Feb., '08] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 79 



Notes and. News. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL GLEANINGS FROM ALL QUARTERS 

 OP THE GLOBE. 



I SEND you the record of the capture of a specimen of Calpodes elhliits 

 Cramer. This insect was once taken at West Farms, N. Y., about 40 

 years ago, I believe. The specimen referred to was taken by me herein 

 Washington, D. C., over a bed of Canna on September 19, 1903. CHAS. 

 R. ELY. 



MR. O. W. BARRETT is back in the Bureau of Plant Industry of the 

 U. S. D. A., after a very pleasant summer and autumn among the cacao 

 plantations of Trinidad, B. W. I., in the study of cacao pests and diseases 

 for the Agricultural Society of Trinidad and Tobago. 



IF Mr. Paul is correctly quoted, we would like to suggest that some of 

 the wealthy society butterflies contribute a fund toward the promulgation 

 of elementary knowledge about the metamorphoses of insects. The 

 price of one of these swell balls would create a fund to perpetuate this 

 journal for all time, whereas the ball lasts but a few hours. Of course, 

 the price given in the newspaper account is greatly exaggerated: 



" 'A lie. The whole story of the live butterflies being loosed at the 

 ball which I gave in Horticultural Hall is a lie. It is made out of the 

 whole cloth and there is nothing whatever to it.' 



" In this wise did James W. Paul, Jr., emphatically stamp this story, 

 which appeared first in Philadelphia and later in papers throughout the 

 country, and which has occasioned not only amusement but indignation 

 in some quarters here. 



"'It is absurd to think of such a thing being done,' continued Mr. 

 Paul, ' for if butterflies had been sent from such distant parts as those 

 ridiculous stories had it they would have been transformed into laiv;c 

 and caterpillars before their arrival here. It is all absolutely untrue.' 



" Word came echoing back from New York yesterday that ' 15,000 

 educated butterflies had blazed the way for Miss Mary Astor Paul's en- 

 trance to society, and the entire ball cost $100.000.' 



"Another account had it that 'the piece de resistance came when, at 

 the height of the festivities, 500 beautiful butterflies, gathered from all 

 corners of the earth, were released over the heads of the magnificently 

 gowned and jeweled women and the bravely dressed men who had gath- 

 ered as Mr. Paul's guests.' ' 



A NEW PUBLICATION, THE JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY, 

 official organ of the Association of Economic Entomologists. Editor, 

 E. Porter Felt, Albany, N. Y, State Entomologist, New York; Associate 

 Editor, A. F. Burgess, Washington, I). C., Secretary Association Eco- 

 nomic Entomologists; Business Manager, E. Dwight Sanderson, Dur- 

 ham N. H., Director N. H. Agricultural Experiment Station; Advertising 



