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Notes and. Ne\vs. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL GLEANINGS FROM ALL QUARTERS 

 OF THE GLOBE. 



Photographs received for the Album of the American Entomo- 



logical Society. 



During the year 1914 photographs for the album were received 

 from the following persons, and the members of the Society wish 

 again to thank the donors for their much appreciated gifts : E. D. 

 Ball, E. W. Beyer, J. C. Crawford, N. Griddle, L. G. Esson, C. T. 

 Greene, W. D. Kearfott, W. W. Newcomb, A. F. Porter, S. A. Roh- 

 wer, Mrs. P. R. Uhler, A. C. Watson, J. B. Watson, T. N. Willing. 



The Occurrence of Pediculopsis graminum Reuter and the Car- 



nation Bud-Rot in New Jersey (Acar.) 



During the fall of 1914 carnation buds in several greenhouses in 

 northern New Jersey were observed to be deformed and somewhat 

 lop-sided. Upon cutting them open the interior was found to be de- 

 cayed and contained as a rule one or more female mites with greatly 

 distended bodies. White varieties of carnations seemed to suffer the 

 most. According to Stewart and Hodgkiss, the rot is caused by a 

 species of fungus (Sporotrichum poae) which also causes the silver 

 top of June grass and the mite has been found accompanying the dis- 

 ease in both cases. It appears that the mites bearing the disease spores 

 are carried into the house in summer in the soil and enter the im- 

 mature flower buds as soon as they appear. The spores therefore find 

 a favorable place in which to develop and decay finally sets in. Treat- 

 ment consists in promptly picking and burning all infested buds. Ac- 

 counts of this trouble can be found in Tech. Bull. No. 7, N. Y. Agric. 

 Exp. Sta., Bull. No. 103, Neb. Agric. Exp. Sta., and the 27th Report 

 of State Entomologist of Illinois. HARRY B. WEISS, New Brunswick, 



N. J. 



An Insect's Femur as a Fish Hook (Orth.). 



A curious use is made of the spine on the hind femur of the 

 Phasmid, Eurycantha latro, by the natives in the hill-villages of north- 

 ern Goodenough Islands, near New Guinea. The femur is strung on 

 the end of a fishing line, so that the recurved spine will act as a fish- 

 hook barb. [See H. Balfour's article and illustration in Man, Feb.. 



Proposed Entomological Work in Porto Rico. 



Professor John II. Gerould, of Dartmouth College, Hanover, New 

 Hampshire, expects to go to Porto Rico with Dr. A. G. Mayer's party 

 on May 15, returning to New York, June 21, to study the Lepidoptera 

 and other insects of the island with a view to undertaking breeding 

 experiments upon stock from the tropics. 



