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NovemberÌÔ"Decembe 1883.1 PSYCHE. 119
ENTOMOLOGICAL ITEMS.
MR. C. J. A. PORTER published, in the
American naturalist for December 1883, a most thoroughly unscientific report on some experiments to test the function of-the anten- nae of insects.
THE Bulletin d'insectolofie agricole for July-September contains an interesting ac- count of the exhibition of insects held last July in the palace of industry, at Paris, to- gether with a list of the prizes and medals awarded to exhibitors.
THE NOVEMBER numero of that enterpris-
ing magazine, {he Kaunas City review, con- tains, besides other interesting articles, not pertnining to entoniohg~,, an agreeable paper by T. Berry Smith on "Natural science in the 17th century," and an abstract, by Dr. C: V. Riley, on "Emulsions of petroleum and their value as insecticides."
CIRCULAR NO. I of the Department of en-
tomology of the New York state museum of natural history, issued by Mr. J. A. Lintner in October, contains notes upon the chinch- bug, Slis.tus ieucofterus, and its attack upon the crops of portions of St. Lawrence county, New York. An enlarged figure of the insect and directions for checking its depredations are given. Whether these insects have done any serious damage to crops in Massachusetts this year, or not, I do not know, but on 28 March the low land between Belmont and
Cambridge was swarming with them. G: D,
AGAIN WE have the unpleasant duty of re- cording the death of one of our leading Amer- ican entomologists. Dr. John L. LeConte, whose numerous publications on North Amer- ican coleoptera have rendered the systematic study of these insects so easy, died at his home in Philadelphia, 15 Nov. 1883. The
December numero of the Bulletin of the
Brooklyn entomological society contains a portrait of Dr. LeConte, and an obituary notice by Mr. F. G. Schaupp. The notice
which appears in this numero of PSYCHE
was originally written, at the request of Dr. A. S. Packard, j~., for the entomological de- partment of the American naturalist, which department Dr. Riley has been editing. The exclusion of the article by Prof. E : D. Cope, one of the editors of the American natural- isf, against the protest of Dr. Riley, has caused the latter's withdrawal from that maga- zine, The notice having been offered to
PSYCHE with this explanation, we are pleased to publish it as a token of the high esteem in which we held the late coleopterist, and of our appreciation of the competency of the distinguished author to write such a notice as shall command respect from any journal in the land. We had intended to write a notice, which we will now omit.
AT A recent meeting of the French ento-
mological society, Dr. Labaulbfene instanced a, case in which dipterous larvae had been vomited by a woman thirty-nine years old, under the care of Dr. E. Pichat of La Rochelle. Specimens of the pupa, and of the fly hatched from them ( Cwloneitra sfaiiulans Fall.), were exhibited to the society. The woman had been troubled for some days with bron- chiti6 and very fetid breath, and finally, after a severe attack of coughing, vomited twice. Dr. Pichat afterward found in the basin used a hundred to a hundred and fifty of these larvae; and the circumstances as related by him leave no serious doubt of their source, though he was not present during the vomit- ing, but only called immediately after it This larva, according to Laboulb&ne, is
well known, and is ordinarily found in de- composing animal and vegetable matter, in mushrooms, etc., and has also been reared from caterpillars and hymenopterous larvae. The possibility of the existence of such flies (muscariae) in the human body was formerly generally accepted, but has lately been denied by Davaine. Experiments have proved, says Dr. Laboulbfene, that such larvae, introduced into the stomach of animals by a fistula, have been discharged alive in the excrement, one, two, or even three days later. --Science, 23 Nov. 1383, v. 2, p. 697.
TUB POLLOWIKG notes upon the medicinal
use of preparations of Slaita ortentalis are



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120 ps 2 pcH2?. [November-Decem ber 1883. extracted from an abstract given in the
Deutsck-a?nerikam'.de apotheker-zeiiung', I Apr. 1883, jahrg. 4, p. 49, of a paper by T. Bogornolow, published in the St. Petersburg med. wochensch~~ft:
Bogornolow first introduced this medicine into practice in 1876. In the course of the last six years it has been used successfully for dropsy by several physicians, while others have had negative results. Favorable action resulted in 47 per cent. of cases published heretofore. Bogornolow mentions 70 addi- tional cases, in 29 of which the medicine was administered in powdered fo 91, and in 41 as tincture. In 19 cases the author brought about profuse perspiration, in 61 cases clear increase of urination, and in 13 cases in- crease of intestinal evacuation
(by stronger
transudation through the intestinal walls). He had in no case seen symptoms of irritation 01- other inconvenient accessory action. The tincture was prepared by soaking well-dried and pulverized cockroaches in six times their weight of 95 per cent. alchohol for two or three days in a warm place.
Of this tincture
the author prescribes for adults a tablespoon- ful thrice daily, for children twenty drops thrice daily. The powder is to be used only in case of emergency, and spoils easily by exposure.
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.
g Nov. " 11Apr. "
14 Dec. " may '&
11 Jan. 1884. 13 June "
8 Feb.
G. DIMMOCK, Secretary.
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. rn., on the days following :- 24 Oct. 1883.
27 Feb. 1884.
28 Nov. "
26 Mar. ' '
26 Dec. " 23 Apr. "
23 Jan. 1884. 28 May
EDWARD BURGESS, Secretary.
THE REGULAR meetings of the Entoino-
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 I Apr. "
14Dec. " 9 May '&
11 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.
TH-E 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. 5 Feb. 1884.
6 Nov. " 4 Mar. "
4 Dec. I Apr. "
8 Jan. 1884. 6 May 4i
G. J. BOWLES, Secretary.
THE MONTHLY meetings of the Brooklyn
Entomological Society will be held in the rooms of Wright'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, Secretary.
No. 113-11~ were issued 16 Nov. 1883.




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