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That Colorado may mean snowy peaks, mountain forests or valleys, or 

 level treeless plains, each presenting a distinct fauna of its own," Also 

 we frequently depend on data for additional specimens, but if we have 

 no such date we are at a loss. A number of times we have directed col- 

 lectors how to get good things by looking up the data, but in many case^ 

 this could not be done as the author or the original collector was satisfied 

 with giving the insect as found in Texas for instance (area 274,356 square 

 miles), or in many cases the locality label was only " rhundus." 



THE latest album of the American Entomological Society, contains the 

 pictures of D. S. Kellicott, J. B\ Lembert, F. E. Blaisdell, W. R. Reinicke, 

 G. B. King, J. L. Hancock, Edw. Norton, P. P. Calvert, A. J. Snyder, 

 B. Neumoegen, W. B. Alwood, Wm. Grey, O. S. Westcott, C. H. T. 

 Townsend, W. A. Nason, Herman Aich, F. Rauterberg, and room for 

 more. 



IN a recent letter, Mr. Wm. Schaus states that Mr. Herbert Druce in- 

 formed him that he had lately received several specimens of Eudryas 

 Stae Johcinnis Walker, from Mexico. This will be of interest to American 

 Entomologists. 



MOUFFET, referring to Feas, makes the following observations: "The 

 lesser, leaner and younger they are, the sharper they bite ; the fat ones 

 being more inclined to tickle and play; and then are not the least plague, 

 especially when in greater numbers, since they molest men that are sleeping 

 and trouble wearied and sick persons, from whom they escape by skipping; 

 for as soon as they find they are arraigned to die, and feel the finger com- 

 ing, on a sudden they are gone, and leap here and there, and so escape 

 the danger; but so soon as day breaks, they forsake the bed. They then 

 creep into the rough blankets, or hide themselves in rushes and dust, lying 

 in ambush for pigeons, hens and other birds, also for men and dogs, moles 

 and mice, and vex such as passe by." -Theatre of Insects, p. 102. 



AT a time when there were great swarms of Locusts in China, as we 

 learn from Navarette, the Emperor went out into his gardens, and taking 

 up some of these insects in his hands, thus spoke to them: The people 

 maintain themselves on wheat, rice, etc. ; you come to devour and destroy 

 it, without leaving anything behind; it were better you should devour my 

 bowels than the food of my subjects. Having concluded his speech, the 

 monarch was about to put them in a fair way of " devouring his bowels" 

 by swallowing them, when some that stood by telling him they were 

 venomous, he nobly answered, "I value not my life when it is for the good 

 of my subjects and people to lose it," and immediately swallowed the 

 insects. History tells us the locusts that very moment took wing, and went 

 off without doing any more damage ; but whether or not the heroic Em- 

 peror recovered, leaves us in ignorance. Cowan's Curious Facts. 



