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PENTACANTHA IN NEW YORK. Mr. R. H. Pettit has taken 

 two males of ^L. pentacantha Ramb. at Baldwinsville, Onondaga County, 

 N. Y., in June. The species was previously known, I believe, only from 

 Texas, Louisiana and southern Illinois. N. BANKS. 



AN EARLY SUGGESTION OF A MODERN PLAN. The appointment of Mr. 

 Albert Koebele by the Hawaiian government for the purpose of collect- 

 ing and bringing to Hawaii beneficial insects which will prey upon injuri- 

 ous species, referred to in a recent number of. " Insect Life," was the 

 direct outcome of the success of certain recent experiments in this direc- 

 tion. The idea of the employment of predatory and predacous species 

 in this way is an old one, but just how old we hardly realized until we saw 

 in the " Entomologist's Record" for August, 1894, a little review by F. J. 

 Buckell, of Linnaeus' " Amcenitates Academicae," which, though bearing 

 the name of Linnaeus, was written by one of his pupils, Andrew John 

 Bladh. In this "entomological antique," as Mr. Buckell calls it, the 

 following suggestion is made : "If we understood how to apply insects 

 properly, we might use them as we do cats against mice, and by attending 

 to the design of Nature, prevent much damage." 



THE timely suggestion in the February NEWS with reference to the 

 erection of a monument to Thomas Say in Philadelphia is a most ex- 

 cellent one, and to some extent anticipates another which I had intended 

 to make on closing the Say sketches. It would, it seems to me, be a 

 very proper thing to do if the entomologists of America were to donate a 

 trifle each and erect a neat iron fence about the resting-place of Say at 

 New Harmony. The present owner of the premises, Mrs. Richard Owen 

 and her sons, I am very sure, would be more than pleased to grant per- 

 mission for its erection. A very small amount contributed by each ento- 

 mologist would suffice to erect a substantial and appropriate iron fence, 

 enclosing an area of 20 x 24 feet. I can, if desired, secure permission for 

 erection, and get estimates of cost of same and erection, I would sug- 

 gest that the editor and associate editor of the NEWS, the editors of 

 " Psyche" and the " Canadian Entomologist" be considered a committee 

 to receive (and solicit if necessary) funds for this purpose. 



F. M. \YEBSTER. 



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