March, '08] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 141 



We give some examples of the different processes and kinds 

 of plates: 



Plate V, Feb. '08, is a half-tone. 



Plate I, Jan. '08, is a mixed plate, Fig. B, being a half-tone, 

 had to be inserted ; the other figures are line engravings. 



Plate II and III, Jan. '08, are line engravings. 



Plate XIII, Oct. '07, is a routed or outlined half-tone. 



Plates XV and XVI, Dec. '07, are line engravings. 



Notes and. Ne\vs. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL, GLEANINGS FROM ALL QUARTERS 

 OF THE GLOBE. 



PROF. JOHN B. SMITH is getting some very interesting points for 

 his paper on Homoptera. The older species have been badly mixed in 

 collections. Anyone having material should send it to him. 



Digby, February 5, 1908. 



IN ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS you sometimes refer to 'hanging co- 

 coons of polyphcmus. I have found about thirty of these this winter, 

 a few on low blueberry, and the rest on birch. When on the birch 

 the cocoon was always at the very tip of the twig, and was enwrapped 

 by the three or four end leaves. The silk was spun up the stems of 

 the leaves and then around the twig, but so little was used that a slight 

 pull or a sharp shake would bring the cocoon off. When on blueberry 

 it was surrounded by leaves and generally attached to two or three of 

 the upright twigs. Tn no cases were the cocoons more than a foot 

 from the ground. JOHN RUSSELL, Digby, N. S. 



AN INTERESTING letter has been received from the Rev. Henry C. 

 McCook, D. D., dated Brookcamp, Devon, Pa. 



"I have been ill in bed for five weeks and am just beginning to get 

 about. I did not see until now the honor which had been conferred 

 upon me by the newly formed society of American entomologists in 

 electing me an Honorary Fellow. I appreciate the honor and now beg 

 through you to return cordial thanks for the same. At my advanced 

 age and in my state of health no serious original work is possible. 

 The future, which is most promising, is with younger entomologists, 

 and they seem to be measuring well up to their opportunities. Yet 



