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Psyche 7:138, 1894.

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138 PSYCHE. [June-Sept, 1894.
Cocoon.-Composed of little bits of leaf or other material. The larva builds up two
parallel walls and unites them at the top. Cocoon elliptical, flat at base, size '7x24 mm. The anterior end is a little higher and more pointed than the posterior.
Larvae on aercus macroca~ykz at Platts-
burgh, N. Y.
ENTOMOLOGICAL NOTES
A recent number of the Proc. Boston soc. nat. hist. contains a critical study and revision of the New England species of Spharagemon by Mr. A. P. Morse. The article is based on a large amount of material for the most part personally collected in various parts of the territory considered and upon examina- tion of the type specimens whenever prac- ticable, and is illustrated with drawings of the principal structural characteristics pre- sented by several species of the genus.
Three species are recognized as occurring in New England; another from Staten Id.
will probably be found in Connecticut. - The latter is described as new (S. ocidatum) and has probably been confused with S. col- lare- Of the former, one (S. saxafile) is new, having been hitherto confused with
the remaining two (S. aequale and bollt). 5. balteatum is reduced to a synonym, and the New England form of aeguale is further distinguished by a trinomial (scuddert) for reasons which our space withholds. The
cut, on a smaller scale, and its explanation are given herewith. '
We are glad to comment] and call the
attention of entomologists to the author's practice of examining an abundance of
material and distributing examples as one likely to materially advance the science by reducing errors and synonyms to a mini-
mum.
The death is announced of Edward Norton
at the age of 70, at his home in Farmington, Conn. Mr. Norton was one of the first natu- ralists of this country to devote himselfto the exclusive study of a single family of Hymen- optera, choosing the Tenthredinidae. It is many years, however, since he took an active part in entomological pursuits. It may not be known to many that he is said to have been the first importer of Guernsey cattle to this country and that he established the first creamery in New England.
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In an extended notice of the first volume of Kolbe's new Introduction to Entomology in a recent number of the Entomologische nach- richten, Verhoeff declares it to be for ento- mologists the most important literary work of the last decade.
Under the insufficient and over modest title 'On certain grass-eating insects," Mr. E. P. Felt of Cornell University publishes a synop- sis of the species of Crambus found about Ithaca, N. Y., treating the subject both systematically and economically, with excep- tionally full accounts of the life histories of those little known moths and abundant and very varied illustiations. 26 species are 3 included. It is an excellent exposition of the Cornell method.
Fig-. 1,2,3, S. aequale scildde~C. Fig. 4,5, S. saxn- tile. Fig. 6, 7, 5. belli. Fig. S, S. oculatum. Fig. 9, H'
has again
S. collars, a diameters.
.changed his address to Las Cruces, N. Mex.



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