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Psyche 4:79-80, 1883.

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July-August ~Sij.]
ENTOMOLOGICAL ITEMS. tial letters for generic names, and often lower-case Setters for specific nanE6 derived SEVExTH of Russian from names of persons. mythological char- ralists and physician6 will be held this year . and plaks4 * a,,d gene rnl at Odessa. from 30 Aug. to 9 Sept. use of lower-case initial letters, at leaft for ,
HAGEN notes in the April ntimero
species, would have been stili more accept- of the Bntom/og-Let!? mo. mflgwif~e, that able 13 the Some errors in ortho- Simulium, the "black-fly,"sucks out the juices and typography occur, but do not ]es- of chrysalids of Pieris meuopin.
sen the general usefulness of Mr. Reed's THE FIRST numero of Zoologische Bei- index. G: D. i)-Eg~, a new German journal, contains a M. FREDERICK, of Liige, says the BagfiA
paper by Prof. Anton Schneider on the de- mechanic, lately put several aquatic coleoptera velopment of S^&uerdunu bombi, the curious (including the great water beetle) in aqueous heminth parasitic in Bomius.
solution of curare and strychnine in poisob- W~LLIAM A L E ~ ~ ~ ~ E R FORC~=.
ous quantity. A few drops of these liquors English naturalist who has devoted much
sufficed to poison a frog in a few minutes,. tirne to entol,.,ology, died at shonea, on the The insects, however, lived in them, some upper Niger, Africa, on 14 Jan. 188~. He more than a fortnight, others nearly a month wae born' at Cheltenhaln. Enslalid. 24 jmie (when the expel-iine~it wn6 concluded). These 1855.
coleoptera are certainly sensible to the action FROM SBVESAL parts of Sweden the ap-
of curare and strychnine, and the absence pearance of an unknown caterpiilar, which of ^"Ptorns of poisoning in the present
consumes the crops, is reported. Its length case must be (the author says) because the is from one inch to one and a half. and its absOr~tion
the surface of the
and
color grey-brown with green stripes. In one the mouth wab mi. M. Plateau has previous- piace it put in an appearance immediatelv ly observed that aquatic coleoptera kept in after a violent storm with rain+
The
sea water do nut ahsorb its salts.-Amw.
my of agriculture has despatched an ~nto- +^UK. i8s^ '' '7. P' WAW
roologist to visit the places from which it is IX TIIE Bulletin ofthe Bnfalo wiftra/ist.% reported.-Nature, 5 July 1883, v. 28, p. 234, field dub for March of the present year
(1#3), Prof. D. S. Kellicott, of Buffalo, pROFh cHR1sTOpH z'LLER' describes and figures a remarkable larva GrGnhof, near Stettin, Germany. died at that xvhich he ,,as this year ou,,
upon
place 27 March 1883.
He was born 9 April
and destroying nearly all of the galls of Ccci- 1809, at Steinheim-on-the-Murr, in Wiirttem- domyia sdicif-batalw that had formerly
berg. Prof. Zeiler was a well-known ail- abounded upon some low willows occupying thority on tiiicrolepidoptera. some of his waste land near the city. The larva was
papers Ihose found to be a species of pfct~psjEr be]ong- An inte~e~ting ~ ~ W Z V ~ Y of Prof Zder- it,g to the group known that of the kAcy- JA. T. stainton, is @vef' in the lmofldo- c]o*s 1 arvae, 9. fro", the
rese",b] a,.,ce
@t's mouiAl~ ma~clzifle* June 1% r+ 20,
itq iarvae bear to the cr,,sb
of the s-
p. 1-8.
nits Cvchfts. The peculiar manner in which MR. ED MU^ BAYNES REED has compiled
five-joinkd abdomen is folded under-
a very convenient "General index to the
neath the body, like that ofa crawfish
thirteen annual reports of the Entomological hcting her eggs, it a very interesting
society of the province of Onbrio. 1870- form. I%:!" which has been published by the soci- we hope that prof. Keilicott may soon
et?. In a few instances the compiler, prub- be able to determine the species, if it be one ably inadvertently. has need louver-case ini- fiat llas been described, y, A. z,,



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IN A brief paper upon --Insects injurious to fruit," by Mrs. Mary Treat, read before the New Jersey state horticultural society, at its annual meeting in January last, among other items of interest, a statement was made of a remarkable collection of "cut-worms" by the writer, which may serve to show the
value of the same method of dealing with these notorious pests, when employed upon a larger scale. Some phlox bordering a car- riage-way through an orchard of dwarf pear .
trees was observed one morning to be partly denuded of its leaves and flower-buds. The cause being suspected, it was examined the following evening with a light, when "un- told numbers of cut-worms were seen among the flower-buds." Numerous worms were
at work on the branches of a plum tree
beside them. A large number of worms
were found eating into the just expanding buds of the pear-trees.
The soil around the phlox was examined,
and the first collection resulted in over a pint of worms of various sizes. The best time for this search was found to be about dusk in the evening, for the worms were
th;:! just beneath the surface of the ground. Y. A. L.
SOCIETY MEETINGS.
THE REGULAR meetings of the Cambridge
Entomological Club will be held at 7.45 p. m., on the days following :-
12 Oct. 1883.
14 Mar. 1884.
9 Nov. b b 11 Apr. ' '
14 Dec. -' Q May
11 Jan. 1884. 13 June ..
8 Feb. -'
G. DIMMOCK. Secreta/y,
THE NEW YORK Entomological Club meets
twice monthly, except in June, July and
August, but no special date is fixed for each meeting.
HENRY EDWARDS, Secretary.
THE REGULAR meetings of the Entomo-
logical Section of the Boston Society of Natural History will be held at N. W. corner of Berkeley and Boylston Sts., Boston, Mass.. at 7.45 p. m., on the days following :-
24 Oct. 1883.
27 Feb. 1884.
28 Nov. is 36 Mar. -.
26 Dec. 23 Apr. - b
23 Jan. 1884. 28 May L *
EDWARD BURGESS. Secretary.
THE REGULAR meetings of the Entomo-
logical Section of the Academy of Natural Sciences, of Philadelphia. Pa., will be held at S. W. corner of 19th and Race Sts.. on the days following :-
12 Oct. 1883.
14 Mar. 1884.
9 Nov. i' 11Apr. "
14 Dec. 9 May -'
I I Jan. 1884. 13 June -.
8 Feb.
JAMES H. RIDINGS. Recorder.
THE SEMI-ANNUAL meetings of the Ameri-
can Entomological Society will be held at S. W. corner of 19th and Race Sts.. Philadelphia, Pa.. on the days following :-
10 Dec. 1883.
9 June 1884.
JAMES H. RIDINGS. Recording Secretary.
THE REGULAR monthly meetings of the
Montreal Branch of the Entomological Soci- ety of Ontario, will be held at Montreal, Que., Canada, on the days following :-
2 Oct. 1883.
j Feb. 1884.
6 Nov. " 4 Mar. "
4 Dec. " 1 Apr. ‰Û
8 Jan. 1884. 6May i L
G. J. BOWLES, Secretary.
THE MONTHLY meetings of the Brooklyn
Entomological Society will be held in the rooms of Weight's Business College, Broad- way, corner of Fourth Street. Brooklyn,
E. D., the last Saturday of each month ex- cept July and August.
F. G. SCHAUPP, Secrettir~.
No. IOQ-110 were issued 12 Julv 1883.




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