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October 1892.) F's i?THE. 341
thick and solid, and covered by two or three layers'of circular pieces of rose leaves. MEGACHILE SCAEVUS Say.- I find in Dr-
T. W. Harris MS. notes, in the library of the Boston Society of Natural History, the following notes on this species. "Nest
under a stone Sept. IZ, 1829.
Imago, June
and July."
MEGACHILE n. sp?, -Six cocoons were
found in blackberry stems (probably received from Mr. James Angus) in tunnels just their size.
They did not lie very near each other.
They are quite tough and thick, and are
rounded at one end and squarish at the
other. Length .40; breadth .14 inch.
MEGACHILE BREVIS Say. -Its cells are
like those of M. centuncularis, but the leaves of which they are made are more loobely
placed around the cocoon. The leaves are neither those of the rose or spiraea, and were not identified. This is a small species, with the fore tibiae simple, as are those of M. integer Say. The nest, preserved in the
Harris collection, is in the museum of the Boston Society of Natural History.
MEGACHILE INTEGER Say. -The nest, also
in the Harris collection, is scarcely distin- guishable from those of 24. centuncuZaris, though the pieces may be a little larger, and the cells a little more flattened.
Mr. T. D. A. Cockerell of Jamaica is en- gaged in an investigation upon the insects of Custer County, Colorado, with special refer- ence to the origin of the successive faunas found at different altitudes, based upon his collections while resident there. It can hardly fail to give results of considerable general in- terest.
Out of fifty-seven specimens of OfiomuZa bra+tera collected this season in New
England by Mr. A. P Morse, seven (2 f,
5 9 ) have tegmina and wings which extend to the tip of the hind femora, the ancestral form thus appearing to an unexpected degree ; of twentyeight specimens in the collection of Mr. S. H. Scudder only one (a 8) has
wings of this length.
The U. S. National museum has recently
published as a bulletin a pamphlet of about 150 pages, amply illustrated, containing ad- mirable '* Directions for collecting and pre- serving insects," by Dr. C. V. Riley ; it is excellently planned and executed, with many sensible suggestions.
A successful visit was made last July by Messrs. S. H. and G. H Scudder to the
summits of the White Mountains to piocure the eggs of Oeneis semideu. More than fifty females were captured, and about half of them sent to MI. W. H. Edwards in West
Virginia, the others placed over growing grass.
More than half of those sent to West
Virginia reached there alive and were there confined over growing plants, and from all many hundreds of eggs were obtained.
Of
one lot of over one hundred eggs laid in Cambridge, July 14, every one that was fer- tile hatched on July 26. The period may of course be longer on the mountain. Mr. G. H. Scudder found a caterpillar which had just reached the last stage feeding at midday on a blade of Carex, and it has since fed in Cambridge quite as much by day as by night. The friends and admirers of the late Mr. Henry Wslter Bates are endeavoring to raise a fund to be presented to his widow as a suitable memorial of their esteem. The first list embraced the names of nearly ninety persons, am1 å 377 has been subscribed.
Contributions may be sent to S. Wm. Silver, 3 York Gate, Regent'sPark, N. W., London, England.
An admirable and interesting illustiated account of the life-history of Hypoderma lineeta, the ox-bot of the United States, is given by Dr. C. V. Riley in the June number of insect life; Mr. Riley also contributes to the same number a highly important descrip- tion and figure of the first larval stage of Bruchus fahe, showing that it has slender and rather long thoracic legs of a peculiar



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pattern, lost with the first motilt; and he voted to species of Debis and Lethe; besides has since pointed out that the same features are found in Bruchus $isi.
Late in August Mr. A. P. Morse took a
black female of Jasoniades g-laucus at Green- wich, Conn., the first known capture of this form in New England.
The first volume of Mr. W. F. Kirby's
long promised Synonymic catalogue of
Ì€oths containing the Sphinges and Bom-
byces, has appeared. It makes a stout vol- ume of 951 pages and is carried out in the same way as his catalogue of Butterflies. It
will prove of much service.
Mr. Kirby has also issued a new edition of his Elementary text book of entomology,
but beyond brief notes about some of the insects figured and the addition of an index, it scarcely differs from the first.
The eleventh part of Moore's Lepidoptera Indica leaves the work still confined to the Satyrinae; this part is almost entirely de- the separation of wet and dry season forms in two species of Debis and the early stages of two species of Lethe there is little to interest the general reader ; but it is full of geograph- ical details, and contains, as usual, a com- plete summary of all that has been recorded of each species.
The closing pages of the second volume of Dr. Gundlach's Entotnologia Cubana have
just reached this country; they deal with the Orthoptera, from which we find that he
credits Cuba with 146 species, divided as follows : Forficulidae, 8; Blattidae, 42 ; Mantidae, 8; Phasmidae, 14; Acrididae, 20; Locustidae, 23 ; Gryllidae, 31. How different the proportional numbers are from what
would be found in any state of the Union, even Florida !
On p. 292 ofthe July number of Psyche, in line is of the table, for "indistinct" read "distinct."
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