234 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [May, 'oS 



Notes and News. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL GLEANINGS PROM ALL QUARTERS 

 OF THE GLOBE. 



MISS EDITH PATCH, State Entomologist of Maine, has been spend- 

 ing a, few months at Cornell University. 



Ii is announced that Dr. Thos. H. Montgomery, Jr., of the Univer- 

 sity of Texas, has been called to the head of the Department of Zoology 

 of the University of Pennsylvania. 



PROF. M. V. SLINGERLAND, has just returned from Chicago, where he 

 has been investigating the inse.ct enemies of twine string, for the Mc- 

 Cormick Reaper & Binder Company. 



THE first number of the Annals of the Entomological Society of 

 America has appeared. It is a credit in every way to the Society and 

 the Editorial Board. If future numbers maintain the same standard of 

 excellence its future will be assured. 



DURING the past season two distinguished foreigners, Messrs Walter 

 Froggatt, Government Entomologist of New South Wales, and Dr. 

 Manuel J. Rivera, Entomologist of Chili, have visited various entomo- 

 logical centres in the United States. 



CHARLES ABBOTT DAVIS, curator of the Roger Williams Park Museum, 

 Providence, Rhode Island, died Jan. 28th. He was deeply interested 

 in entomology and published a number of papers on the subject, and 

 possessed a valuable collection of insects. 



THRIPS TABACI LIND. This insect has appeared in enormous numbers 

 on onions at Yuma, Arizona, a place where (as I learn from Prof. 

 R. H. Forbes) onions have not been grown before. I am indebted to 

 Mr. Crane, of Yuma, for specimens. T. D. A. COCKERELL. 



MR. E. P. VAN DuzEE, has left for a month's collecting trip to 

 Southern Florida. He wishes to look up the subtropical forms of 

 Hcmiptcra and will make as large collections as possible. His brother 

 M. C. Van Duzee will go as far as Jacksonville with him and collect 

 principally Hymcnoptera. 



WHILE collecting on Pnget Sound during the summer of '07 a num- 

 ber of mollusks were collected and cleaned. When unpacking the shells 

 on my return I found that a fly had oviposited in a number of the 

 shells, pupated and emerged, being held by the paper about the shells. 

 The specimen proved to be the blow fly Calliphora sp. 



The shells of Pterophytcs foliatus furnished the largest number of 

 flies but other shells had also harbored them. The shelter of the shell 

 and the food offered by the remains of the body of the mollusk which 

 had not been entirely removed had furnished a very satisfactory home 

 and diet to the flies. In most cases only a few flies had reached ma- 

 turity possibly because of inadequate food. J. W. HUNGATE. 



