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April 183.4.)
PSYCHE.
ENTOMOLOGICAL ITEMS.
THE NATURAL history society at Spring-
field, Mass., proposes to begin an insect col- lection.
M. ADRIKX DOLLTOS, the editor of the
Feriilie des felines naiur/i/i.t/es, at 3 j, rue Pierre-Charron, Paris, France, desires to ex- change European oniscoda for American spe- cies.
THE JANUARY nistnero of the American col- legs- directory, published at St. Louis, Mo., contains a portrait of Dr. C : V. Riley, of Washington, D. C., with a brief notice of hie life.
THE DOLLFUS prize of the French entom-
ological society is awarded, for the year 1883, to M. Ernest Andr.4, for his work entitled 'SpfS~ik~ dee formicides d'Europe et des pays limitrophes."
DR. GRASS! has found that flies fed with materials which contain eggs of worms leave these eggs in their excrement, and that con- sequently meat which wa.6 exposed to the vis- its of the flies could help in distributing para- sites.
IN THE November session of the zoolog-
ical section of the Webtf$lischer provincial- verein fur wissenschaft und kunst, Mr. Putt showed the crop of a pheasant which was
ful! of larvae; about 15 millimetres long, belonging to some species of diptera.
There were 411 larvae in the crop.
IT is announced that the Russian grand-
duke Nikolai Michailowiteh, eldest son of grand-duke Michail, intend& to issue in parts a fine work under the title "Mrimoires 1dpi- dopt&ologiques," the bftsis for which will be his own large collection of lepidoptera, rich in species which he collected in the Cau- casufi.
WE LEARK from the Entomologists monthly
magazine that the Ray society has acquired the late Mr. 'William Buckler's drawings of the larvae of British macroiepitloptera, to- gether with the voluminous manuscript which accompanies them, and they will probably form the subject for three or four volumes of the society's pub3iciitions.
DR. H. A. HAGEN. in a letter to Science for 11 April 1884, shows that the Hessian fly was known by that name in the United States be- fore the Revolution.
Quotations are given
froin the minutes of the American philosoph- ical society of Philadelphia, as early as 18 May 1768, where the committee on husbandry was "to consider whether any method can be fallen upon for preventing the damage done to wheat by the Hessian fly."
IN A brief summary of the Europenn spe-
cies of lepidoptera with upterous or subapter- otis females, by.Dr. R. C. R. Jordan, in the Entu~nohgist's monthly magazine for March 1884, it is shown that wingless lepidoptera exist in the following families : heferogynidae, arrii't'tiite, kfpialidae, fsychiiiae (all species), liparidno, voctuidae (one species, Ulocklaena hirta}, yeomein'dae, fyratidtte (part of the females of Accnfropas niveus, which oviposit under water), loftricidue, finyidae, and fa[- aeforidae.
DR. LAYET, of Bordeaux, has studied an
eruptive disease to which workers in a large vanilla warehouse in that place are subject, and found that the disease is caused by ti lit- tle insect (Acariis) which is found upon the outer end of the vanilla capsules. The in- sect does not bore into the skin, but causes ,the irritation by contact, aided perhaps by the mechanical action of aciculnr crystals which are upon the outside of the capsules. THE POISONOUS properties of carbon disul- phide [C&] have been investigated by a
number of doctors in California. The results show that con tintied breathing of carbon disitlphide produces derangement. As is
well known, carbon disulphide has been ex- tensively used in the wine-producing districts of California against phylloxera, and a num- ber of workmen, who were engaged in the
wine districts, have becomeinsane.-Deiits.ch- aM?7. a$ofk.-znitung, 15 Feb. rS84,f. 736. TUB NUMSRO of the Entomologist for March I& contains a. note entitled "Description of a Pieris new to science.-Pieris sjilleri, mi- hi. By A. J. Spiller," in which Mr. Spiller



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writes "As the insect is not in the Cape or British museum collections, and is unknown to collectors
of exotic insects who have ex-
amined it, and as Dr. Staudinger has pro- nounced it to be a new and interesting spe- cies, I beg therefore to name it after myself." Mr. Spillei- may be congratukited on the delicacy of the compliment he has received in having the species thus named after him.- G: D.
MR. J. J. WALKER, writing, in the Ento-
mologist's monthly magazine for March 1884, of Pitcairn Island, that curious little inhab- ited island in the Pacific near Tahiti, which, although only two and a quarter miles long by less than one mile wide, rises to a height of moo feet above the sea, says : "No butter- fly is apparently found on the island, and I saw onlya few common Tahitian moths ; but I found, for the first time, the large yellow- striped green larva of Choerocmnfa erotus on the 'Nono' plant, and a good many living pupae of S'phinx convolvzili (equal in size to English specimens) were brought to me,
having been found in the patches of sweet potatoes, of which a supply was then being dug up for the ship. Four species of coleo- ptera (a Toi)zicus?, two cossonid weevils, and a rhizophagoid?) occurred rarely."
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. 11 Apr. LL
14Dec. " 9May iL
11 Jan. 1884. 13 June *L
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 ~erkeley and Boylston Sts., Boston, Mass. at 7.45 p. m., on the days following:-
24 Oct. 1883.
27 Feb. 1884.
28 Nov.
26 Mar. "
26 Dec. 23 Apr. "
23 Jan. 1884. 28 May LL
EDWARD BURGESS, Secretary.
THE REGULAR meetings of the Entomo-
logical Section of the Academy of Natural Sciences, of PhiladeluJiia, Pa., will be held at S. W. corner of 19th and Race Sts., on the days following :-
12 Oct. 1883.
14 Mar. 1884.
g Nov. LL 11Apr. "
14 Dec. ''
g May "
I I Jan. 1884. 13 June '*
8 Feb. LL
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 :-
io Dec. 1883.
g 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. 5 Feb. 1884.
6 Nov. L'
4 Mar. LL
4 Dec. LL
I Apr. LL
8 Jan. 1884. 6May L'
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. 119 was issued 3 May 1884.




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