. ©. M. Gardner, of the 
Forest Research Institute, Dehra Dun, India, several: larvae and pupae 
of Hyblaea puera Cramer. This insect is a teak defoliator and, ac 
cording to Mr. Gardner, one of the most important forest insects of 
India. The systematic position of the family Hyblacidae had been a 
