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Notes and. News. 



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Dr. HORN expects to be absent from this city from the middle of April 

 to the first of June. This note will explain to correspondents the cause 

 of delay in receiving replies. 



THE NEWS begs to acknowledge the receipt, on several occasions, from 

 Mr. V. R. Pratt, of copies of the Reynoldsville (Pa.) Volunteer, contain- 

 ing his articles on the entomology of Reynoldsville and vicinity. The 

 last one received is on Compound eyes, whose structure Mr. Pratt illus- 

 trates by the piling together of six-sided church steeples to form a hemi- 

 sphere, with the points of the steeples in the centre, the bases of the 

 steeples on the surface representing the facets. The article is an excel- 

 lent example of the interest which can be imparted to presentations of 

 the facts of Entomology. 



THE many friends and scientific correspondents of Dr. John Hamilton, 

 of Allegheny, will be delighted to know that he is on the fair road to re- 

 covery from his recent protracted illness, which threatened at one time to 

 terminate fatally. He has been confined to his bed since the 5th of Feb- 

 ruary, but is again able to sit up for a part of each day, and hopes ere long 

 to be able to resume his studies of the Coleoptera, in which he has done 

 so much excellent work. He has in hand a lengthy paper upon the bee- 

 tles of Alaska, which will be a most valuable contribution to our know- 

 ledge of that comparatively little-known field, and his Catalogue of the 

 Coleoptera of western Pennsylvania is in such a state that it might soon 

 go to the hands of the printer. It is earnestly to be desired that he may 

 live to publish these papers upon which he has expended many years of 

 diligent labor. W. J. HOLLAND. 



THE imago of C. dionc first makes its appearance about June 2oth. 

 The insect is found in the greatest abundance on tall slough grass, as is 

 also C. thoe. However, I have rarely found them on wet, marshy ground. 

 C. dione is not difficult to collect, as it may often be seen hanging to the 

 side of the grass blade and easily captured before disturbed. \Vhen once 

 disturbed, however, its flight is rapid and very hard to follow with the eye. 



