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atrocoxalis Cresson. No dipterous parasites have yet been reported from 

 this species, but doubtless Archytas analis, reported from Clisiocai)ipa 

 californica, and Tac/iina niclla, reported for C/isiocainpa sp. at West 

 Cliff, Colo, (see Coquillett, Revision of the Tachinidfe) were in reality 

 bred from C.fragilis. T. D. A. COCKEKELL. 



MR. W. G. FREEDLY, JR., states that l.iinenitcs, ort/innis was very 

 scarce at East Dorset, Vermont, during the past summer. It is usually 

 there in great abundance. He also reports the capture of Callidryas eiibn/c 

 at the same place on August 2yth. This is a very rare species in New 

 England, especially in the northern part. 



Lasiocampa medusa Strecker. My friend Dr. Abbot, of Pasadena, 

 while on a visit to his ranch near San Diego, Cal., found one of these 

 moths in his tent, and about the same time a man working on the place 

 found another. ' Thinking they might be something good, judging from 

 their size and general appearance, Dr. Abbot turned them over to me. 

 The two specimens agree almost exactly with Dr. Strecker's description 

 in ENT. NEWS, January, 1898, except as to size, my specimens being 3^ 

 inches in expanse of the wings. On comparing with arizoneiisis, they 

 prove to be very distinct by their heavy appearance and thick hair on the 

 abdomen. The specimens were shown to several other collectors in 

 this vicinity and they were of the same opinion as to the identification of 

 the species. Dr. Strecker's specimen is the only other known as far as I 

 know, so I thought this would be worth recording. FORDYCE GRIN- 

 NELL, JR., Pasadena, Cal. 



YOUR naptha launch story in last issue may do very well in the United 

 States, but is nothing for a country where we feed pigs on the salmon 

 thrown ashore, and stop railway trains with tent caterpillars. Last fall, 

 writer's company put down quarter of a mile of small-sized water pipe 

 and afterwards found that nearly every section was stopped up by rr/V/v/.v. 

 It had been lying on the ground at the time first frosts reminded crawling 

 things of winter quarters, and was literally so packed that \ve could not 

 shake or force the creatures out, but had to dissicate them. In time and 

 trouble they easily cost us a couple of hundred dollars. Entomologists ! 

 come to Canada. DVVIGHT PRAINERD, Montreal, Dec. 10, 1900. 



AT TOKIO, toward the close of May and the beginning of June, one 

 sees suspended under the verandas of houses beautiful little: cages oi 

 bamboo from which break upon the ear strange little metallic whistlings 

 of light trills, which fill the air with delicate music. The musical sounds 

 are emitted by certain insects. Listening to these minute singers has 

 beep for many centuries a favorite pastime of the Japanese. The most 

 prized of these singing insects is the suzumushi. Its name means "insect 

 bell," and the sound which it emits resembles that of a tiny silver bell. 

 It is a tiny black beetle, of a flat body and very vulgar appearance. The 



