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292 PS 2-CHE. [ JUIY, 1892.
lined, nearly continuously, with orange
scales. It starts on the costa, about 4mm. from apex, runs slightly obliquely inwards to vein 5, then curves sharply outward and
turns, running parallel to external margin to its junction with the internal margin, where it becomes obscure. It is outwardly produced on veins 3 and 4. In the other
specimen, this line lacks most of the orange scales, and is very obscure, its course being hardly discernible. Terminal intervenular spots very slight, consisting of four or five very small black scales, not contiguous. Hind wings white, without silvery luster, the intervenular spots larger than on fore wings, smoky black. Below, the wings are white; terminal dots repeated, enlarged. Expanse 46 mm. Two 2 2, El Paso,
Texas.
Kindly presented to me by Prof. J. J,
Rivers of the University of California.
I have drawn up the following table to
separate the species of Cerura : -
I. Primaries crossed by about eight angularly undulate black lines. Secondaries black - mztltiscrz'ĺ´t>t Riley. Secondaries white.
Lines continuous - scitiscri'pfa Walker. Lines broken - var. candida Lintner.
$ a. Primaries crossed at basal third by a broad gray band, which may be broken or diffuse or even entirely obsolete.
Primaries dark cinereous-cinwea Walker.
Primaries pale cinereous.
A row of dots in median space -var. cbreoides Dyar. Three dentate lines in median space.
Band with defined edges and a few orange scales - occidentalis Lintner. Band of uniform tint, and without orange scales - modesta Hudson. Primaries white.
Transverse band indistinct, though perhaps broken. Six black spots in an ellipse on disk-borealis Boisduval. Indistinct dentate lines on disk.
Band broad --scolofendrina Boisduval.
Band narrow or broken - albicoma Strecker. Transverse band faint or obsolete, rarely distinct. Black markings much reduced, often largely absent, but not diffuse. Transverse band faint or absent-ĺ´parado Behr. Transverse band distinct-- var. Cacida Dyar. Black markings very diffuse, irrorate, size large - meridional's Dyar. PERSONAL MOTES : -American entomolo-
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Prof. C. H. Tyler Townsend of the New
gists will be pleased to hear that the mathe- Mexico College of Agriculture at Las Cruces, matical physical faculty of Heidelberg has started on a field trip by wagon from University has conferred the degree of there to the Grand Cafion of the Colorado, Doctor philosophiae naturalis (honoris via Flagstaff. Prof. -Wooton, of the same causa) upon Baron Charles Robert von College, and two students accompany him, Osten Sacken. and they expect to be away two months.



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They have arranged to meet Prof. Tourney of the University of Arizona, and his party, consisting of men from the Agricultural De- partment in Washington, who start by wagon from Tucson, at Flagstaff about the first of July. They will then go on to the Grand
Canon together, remaining in companythree or four weeks, and returning by way of the eastern boundary of Arizona. The object of both parties is the collection of insects and plants.
Dr. W. J. Holland of Pittsburg sailed for Europe June 29 and during the summer will prosecute some entomological studies in the museums of London and Paris.
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES. - 11.
BY SAMUEL HEXSHAW.
BIOLOGIA CENTRALI-AMERICANA. - COL-
EOPTERA. Vol. I. By Henry Walter Bates.
gen. sp:
Cicindelidae, 1881, pt. 13-14, p. 1-18;
1883, pt. 27, p. 256; 1884, pt. 31,
p. 257-261. 8 85
Carabidae, 1881, pt. 14, p. 19-40; 1882, pt. 15-19, p. 41-152; 1883, pt. 21-
22,25, 27, p. 153-255; 1884, pt. 31-
32, 34, p. 261-299.
144 999
Species of the following genera are fig- ured : -
Cicindelidae. - Cicindela, I, 13.
Ctenos-
toma, I. Odontocheila, I, 13. Oxycheila, I. Oxygonia, I. Pseudoxycl~eila, I, Tet- racha, I.
Carabidae. - Abaris, 4. Adrimus, 4.
Agra, 12. Allotriopus, 4, Amara, 4. Ana- trichis, 3. Anchomenus, 4. Ancistro-
glossus, 7. Anillus, 6. Anisodactylus, 3. Anisotarsus, 3. Apenes, 7, 8, 13. Apristus, 8. Ardistomis, 2. Arthrostictus, 3. Aspasi- ola, 8. Aspidoglossa, 2. Axinopalpus, 8. Barysomus, 3. Bembidium, 6. Brachinus,
7. Calathus, 4. Calleida, 9, 13. Calo-
phaena, 6. Calosoma, 2. Carabus, 13. Cas- nonia, 6, 13. Catapiesis, 4. Catascopus, 7. Celia, 4. Chlaenius, 3, 13. Clivina, 2.
Clopodes, 5, 13. Coptodera, 7. Cratocera, 4. Cryptobatis, 8. Curtonotus, 4. *Cyr.
tolaus, 5. Diaphorus, 6, 13 Diploharpus' 6. Discoderus, 3. Dromius, 8. Ega, 6.
*Elliptoleus, 4. Euchroa, 4. Euproctus, 8 Eurycoleus, 7. Evarthrus, 14. Galerita, 6, 7. Gallerucidia, 9. Glyptolenus, 5, 13-
Helluomorpha, 7. Hyboptera, 8. Hypher,
pes, 4. *Ithytolus, 13. Lachnophorus, 6. Lebia, 10, 11, 12. Lelis, 7. Leptotrachelus 6. Lia, 12, Loricera, 2. Loxandrus, 4, 13 Loxopeza, 10. Menidius, 8. Micragra, 6
*Mioptachys, 6. Mizotrechus, 6. Morio, 4 Moriosomus, 4. Nemotarsus, 7. Notiobia
3, 13. Notiophilus, 2. *Ochropisus, 7
Omophron, 2. Onota, 8, 13. Onyptergyia
5. Otoglossa, 8. Pachyteles, 2, 13. Pana- gaeus, 3. Pasimachus, 2. Pelecium, 3.
*Pelmatellus, 3. Pentagonica, 9. *Per.
colaus, 4. Pericompsus, 6, 13. Perigona, 6. Pheropsophus, 7. Philopheuga, 9. Phloe-
oxena, 7. Physea, 2. Pinacodera, 7, 8.
Platynus, 4. Platysoma, 4. Polpochila 3.7 Pseudomorpha, 12. Scaphinotus, 13. Schi. zogenius, 2. Selenophorus, 3, 13. Steno- crepih, 3. Stenoglossa, 7. Stenognathus, 7. Stenomorphus, 3. Stenous, 3. Stolonis, 4, Tachys, 6. Tachyta, 6. Tetragonoderus, 7, Trechus, 6. Xystosom~is, 6.
New genera are marked (*); the figure
following the name of the genus denotes the number of the plate. Of the 85 species of Cicindelidae found in Central America 18 species occur in America north of Mexico? and of the 999 species of Carabidae from Central America, 84 are found in America north of Mexico.
CERURA MODESTA.-In my list of the
Bombyces taken at electric light in Pough- keepsie, N. Y., given not long since in
Psyche, occurs the name Cerum aquilonaris. This I now believe is an error, and the name should be Cerura mndestu Hudson. This
species was not then described, and the deter- mination was made from a single example in very poor condition taken from the lamps previous to 1890. C. aquilona~is Lintn.
(=sscolo-pendrina Boisd.) probably does not occur in New YO~~.-HARRISON G. DYAR.




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