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Gleditschia triacanthus, in the crevices of the bark of which 

 he found a number of specimens of this species. He further 

 stated that in the collection of insects made by Mr. Franklin 

 Sherman, Jr., in North Carolina, he found a Reduviid belonging 

 to the sub-family Stenopodinae, near the genus Gnathoblcda, 

 which Champion described and figured as Schumannia mexi- 

 cana, in The Biologia Central!- Americana. The description was 

 based on one specimen which came from Vera Cruz, Mexico, and it 

 was remarkable, he said, that this same species should have been 

 found in North Carolina. The genus is distinguished by the 

 narrow thorax and the strong, long spines on the trochanter. 



Mr. Schwarz stated that he had a list of the injurious in 

 sects of Cuba as observed by him this spring. The champion 

 of all injurious insects there is Atta cephalotes, the leaf-cutting 

 ant. The next place, however, should be given to a species of 

 myriapod, which plays there the role of our cutworms. It eats 

 and injures anything that is cultivated, such as strawberry, cab 

 bage, egg-plant, young orange trees, etc. Where he had been 

 called to find the cause of injury to cultivated vegetation, he had 

 always found this pest to be the author of it. Mr. O. F. Cook 

 identified it as Orthomorpha coarctata Saussure, a species 

 which, Mr. Cook stated, probably came originally from the 

 East Indies. The only remedy that Mr. Schwarz could sug 

 gest against these pests was to put ashes or tobacco dust sweepings 

 upon the ground. He found these creatures especially abundant 

 after a rain. 



Mr. Dodge then presented his paper entitled " Gloveriana." 

 He stated that 15 years ago he had published Townend Glover's 

 biography.* The information for this he had gathered from a 

 scrap-book, which was made up of MS. notes and plates made by 

 Glover. He gave the stages of evolution in the making of 

 Glover's plates, which were at first of pocket size and of in 

 sects only, so that they might be conveniently carried in a pocket 

 notebook. Later he determined to have drawings of the plants 

 infested to accompany those of the insects, and later still he had 

 thought of undertaking to publish and illustrate the insect fauna 

 of the entire United States. Mr. Dodge exhibited these scrap- 



*Bull. Div. Ent. U. S. Dept. Agr., No 18, 1888. 



