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290 PSYCHE.
ENTOMOLOGICAL ITEMS. HABITS OF bom6yiius. The December number of the 4'Awerican entomiog'isf"
DR. C. V, RILEY was reappointed Ento-
gives further details about the preying of the mologist of the United States Department of larva of hnbylius on locust-eggs. The
Agriculture, 6 July 1381, and entered upon species of the fly was a~certained by breeding, his duties I Aug. 1881.
nearly at, the same time. by Mr. Lemmon in CApTA'~ H o L D ~ ~ p who has
re-
California, and by the able editor of the moved to Cincinnati from Marietta, Ohio, hen-can eniont6tog,st, M~. C. V, Riley.
has been an enthusiastic collector of spiders n,_ ,n,n(ira nhteined bv M~. ~ j i ~ ~ : )arts of the United States, showing
h effect environment has in modif?-
The collection is supplemented by
- "- --
ysimchmi, a genus also represented in Eu- rope, and occurring principally in dry plains; and tfiodites (0, S., Western dipt.) ; belong- ing to the group lomatha. It must be borne . . .. ., , .. * .e 9 r
vations of MacLeay (Ann. nat. hist., 1838), Morelet (Bull. BOC. entom. France, 1845, p xxiv), Schmidt Gaebel (Stettinet ent. Zeit., . - . -. ,-
ever since his college days. In the pursui mind, nowever, tnai: me larvae 01 uomoy- and locality.
California furnished 5000 s
s (in the narrower senue) live in the cells irnens, and New England as many m
different bees (aftifrem, colfefes, Adiclus), One species is represented by 108 npecim s has been ascertained by the direct obser- from all f
how mile'
ing form.
6, p. T,V 1, and I". A. Lhftpman (Entom. of the subject, comprising about 70,000 refe . mag., 1878, v. 14, p. 196). What re-
ences on 10,000 cards.
This valuable cont
ins to be ascertained now, are the early bution to the study of this litt
those larvae, which, as M~. ~ i i ~ ~
ly remarks (1. c. p. 2821, very prob-
Iv are "much more active than in the later Aug. i8Bt, v. 138, no. 27, p.
refifilts from the fact that the fly per- $ the act of oviposition in the open air, is, some distance from the underground
ftpman; but we have also earlier
pocket-knit'e, it, to my
s, the enrlkst being that of Gi!-
ritnning away, placed the injured part in i mouth and began to moisten it with a flu secretion, behavingrnuch ns a child doe^ wi nd against the pss thnt stands in
with the same result.
by Prftuenfeld on the ovipositian of lomafi'a At another time I drove we. of these spiders {Verh. 2.-B. Gee,., 1864, p. 688).
The etate-
from place to place by gently touching it. menta of Zetterstedt (Ine. Lapp., p. 520) and Finally it took a position on a horizontal Zeller (Isis, 18+0, p. 25,) on the oviposition leaf, its long legs projecting beyond the edge or anthrax differ in the fact that both ob- of the leaf. I touched these extremities as servers saw the fly i~~wrt the end of the before, whereupon it began to move its body abdomen in the soil.-C : R. Ostsst SACKEN rapidly up and down, seemingly thinkins; in Ewtom. mu. mag., Feb. 1881. v. 17, p. thus to frighten away its mppofied enemy. 2620;.



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A NEW entomological society. without
definite place of meeting, is proposed in France.
AN ENTOMOLOGICAL periodical, the Wie-
ner entomologisrhe Zeitung, will be com- menced in January 1882 at Vienna, Austria. Its price will be eight marks a ?ear.
MR. I3 : PICKMAX M 4x8 was appointed As- sistant Entomologist of the United States Department of Agriculture, 23 July 1881. and entered upon his duties I Sept. 1881.
W. W. FOWLER states, in the Entom. mo.
mug.. June 1881, v. 18, p. 18-19, that a speci- men of rhagzkm i~zq~~isitor, on which he experimented, supported by the clinch of its jaws a suspended weight 547 times the weight of itself.
MR. AUGUSTUS R. GROTE has sold hih
fine collection of North American lepidoptera. for five thousand dollars, the British Museum of London, Eng.. being the purchaser. Thus. by the neglect of home institutions to secure this collection. repletewith typical specimens, it has been lost permanently to the country where it belonged.
A WELL-KNOWN resident in Quebec i.s
about to establish an apiary in the city on a very extensive scale. He has sent to Ceylon to obtain a special species of bee recently dis- covered in that island by Mr. Benton, the American apiarist. It is stated that Mr. Jones, of Beeton, Ontario. hold 37,000 lbs. [16,783 Kilos.] of honey from his apiary du- ring last year.-Colonies and I<z(fia, 10 Dec. 1881, p. 4.
THE FOLLOWING paragraph was crowded
out of Dr. H. A. Hagen7s article on $socfiia. on p. 220 of the current volume of' PSYCHE :- I am not prepared to give any satisfactory explanation of the use of the pterostigma- hook. It seems doubtless that it will serve for some purpose, but I think not for copula- tory purposes, as it occurs in both sexes. It
seems to be more developed in the genera which jump easily, and perhaps it may serve as a point of support for the intended motion of jumping". The ptei-o&tigma is apparently a blood sinu'i, qervina; as regulator of the blood cirqulation.
SOCIETY MEETIN-GS.
THE REGULAR Meetings of the Cambridge
Entomological Club will be held at 7.45 p.m., on the days following :-
14 Oct. 1881.
10 Mar. 1882.
11 Nov. '* 14 Apr.
.g Dec. * b 12May ';
13 Jan. 1882. 9June
10 Feb. L.
B : PICKMAN MANN, Secretary.
THE REGULAR meetings of the Entomologi-
cal Section of the Boston Society of Natural History will be held at N. W. corner of Berke- ley and Boylston Sts., Boston, Mass., at 7.45 p.m., on the days following : -
26 Oct. 1881. 22 Feb. 1882.
23 Nov. " 22 Mar. - L
28 Dec. *-
26 Apr.
25 Jan. 1882. 24 May '&
I3 : PICKMAN MANN. Secretary.
THE REGULAR meetings of the Entomolog-
ical Section of the Academy of Natural Sci- ences, of Philadelphia, Pa.. will be held at S. W. corner of 19th and Race Sts., on the days following- :-
14 Oct. 1881.
10 Mar. 1882.
11 Nov. " 14 Apr. - L
9 Dec. '* 12 May "
I-} Jan. 1882. 9June b s
10 Feb. ''
JAMES H. RIDINGS. Recorder.
THE SEMI-ANNUAL meetings of the Atner-
ican Entomological Society will be held at S. W. corner of 19th and Race Sts., Philadel- phia. Pa., on the days following :-
12 Dec. 1881.
12 June 1882.
JAMES H. RIDINGS, Rec. Sec'y.
THE REGULAR monthly meetings of the
Montreal Branch of the Entomological So- ciety of Ontario, will be held at Montreal, Que.. Canada, on the days following :-
6 Sept. 1881. 3 Jan. 1882.
4 Oct. 7 Feb. *L
I Nov. ** 7 Mar. ';
6 Dec. .' 4 Apr. Lb
G : H. BOWLES. Secretary.
PRIZE ESSAYS.
DUE 1.5 OCT. 1882.-Life-histories of ScZe- rostomu sytzgamus and of Strongilus jergru- r/Zi.e,
See PSYCHE, v. 3. p. 59.




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