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Psyche 7:231-232, 1894.

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~pril 1~95.1 PS KHE. 231
(Berl. Ent. Z. 1887).
I would recom-
mend them, at the same time, to have
my type specimen of 7'. trich@tera
in the Mus. Comp. ZooL in Cam-
bridge, Mass., carefully examined in
order to ascertain whether my descrip-
tion is correct. I wrote and published
the Western Diptera in a great hurry
between my return from California in
the autumn of 1876 and my final
departure for Europe in the spring of
1877, and I would in this case not
trust my own statement without further
verification.
Heidelberg, Germany,
Fcb. 12, 189;;.
FAILURE TO EMERGE OF ACTIAS
LUNA.
In looking over a box of CoCUoIIh to-day, I came upon five, of A. limn, which felt suspiciously light I cut them open, and
in each I found an undeveloped imago
which had crawled out of the pupa-skin
and had not been able to force its way out of the cocoon.
Each one lay with its head against the
anal end of the empty pupa-skin, and the cocoon was filled with "fluff" made by the scales of the moth nibbed off in its struggle to get free,
Four days ago I received a large cocoon
of A. ZUM, sent by mail, and one end of
which was so wet that I expected the moth to emerge at any time. Instcad, the wet
spot dried, and two days later I cut open the cocoon, and found the moth with head and thorax out of the pupa-skin, and appar- ently dead. Taking the pupa out of the
cocoon I began to cut away the skin, when the imago moved feebly. By the time I
had removed all the pupa-skin the moth
was sufficiently revived to cling to nay finger, and was placed in a cage, where it hung for twelve hours without expanding
the wings at all.
The next morning, however, the wings
were fully spread, and the moth is now the largest $ I have ever seen. The pupa-
skin was perfectly dry, and there ha& not been one drop of meconium discharged.
In the five cocoons first mentioned there was no rneconium, and no evi~lence of the ends having been moistened.
This may be an experience common to
entomologists, but it is entirely new to me. Curoiine G. So&.
Brookline, Mass.,
June a, i8g-i.
Dr. S. W. Williston of Lawrence, Kansas, has in press a work, entirely rewritten, on the classification and structure of North Ameri- can Diptera. It will contain tables of all the North American genera, including those from Central America and the West Indies, together with descriptions of larvae, habits, anatomy, etc. It will appear next autumn. In its
he has had the assistance
of Messrs. Aldrich, Townsend, Snow and
Johnson, who haw kindly prepared or revised the tables of the families with which they are best acquainted.
In a recent and excellently illustrated
memoir (Musaeum Dzicduszyckian~~m, iv-
Leniberg) on the insect fauna of the petro- leum beds of Boroslow, Galicia, Lemnicki describes no less that seventy-six Colcoptera, of which nineteen are regarded as identical with living European insects, while the
others find their nearest allies in boreal Europe, Asia and America. As only four
species are identical with those found by FIach at Hijsbach, Bavaria, in beds looked upon as Lower Pleistocene by Flach, and
since the HSsbach Coleoptera as a whole
show fur icss boreal affinities than lhose of Galiciii, Lemnicki thinks the Hi3sbach fauna must be considered Middle Pleistocene and the Galician Lower Pleistocene.




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