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January-February 1884.1
PSYCHE.
ENTOMOLOGICAL ITEMS.
BULLETIN NO. 3 of the Entomological divi- sion of the U. S. Department of agriculture was issued 8 Dec. 1883, and may be obtained on application to the U. S. Commissioner of agriculture at Washington.
THE SECRETARY of the Cambridge ento-
mological club has just published, at his own expense, the minutes of the club's meetings held during 1883. A copy has been sent to every active member of the club.
M. THEODORE GOOSSENS has announced
a memoir to appear in the annals of the
French enton~ological society on the eggs of lepidoptera. With M. Goossens' long experi- ence in rearing lepidopterous larvae this paper will be probably a valuable and inter- esting contribution to entomology.
MR. W. HAGUE HARRINGTON has present-
ed a list of 926 species of coleoptera taken about Ottawa, Canada, during the past six years, to the Ottawa field-naturalists' club. The list, when published, will contain about 1050 species, there being some yet awaiting determination.
DR. H. A. HAGEN, of Cambridge, Mass,,
is writing a monograph of the Odonata and is desirous of obtaining larvae and pupae of these insects, and especially reared specimens with notes upon their earlier stages.
MR. HENRY EDWARDS, who started and
has since edited and published Pa$iZio, has transferred that paper to Mr. Eugene M.
Aaron, who requests that all communications and business pertaining to P4ilio be ad- dressed to him, Lock Box 2500, Philadelphia, Pa.
PROF. BERG describes in a late numero of Kosmos, how a spider, Dia'ponfia kochii, found in Uruguay, uses funnel-formed webs to catch tadpoles for food. In the American naturalist for November 1876, T. M. Peters relates the mode by which a species of spider found in Alabama springs upon and captures minnows.
MR. WILLIAM JONES notes, in Science for
4 Jan. 1884, that he kept a spider alive in a box without food or drink for 204 days.
LE NATURALISTE CANADIEN, begun Dec.
1868, has just ceased publication, the final numero containing an explanation that the withdrawal of an allowance of$+oo heretofore granted it by the government rendered its continued publication impossible.
THE WORLD'S industrial and cotton cen-
tennial exposition, which will open early in December 1884, in New Orleans, La., in-
cludes in its scope exhibits of useful and noxious insects, and should not be forgotten by enton.ologis-ts. Further particulars can be obtained by addressing the director gen- eral of the exhibition, Mr. E. A. Burke, at New Orleans.
ANY PERSON who considers himself com-
petent to transcribe and to translate into En- glish with accuracy descriptions of insects in dutch, english, French, german, Italian, and latin, and has access to extensive entom- ological libraries. is invited to communicate with Mr. B : P. Mann, at the U. S. Department of agriculture. Washington. D.C., stating the price at which he would be willing to do such work.
THE MINISTRY of the interior of the gov- ernment of the Argentine Republic, by
resolution of 8 September 1883, refused to allow Don Julio Lacroze to import into the country a quantity of grape-vines lying in the custom house at Buenos Aires. This
resolution was founded on a previous decree prohibiting the introduction of grape-vines, so as to prevent the development of Phyl- loxera vitifoliae. - El nacionnl [Buenos Aires], 8 Sep. 1883, p. I, col. 8.
THE FRIENDS of the late Dr. Hermann
Miiller, of Lippstadt, Germany, have under- taken to establish a fund to honor the mem- ory of Dr. Muller and to aid his family. The fund will be termed the Muller-fund; its revenues will be given to Dr. Miiller's widow during her life-time, and after her



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140 p.5' 2-CHE. [ January-February 1884. death, to some descendant of Dr. Muller who may desire to study natural science, or to some other needy and worthy student of
natural science from the school at Lippstadt. Contributions may be sent to the treasurer of the committee on the M~iller-fund, Wil- helm Thurmann, City-treasurer of Lippstadt. The undersigned will forward with pleasure, to their destination, any 5ums he may receive for the fund, together with the names of the givers.
G: Dimmock.
MR. J. B. SMITH prepares his duplicate
coleoptera in the following manner :- They are soaked for a week or more in a fluid com- posed of 100 grams of alum, 25 of salt, 12 of saltpeter, 60 of potash and TO of white
arsenic dissolved in 3000 grains of boiling water. The solution is filtered and when cold add to every ten parts four of glycerin and one of methyl alcohol. Insects prepared in this manner remain soft and flexible and can be sent in boxes without being pinned and without danger of breaking. The same method could be applied to hemiptera and orthoptera. but probably it would not be successful with diptera, hymenoptera, lepi- doptera, or neuroptera.- Science record, Nov. 1883, v. 2, p. 15-16.
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. " 11 Apr. "
14 Dec. may
11 Jan. 1884. 13 June -'
8 Feb. ''
G. DIMMOCK, Sec?*etary.
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. 1' 26 Mar. l'
26 Dec. ' l 23 Apr. "
23 Jan. 1884. 28 May "
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., or. the days following :-
12 Oct. 1883.
14 Mar. 1884.
9 Nov. " 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, Qe., Canada, on the days following :-
2 Oct. 1883.
5 Feb. 1884.
6 Nov. 4 Mar.
4 Dec. ' I Apr. "
8 Jan. 1884. 6May "
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, Secretav.
No. 115-116 were issued 11 Feb. 1884.




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