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Psyche 5:379-380, 1888.

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color of its first longitudinal vein, yond the insertion of the first vein is of which is brownish yellow ; the costa be- the same color."
Entomological Notes-
Prof. F. H. Snow has been elected chancel- lor of the Kansas State University at Law- rence. Princeton College at commencement last June conferred the degree of LL. D. upon Chancellor Snow.
JCNONIA COENIA.-In a letter to Mr. S. H. Sciidder, Mr. Justus W. Folsom writes "On 30 July 1890 I saw an unmistakable speri- men in Cambridge, Mass., on flowers ofNe'p- eta cataria bordering the Charles river. The insect was apparently in perfect condi- tion."
Mr. C. J. Maynard's work on the butterflies of North America will make an octavo vol- ume of about zoopages, illustrated with many wood-cuts.
The descriptions are short and
comparative. De Wolfe, Fiske & Co. of
Boston are the publishers.
Mr. H. T. Fernald, a son of Prof. C. H.
Fernald, of the Massachusetts Agricultural College, has completed a post graduate course in biology at the Johns Hopkins University, receiving the degree of Ph. I)., and has been elected professor of zoology in the Pennsyl- vania state college. The Johns Hopkins Uni- versity Circular (No. 80 April 1890) contains his "Studies in thysanuran anatomy," a pre- liminary con~munication.
BRITISH ORTHOPTERA. The July issue of
the Entomologist's monthly magazine con- tains the conclusion of Mr. Eland Shaw's "Synopsis of British orthoptera." The list of species includes,
6 Forficulidae,
7 Blattidae,
14 Acrididae,
10 Locustidae and
5 Gryllidae, a total of 42 species. of
which 3, AnisolaSis maritima, Ph~weroftera falcata and Oecanthzu$elZmens are included with some doubt. The synopsis was com-
menced in the number for August 1889, and altogether fills a little over 50 pages. NEUROPTERA OF IRELAND. In his cata-
logue of the neuroptera of Ireland (Proc. & Trans. nat. hist. soc. Glasgow, 1890, n. s. v. 2, p. 259-292) Mr. James J. F. X. King gives the following comparative summary of the genera and species of neuroptera occurring in Ireland, Great Britain and Belgium.
Psocidae. . . . , .
Perlidae . . . . . .
Epherneridae . . .
Odonata . , . , . .
Planipennia . . . .
Trichoptera. . . .
Total . . . . .
1 Ireland. 1 ^/^ 11 Belgium.
TERMITES INJURIOUS TO GROWING TREES.
-Mr. Henry Tryon mentions (Queensland
Department of agriculture, Report on insect and fungus pests, No. I, p. 228-229) that complaints concerning injuries to growing trees by termites are common in the western and northern parts of the colony. The ter- mites find their way into the tree through some accidental opening or weak spot; fre- quently they start at the collar of the tree or just at the surface of the ground and thence work upwards.
Mr. Tryon does not identify the species; he states that all kinds of shade and fruit trees are attacked except those belonging to the orange family. In Florida termites fre- quently injure orange trees though old and well established trees are little liable to their attacks.




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FOOD-PLANT OF CARPOCAPSA SALTITANS.
-The food-plant of this tortricid, the larva of which is the cause of the so-called "Mexi- can Jumping seeds," has been a matter of con- siderable doubt. At a meeting of the nxt- ural history society of Glasgow, held 26 March 1889 (Proc. & trans., 1889, n. s. v. 3, p. 26 Proc. ) Mr. A. Somerville showed speci- mens of Cay$oca'psa saltitam Westw., bred from the seed vessels of Coiligttaja odor~yera. This plant, one of the euphorbiaceae, is a native of Chili, and was first described by Molina (History of Chili, English ed., v. I, p. 291). Hooker (Bot. misc., 1830, v. I, p. 142, pi. 40) also describes and figures the species and mentions that plants introduced into greenhouses in Scotland thrive well. In Chilian Colliguaja it is called "pichroa" and from early times has been used medicin- ally. The moth was originally described by Westwood (Proc. Ashmolean soc. Oxford,
1857, v. 3, p. 137-138: Trans. ent. SOC. Lon- don, n. s., v. 5, p. 27, Proc,
for 7 June 1858)
from specimens bred from seed received
from Tassic, Mexico (cf. Trans. ent. soc. London, 11. s., v. 4, p. go, Proc. for 5 October 1857 and op. cit., n. s., v. 5, p. 8, Proc. for I March 18.5s. See also Gardener's chronicle 12 November 1859, p. 909). Westwood
' gives the habitat a-s "Larva in seminibus plantae Peruvianae Calliguaja dictae, quae motu saltatorio mire progrediuntur." Sub- sequently the species was described by
Lucas as Ca~$oca$sa dehaisiana (see Ann. soc. ent. France, 1858, s. 3, v. 6, p. TO. 33,41- 44, Bull ; ibid, 18.59, s. 3, v. 7, p. 561-566 : C. R. acad. sci. April 1858, v. 46, p. 685-689: Rev. et. mag. zool., April 1858, v. 10, p. 171- 177 : ibid, November 1858, p. 470-484, pi. 16 : L'lnstitut, 1858, v. 26, p. 127-128). Riley (Trans. acad. sci. St. Louis, 1876, v. 3, p. 190-191, Proc.) mentions, on the au- thority of Mr. G. W. Barnes of San Diego, Cal., that the plant is called Yerba de flecha and Colliguaja by the Mexicans, and in the Proc. U. S. nat. mus., 1883, v. 5, p. 632-631; states also on the authority of Mr. Barnes 'that the region of Mamos in Sonora is the only place where the plant grows."
REVISION OF THE MANTIDAE.
Prof. J. 0.
Westwood's recently issued work on the man- tidae entitled "Revisio insectorurn familiae Mantidarum, specibus novis ant minus cogni- tis descriptis et delineatis" consists of a syn- onymic'al and bibliographical list of the species. an appendix with descriptions of six new genera and one hundred and eight new or little known species, a bibliography of the family, an alphabetical index of the genera, species and synomyms, a page of corrections and additions and three pages explanatory of the fourteen lithographic plates. One hundred and eight species are figured.
In
the list Prof. Westwood recognizes six-
teen groups, 154 genera and 645 species. There are however some duplications in the list and a few additional names are given in the addenda. The Palaearctic region has
twen ty-two genera and sixty-seven species ; five of the genera are strictly confined to this region. The Nearctic region is especially poor in species, there being but ten in the list and of these Stagomantis dimidiata is a dimorphic form of 5. carolina. Of the six genera none are peculiar to the region. The species are,
102. Gonastista grisea Fabr. N. A~ner.
123. Oligonyxuhleri Stal. La.
125. scudderi Sauss. Geo ?
128. gratninis Scudd. Fla.
132. Thesprotia baculina Bates. St. Johns' Bluff, E. Fla.
163. Mantis wheeleri Thomas. Colorado.
355. Stagomantis carolina Linn. N. Amer. 111. Car. Mex.
356. dimidiata Burm. Amer. Pa.
to Buenos Ayres.
3.59- minor Scudd. Neb.
607. Pseudovates chlorophaea Blanch. U. S. The Neotropical region is very rich in
species, about 175 being listed. There are twenty-nine genera exclusively confined to this region.
The Australian region with 64
species has but six peculiar genera. The Oriental region has 165 species and thirty genera not found in any other region and the Ethiopian region with 168 species has the largest number of peculiar genera, namely thirty-two.




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