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Psyche 4:191-192, 1883.

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PSYCHE. 191
ENTOMOLOGICAL ITEMS.
Cornell university on 19 June of this year, ON account of inability to arrange satis- when he was made a Bachelor of science in factoriiy the rnaterial on hand for publics- the departments of science and letters, and tion this double numero contains four pages received a licentiate certificate in the medical lees than is usual. This deficiency will be Preparatory course. We hail with pleasure made up in the succeeding nurnero. the advent to the ranks of the entomologists ABOUT THE middle of June thick clouds of in this country of every member who is not: dragon-files, Lihelltda qnudrirftaculata and con tent with pinning and exchanging speci- LA da, were seen flying east over Moscow, mens, describing new species and discussing Russia. They were at first mistaken for
their names, but seeks to advance the knowl- locusts.
edge of their essential structure, relations to the rest of-the world, and manner of life. WE INCLUDE in the Bibliographical record several references to corydalm cordus, to 3: P. M
accompany the article by Mr. Kmiiss, on
DR. FRITZ MULLER, under title of "Butter- that insect. For earlier references see the flies as botanists" note6 in Nature for 10 July Bibii~g~aphical record, no. 468, 86s g, 971 ), 18Q that '(The citerpiliars of Mecianitis, 1037 6, 1115, 1348, r40t.
Dircem, Cevutinia and Ifhoinia feed on dif- IN TW Bulletin d7 jnJTectOIDsi<! agricole ferent specie6 of sffzaf~ceae (Saturn, Cyflo- for May 1884 appears the first portion of a mads' ~ m v ~ a , Ci-sh=), those of the
notice of Dr. C. V. Riley and his work as an allied genus Tkyridia on BrwwfeUia. Now
economic entomologist, written in an ticipn- this latter S'nu5 of plants
been PI^^
tion of his third visit to France this year. unaniii~cusly among the scrofkuhineas, till The notice is entitled
et lqentomologie
quite recently it wag trmsfers-ed by Bentham agraire aux &tats-~nis."
nnd Hooker to the solavaceae.
Thus it ap+
pears that butterflies had recognized the true DR. H : C. McCoo~ has recently described affinity of ~~~sfelh long before botanists the cocoon of a species of spider which he did
Dr. Miiiler likewise shows that the
dls, provi6ionally, M k i a lhfZjCU#i7~- close affinity of aa/mhnÌöÌ ja and 7ywb, two The peculiarity of the cocoon ~0nSi6tS in its genera of etd~hai-fi~ceae, "had been duly . being covered with mud, and
appreciated by butterflies," altho only lately ed by a thread beneath fallen boards.
The
recognized by bolmi~ts,
cocoons were found in Iliinois.
PROF. XAVER LANDERER, of Athens,
ENTOMOLoGy just suKered ' in Greece, writes to the Dcr~tsch-~~ficrika~ii$~A~ the death, at Copenhagen, early in June, of a$otheker-zeihiiig (15 May 1882, jahrg. 3, no. Prof. J. C. Schiodte, a well known entomo- logical author. Ainong otherentomofogists, " '' '34) '-
"As far as I can determine the manna of
notices of whose deaths we have seen lately, the Israelites, with which they are said to are Mr. Edwin Birchall, lepidopterist, who have nouri~hed themselves for forty yenrs in died in DougSnss, Ide of Man, on 2 May
the wilderness, comes from Myriad mnnni- 1884, and Mr. William Pi-est, lepidopterist, fera. The manna is known to be secreted
born 7 May 1824, in York, England, and died from openings which are made in the leaves 7 April 1884 in the same town.
A
of the tree by a gall-insect, Cynips massipa- MR. W: C. KKAUSS, whow description of
rax. The manna trickles slowly down nnd
the nervous system of the head of the larva hardens. The monks collect this manna at of Coryddus torim-~HS we pbli41 at this time, the preeent time and eat it ns hallowed food. nttained special final in the subject of Sometimes strangers are honored with a insect anatomy at his graduation from the (imfill quantity -is> npresent




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"This manna should not be confused with
the Mana-mam, in Arabic Abel Atse; these are earth-nuts (Cyperns esculenfus), which are nearly indispensable as food for the poor Arab people."
GUSTAV WEYMER describes and figures in
the Jahresbericht des naturwissenschaftlichen vereins in Elberfeld, Heft 6, two hermaphro- ditic lepidoptera. One of them, an Afitura iris, while'really a female has various color- ation characteristics of a male. The other specimen, a Nemeofi//iIa russula, has the right half female, the left male; this speci- men is the more striking because the male and female of this species vary strikingly in coloration, size, and form. The same author (1. c.) describes and figures varieties of Pa- å´pili machaon, Afatiira in's, Limenitis si- bylla, Vanessa j+oZychloros, Melitaea atkalia, Argyn1zis selene., A rctia ca/a, Acronycta nze~zyanthidis, Hybernia leiico-phaearia, and Bistotz stratarius. In the same heft Carl Cornelius gives a list of 2304 species of coleoptera from Elberfeld and
its vicinity,
adding notes concerning habits and food of numerous species and general remarks on
the coleopterous fauna of the region.
SOCIETY MEETINGS.
THE REGULAR meetings of the Cambridge
Entomological Club will be held at 7.45 p. m., on the days following :-
10 Oct. 1884.
13 Mar. 1885.
7 Nov. '& 10 Apr.
12Dec. " 8 May ' &
9 Jan. 1885. 12 June i L
13 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. in., on the days following:-
22 Oct. 1884.
25 Feb. 1885.
26 Nov. & ' 25 Mar. '&
24 Dec. L L 22 Apr. "
28 Jan. 1885. 27 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 :-
10 Oct. 1884,
13 Mar. 1885.
7 Nov. L 6 10 Apr. "
12 Dec. '& 8 May '&
g Jan. 1885. 12 June
13 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 :-
8 Dec. 1884.
8 June 1885.
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 :-
7 Oct. 1884.
3 Feb. 1885.
4 Nov. 3 Mar. '&
2 Dec. " 7 Apr.
6 Jan. 1885. 5 May "
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. 121 was issued 11 July 1884.




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