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Psyche 3:95, 1880.

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ENTOMOLOGICAL ITEMS.
SIR J: LIJBBOCIE has received specimens of Australian ants which have ft very much dis. tended abdomen, so that the ant serves as an animated honey-pot.
THE MFSTERT of Pr0~0phtom pWZctifron8 i8 solved.
Dr. Joly and Mr. Vayseiere have reared
it and find that it is an ephemerid, aa has been supposed. It lias also been supposed to be a crustacean, andagain to be the larva of a paraid beetle.
TUB MICHIGAIT State Pomologicd Society
has, at the suggestion of Prof. A. J. Cook, offered two prizes, the first of fifty dollm, and the second of twenty-five, to be given to tE>e neighborhood that shows moat skill, thoroughness, and secures best results in destroying the coddling moth. - Amw. ttatdrdtst, June WO, v. 14, p. 470. AUTHOES WHO desire to enlarge any nnmero of PSYCHE in order to accommodate longer arti- cles by them than are regularly accepted by the editors for publication, can do so at a cost of $6.50 for each 4 page0 of Long-Primer reading matter, or fraction thereof. This offer is in no way intended to extend admission to articles of a nature unsuitable for publication in PSYCHE, such as descriptions of new species, or hts of insects from special localities.
M. PAUL NOEL describes two modes of collect- ing coleoptera in the hay numero of the Faille des jeuses nuturulistes. TO capture some of the carahidae he strews earthworms, cut in email pieces, about loose rocka or boards near moist roads. After the beetles have eaten their fill, during the night, they secrete themselves under the boards or rocks, where they may be easily collected the next morning. To capture Geoh-a- pes and staphylmidae M. Noel puts the excre- ment in which they live in a tub of water, and, after thorough stirring, the beetles float to the top, while the refuse mostly sinks. The beetles can be easily, gathered from the surface with a sieve, a few grains of ether having been added to the water, if they are so numerous as to be liable to escape. This mode of collecting will tie applicable to insects not mentioned by M. Noel, e. g., to beetles in bark and fungus, by wing forced eubmersion.
SOCIETY MEETINGS.
THE REGULAR meetings of the Cambridge En- tomoEogica1 Club wilt be held at 19 Pollen St., at 7.46 p. in., on the days following :- 8 Oct. 1880.
11 Mar. 1881.
12 NOY. ,, 8 AP~. .M
10 Dee. ,, 13 May ,,
14 Jon. 1881, 10 Jnne ,,
11 Feb. ,,
3: P~CKMAN MAW, Secretary.
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THE REOWLAU meetings of the Entomological Section of the Boston Society of Natural History will be held at N. W. comer of Berkeley and Boylaton Sts., Boston, Mass., at 7.46 p.m., on the Stays following : -
27 Oct. 1880.
23 Feb. 1881.
24 NOT. ,,
2'3 Mar. ,,
22 Dec,
27 Apr. ,,
20 Jan. 1881.
SO Slay ,,
B: PICKMAX MANX, Secretary.
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THE HEGTLAR meetings of the Entomological Section of the Academy of Natural Sciences, of Philaddpllia, Pa., will be hdd at 8. W. corner of 19th and Bace Sts., on the days followine: - 8 Oct. 1880.
11 Mar. 1881.
12 XOT. ,, 8 AP~. ,,
10 Dec. ,, 13May ,,
14 ,Tan. 1881. 10 June ,,
11 Feb. ,,
JAMES H. RIDINGS, Recorder,
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THE sa.~i-.i-swtt~~ meetings of the American Entomological Society will be held at S. W. cor- ier of 10th and. Race Sts., Philadelphia, Pa., on ,he daya following : -
13 Dee. 1880.
13 June 1881.
JAMBS H. RIDING#, b d h S@c%dary.
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THB ~EOULAK monthly meetings of the Mon- real Branch of the Entomological Society of Ontario, will be held at Monti-eal, Que., Canada, >n the days following: -
7 Sept. 1880.
4 Jan.1881.
6 Oct. ,,
1 Feb. ,,
2 Nov. ,, 1 Mar. ,,
7 Dee. ,, 5 AP~. ,,
ft: H. BOWLEB, Secretary.
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PRIZE ESSAYS.
toma syqmm and of Strongilus pergracilis. See 'SICHE, v. 3, p. 59,




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