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or decline to recognize any certificate properly issued in the State where 

 the examination is made. I am in much the same fix in New Jersey, and 

 do not even feel justified in refusing certificates dated in June, before the 

 first brood of scale is well under way, and when its first discovery in a 

 block of peaches is almost a physical impossibility. 



Another curiosity results from this : Prof. Alwood accepts certificates 

 signed by Prof. Forbes and by myself. In Illinois and in New Jersey 

 nurserymen are allowed to use the certificate given them upon stock 

 which they themselves receive under certificate. In New Jersey the nur- 

 seryman makes a declaration to that effect on his tags. Now, a Pennsyl- 

 vania grower may supply stock to an Illinois or New Jersey nurseryman, 

 and the latter may ship it safely into Virginia ! The whole thing is a 

 mess as tangled as the marriage and divorce laws, and in ten years hence 

 there will be no difference, so far as this scale is concerned, between 

 States with and States without laws ; provided, that the insect has already 

 secured a foothold at this time. JOHN B. SMITH. 



Doings of Societies. 



A meeting of the Entomological Section of the Academy of 

 Natural Sciences of Philadelphia was held September 26th, 

 Mr. Chas. W. Johnson presiding. Fifteen members were pres- 

 ent and five visitors. Mr. Snyder exhibited specimens from 

 Nantucket representing three hours' work. Mr. Seiss spoke 

 of some odds and ends from Florida collected by Mr. Laurent. 

 Among them were some scorpions, the females of which made 

 nests of sand. The species was Garyphus floridensis. Mr. 

 Rhen spoke of a trip he had made, with two other gentlemen, 

 across the New Jersey pine barrens during June. He men- 

 tioned the capture of Neonympha arcolatus. Dr. Skinner gave 

 an account of his trip to New Mexico. Mr. C. W. Johnson 

 mentioned that Dr. Skinner had collected two specimens of 

 Cuterebra at Beulah, New Mexico, one of which was C". Icpi- 

 vora and the other not yet determined. Mr. Viereck exhibited 

 a living specimen of Tcnodera sincnsis 9 , and stated that the 

 males predominate, and are preyed upon by sparrows, which 

 do not attack the pugnacious female mantids. They eat cater- 

 pillars and grasshoppers. Mr. Rehn said they had no diffi- 

 culty in killing and eating Melanoplus differentialis. Mr. Horn- 

 ing stated that he had found the larva of I'\')icscia tarqidnins 



