April, '07] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. l6l Notes and Ne\vs. ENTOMOLOGICAL GLEANINGS FROM ALL QUARTERS OF THE GLOBE. CORRESPONDENTS will kindly note that the address of Mr. John A. Grossbeck is Agricultural Experiment Station, New Brunswick, N. J. I know that you know nothing. Others know not even this. Socrates (revised). W. T. CLARK, until recently connected with the Entomological Depart-ment of the University of California, is now Professor of Entomology in the Alabama Polytechnic Institute at Auburn. ADDITIONAL NAMES of persons willing to identify certain insects (see ENT. NEWS, February, p. 59, March, p. 105) : Charles A. Hart, Nat. Hist. Building, Univ. Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, Orthoptera. J. Douglas Hood, Nat. Hist. Building, Univ. Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, Thysanoptera. Dr. J. W. Folsom, Urbana, Illinois, Collembola and Thysanura. G. Chagnon, Box 186, Montreal, Canada, exotic Buprestidae. PHALANGID NOTES. When in 1904 (Jour. N. Y. Ent. Soc., XIII, p. 253) I described Caddo glancopis as new, I was unaware that the de-scription of C. agilis Banks had been taken from immature specimens, that fact being published by Mr. Banks in the same number (p. 256). Mr. Banks has recently been kind enough to examine an adult specimen of C. glaucopis collected by me last June at Sandford, Ontario, and reports that it is the same as the adult of his C. agilis. I regret having made the synonym and take this opportunity to rectify the blunder. I wish also to record here the capture last July at Carlton Station, Orleans County, New York, of an adult male of Phalangium longipalpis Weed, which, as far as I am aware, has heretofore been known only from Arkansas. CYRUS R. CROSBY, Ithaca, N. Y. BUTTERFLIES IN BATTLE. "A battle of butterflies," said the Japanese Viscount firmly. " Impossible !" cried the lady on his right. " Oh," the Viscount insisted, " the thing is authenticated. It happened on August 20, 1889. Tales and poems without number have been written on it. " On the evening of August 2oth two opposing armies of the butterflies fought an aerial battle between Nojima and Kavasaki-Mura. The fight continued till sunset, when the smaller army turned and retreated, the victors pursuing it till all were lost in the rosy sunset haze. The ground beneath the combat was thickly strewn with wounded and dead warriors. "The battle drew a thousand people. It occurred about thirty feet up in the air. The spectators were amazed and horror-stricken to see these gentle blue butterflies grappling and struggling furiously and silently in a blue blizzard above their heads.'* Newspaper.
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