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ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 



locked door iu the train. One of the guards heard the door open. 

 shouted just too late, but rushed up in time to drag the man out by 

 the heels. Fortunately the gas was largely spent, but. although the 

 man was a stalwart Kafir the effects of the short exposure \ver-: 

 such as to thoroughly frighten all who saw him. Xow the opera- 

 tors employed at the railway are exceptionally careful workmen, in 

 fact they were selected largely because of habitual prudence, and 

 this near approach to an accident simply illustrates how with what 

 appears all necessary precautions there is a grave element of risk in 

 such operations. The doors to the carriages are ordinarily locked 

 the key holes plugged, but at the last moment something was found 

 to be defecti ve with the lock of the door in questio u, and the watch- 

 men chanced to be facing another way as the bare footed native 

 came up. Might not an analagous circumstance occasionally hap- 

 pen in mills and houses, where at the best the risks are immensely 

 greater? It is not as if there were no alternative measures applic- 

 able for granary aud house insects and to me it seems a plain case 

 of prudence dictating to let well enough alone. Hydrocyanic acid 

 gas for orchard fumigation and for the disinfection of nursery stock 

 iu specially devised buildings is right enough, as it is also under 

 proper precautions for the treatment of railway carriages that must 

 be put into use again within a few hours, but to encourage its gen- 

 eral use in closed buildings seems going to far. If to be used at all 

 indwelling's, granaries and the like 1 think that all of the opera- 

 tions should be under the personal superintendence of a responsible 

 party licensed by law. We have had no accident in the colony in 

 three years' work with the gas in special chambers and in the or- 

 chard, but when disinfecting a tew rooms at a boarding school one 

 of the orchard operatoi'S gave himself and several others violent 

 headache and nausea- One after another he told me he had to give 

 up and go lay down. The bad effects were all the result of ill-con- 

 sidered procedure, but if an experienced fumigator makes mistake-; 

 in judgment what might not be expected from an ignoront be- 



CHAS. P. Loi NSHIKV. 

 Tnii',1. Smith Afn'ctt, October l<>. 189!). 



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NOT K on Telea polyphemus-Cr*, etc Since it appears that '/'. 

 /Ki/tf/t/iciitn*- (Y. has not been reported troin Mexico 1 wish to put 

 on record here the capture of a j by Prof. Luis Murillo at Jalapa. 

 V. O.. this month (April). AV/c/r.v ///^r/vW/.s- Drury has come to 

 stay though still very rare in t 'uernavaca, Mor .and in Jalapa, V. C. 

 And Actias lima L. is getting settled at Jalapa and ?) Orizaba, 

 V . ('. Although the last two moths are reported in the Biologia ) 

 C. A., Prof. Murillo declares they have been in evidence in Jalapa. 

 for only two or three years The city is almost entirely shutout 

 from the north and at an elevation of :>,t>o<> feet. 



O. AV. BAKKKTT, Museo, Tacubaya.U. F., Mexico. 



