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from the same cage, I bred another specimen, a male, which is certainly 

 different from typical males of Habrobracon hebetor. It differs markedly 

 in several particulars number of joints in antennae, its more elongated 

 form, much smaller size, and in color; but until the opposite sex is bred, 

 Mr. Ashmead thinks it would be better to consider it only a variety of 

 hebetor. W. G. JOHNSON, Urbana, 111. 



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COCCIDOLOGICAL ITEMS. Ddcfylopius iceryoides and Ctenochiton per- 

 foratus have been entered doubtfully in our lists, on the strength of their 

 alleged introduction in California; vide "Insect Life," 1893, p. 282, 

 "Canadian Entomologist," 1894, p. 34. The identifications appear to 

 have been made by Mr. Craw. Mr. Maskell now writes me that he has 

 received specimens of the forms so recorded, and finds that the supposed 

 D. iceryoides is really D. anrilanatus Maskell, while the so-called Cteno- 

 chiton does not belong to that genus. 



Gossyparia u/ini is sent to me in some quantity by Prof. G. C. Davis, 

 who finds it at the Michigan Agricultural College on elm, " covering the 

 under side of all the large limbs," and scattered on all of the smaller 

 limbs. The elms on which it is at work are quite large trees, he adds. 



In " Insect Life," last year, Prof. Davis reported a supposed new genus 

 of Dactylopiini on palms in the hot-house of the Michigan Agricultural 

 College. Mr. Howard was so kind as to forward me some of this mate- 

 rial, and I have identified it as Dacfyfopius >tiptr Maskell, a neotropical 

 insect. It is an aberrant Dac/y/opins, and may form the type of a m-u 

 genus one of these days. T. D. A. COCKEKELL. 



A REMARKABLE phenomena is recorded to have occurred in Ireland in 

 the Summer of 1688. The cock-chafers {Melolontha}, in this instance, 

 were in such immense numbers, "that when," as the chronicler, Dr. 

 Molyneux, relates, " towards evening or sunset they would arise, disperse 

 and fly about, with a strange humming noise, much like the beating of 

 drums at some distance; and in such vast incredible numbers, that they 



