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of Melanolestes picipe*, who has proven himself too much for 

 their sensationalism. 



The following species have been brought to the Academy of 

 Natural Sciences of Philadelphia as the " kissing bug " : 

 Diptera. Tabanus sp.; Erax bastardi. 

 Hymenoptera. Camponotus pennsylvanicus (queen) ; Thal- 



ass(( lun-ator ; Tremex columbasericeus. 

 Lepidoptera. Scepsis fulvicollis. 

 Neuroptera. Perla Jiavescens ; Corydalus cormttus. 

 Coleoptera. Orthosoma brunnea; Phytonomus punctatus; 

 Monohammus titillator ; Alaus ocidatus ; Harpalus caligino- 

 sus ; H. pennsylvanicus ; H. sp. ; Tenebrio molitor ; Creop- 

 Mliii villow-t: Eaphid'wn sp. Balaninus quercus. 

 Hemiptera. Benacus yriwus ; Prionidus cristatus ; Peiifn 



toma xp. 



Many of the foregoing were brought in several times by dif- 

 ferent persons. W. J. F. 



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INCREASE OR DECREASE OF DRAGON-FLIES? [Our quotation iu 

 the June NEWS, page 188, from Prof. Kellicott aud Mr. Mines' 

 " Odonata, of Ohio," has produced the following :] 



" Do you think Prof. Kellicott's re marks a bout the increase in the 

 number of species for the State of Ohio altogether correct ? Such 

 observations are hard to make Butterflies aud other insects, as all 

 collectors have observed, 'will have llieir years' A frieud in 

 Beaver county during 25 years observation found Junoniacceiiiu 

 only one season when it was very common. Dr Holland, during 

 20 years, never saw Melitoea phaeton in this country, but a few days 

 ago I took about 15 specimens. Last season on July 4 visited an 

 old gravel pit neir Blufftou, and there took 21 spp. of Odonata- 

 On July 5 I visited the same pond at the same time 

 of day ; the weather was as nearly like the preceding day 

 as two consecutive mid-summer days can be, aud yet I found only 

 about a dozen spp Tramea lacerata and onnxta were numerous on 

 the fourth, but were not seen on the fifth. 1 have, as a boy, seen the 

 Wabash flowing iike a silver ribbon between its blue grass-clothed 

 bauks,its waters teeming with fish aud its ripples alive with Uuion- 

 id$e. Last summer I walked along mud flats by as foul smelling 

 pools as could be imagined for miles lain sure there isn't a live 

 Uuio. I siw black bass come to the surface, gasp and float, belly up, 

 down stream. Even old slimy Neciurus crawled out on the laud to 

 die, and their bodies lay along the banks of the river by dozens. 

 Certainly it is an a priori argument that the Odonata are perishing 

 when sunvmnde.1 bv sucn con liti >u< E . B. WILLIAMSON. 



