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Jan.-Feb. 1SS3.1 PS~ciYi!?, 19
ENTOMOLOGICAL ITEMS. PRESERVATION OF HONEY. Honey, accord- - DR. Ayros STUXBERG, of Stockholm, has "S A- vogel~ On an average One been appointed director of the natural his- per cent of formic acid. Observing that crude tor? museum in GSteborg, Sweden. to fill the better that which has been
place of prof- A, W. ~~l,,.,, who died in clarified, E. hfylius has tried the addition of March 1882.
formic acid, and found that it prevents fer- mentation without impairing the flavor of Mu. CHARLES FISH, of Brunswick. Me.,
the honey.-Sci amer., 18 Nov. iSSs, v. 47, has been obliged to give up the study of the jh-vophondae and has tmnsferred his co1- '' 3'4'
lection of thnt family to Prof. C. H. Fernald, THE u- s- Of *griculture
of Orono, Me.
authorizes the editors of PSYCHE to announce that copiesof his annual Reports for 1881- THE NECROLOGY for the preceding year,
1882 will be sent to any entomologist who which has
formed a part Of the
applies for them.
MT. knn IMG mde out a
Bibliographical Record for each February list of most of the principal entomologists, nuiiiero of PSYCHE, will be a part of the to whom the reports have been sent, and will March nurnero this year.
be pleased to see that copies are sent to any MR. HESRY G. DAMMER, 938 Ilroadway,
ofiers who may wish them,
St. Louis, Mo., is desirous of obtaining speci- AT TUB meeting of the Academy of Natural of lepidoptera*
sciences of Philadelphia, 30 May tsz, Pro. species. Catocalae from the eastern United fessor Leidy called nttention to the abun- States ale particularly desired.
dance of the ant Lasius ififerfsctus in the PROF- E. METSCH~lKO~F, the widely neighborhood of Philadelphia. It is habi- known authorof Papers on the embryology
tual with this ant to care for an Aphis and of insects, has, left the University of Odessa, a Census, both of which it guards in flocks. Russia, and Prof. W. Salensky of the Uni- He described a particular nest under a 'flat versity of Kasan is called to å£1 his place. &tone,
six distinct and closely
MR. L. 0. HOWARD has found that pyre- crowded groups of the pale yellowish Aphis, thrum increases the heart-beat of the larvae and five of the red Coccus.-Am. sat., Jan. of plusM br&caf from its normal rate of
1883, v. 17, p- t18.
from 44 to 68 beats Per minute to 150 to 1% COLLRCT~~G COLEOPTERA. "The large
beats, after which it subsided to 140 beats coarse tufts of grass that are to be found in and just before death to 13o.beats per minute. every field are very productive if cut
AN INTERESTING series of papers by Rev.
round with a sharp knife, lifted gently, and W. W. Fowler, under the title "Natural 10- then inverted and shaken over paper. This
eiities of British coleoptera" is in progress is a verv good method of collecting in winter, in The Eitiomuhgi~t. Altho the species as it is almost certain to produce something, treated of are British the methods of collect- if all else has failed. Almost any beetle may
ing described in the paper make it well worth be found in this way, as the tufts are favour- perusal. ite hybernating places ; st~Sylinidae, how- DR. M. SCHHJGIN recommends, in the ever, especially Stetti, are the commonest."- Zodogisckfr Anwiger, a mixture of paraffin w- w- Few Ier in The Entomologist, Oct. and ceresin as an imbedding materiaf in 1882. v- 15, P. 331-232- cutting bectiom with the microtome.
Cere- PROTECTIVE CHANGE of color in a spider.- .sin is similar to wax but firmer and more I suppose you know the little flower spiders, tenacious. This mixture is somewhat hard, that conceal themselves in the flowers, and but if a setter one is desired a little vaselin seize any unwary insect that may chance to is added. come within their reach, I have generally



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found them white and yellow. I suspected they changed their color, and by experiment, I find that this is so. If I take a white one and put it on a sunflower, it will get quite yellow in from two to three days. I believe they capture almost anything, but they seem to be partial to the bees, I found one the . other day with a wasp, the latter was not yet dead, but it was tightly held by the throat by the spider. The next day the wasp was found lying dead under the flower.-James Angus, in Amer. naturalist, Dec. 1882, v. 16, p. 1010.
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cause of the delay in the issue of PSYCHE has been the lack of good material for pub- lication. Articles of the greatest permanent value in entomology are hard to obtain for the reason that they are not hurried into print by their authors to gain priority. SOCIETY MEETINGS.
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HENRY EDWARDS, Secretary.
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JAMES H. RIDINGS, Recording Secretary.
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Broadway, Brooklyn, E. D., N. Y., on the days following :-
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