May, '08] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 235 



ODONATAfrom the Huachua Mts., Arizona. The two species of Argia 

 mentioned in the list on page 45 of the NEWS for Jan., 1908, are A. tonto 

 Calv., and A. vivida, \ar.plana, Calv. P. P. CALVERT. 



ON A DROLL STORY OF A GERMAN SCHOOLMASTER AND A U. S. A. 

 MAJOR. BY DR. WALTHER HORN (Berlin). There was once a thin 

 little schoolmaster in Germany, called " W. H." He was little and thin, 

 as generally German schoolmasters are. 



There was once also a large, big major in the U. S. A. named "Th. 

 L. C.," an important fellow a real Major. 



The Major went out early in January, 1908, to fight against the school- 

 master. 



The schoolmaster got awfully frightened. Poor little schoolmaster, 

 what could he do? 



The schoolmaster tried to write an epistle against the furious Major, 

 but as often as he began to write "Th. L. C.," he wrote "Mo. T. Sch." 

 his "sense of intellectual perception" was really "very feebly devel- 

 oped." Finally he got an idea : he went out to catch two different grass- 

 hoppers, put each one in a separate glass, labeled them carefully "Th. 

 L. C."and "Mo. T. Sch.," thinking that will help his memory to facilitate 

 the distinction. Really the epistle advanced ; but, alas, the next morning 

 came, "Th. L. C." had moulted and looked now like "Mo. T. Sch." 



Poor little schoolmaster, how were you taken in again ! 



There was still a little schoolboy named "H. R. ;" clever in every- 

 thing, only he had never succeeded in differentiating a positive from a 

 comparative. He saw his master's sorrow. 



" Master, what's the matter? " 



The master told his bad story. 



"Can I see the two grasshoppers, master?" 



"Yes, my little boy, here they are." 



" How are the mouth-parts of them, master? " 



"Just the same!" 



" And the claws "? 



"One like the other!" 



" How do the bugs spring, master ? " 



" Absolutely the same behavior ! " 



"Well," said the clever boy, "the bugs are really the same, only 

 " Casey" should be perhaps the comparative of " Motschoulsky." 



EFFECT OF THE PARASITISM OF TACHINA FIJES ON THE LARVAE OF 

 Phlcgctlwntius se.rta JOHANSSEN. At Paris, Texas, on September 6th, 

 1904, I found a nearly fullgrown larva of this species hanging head 

 down from a tomato plant in a garden, the anal prolcgs holding it. 

 The body was limp, shrunken and decomposed, and literally full of the 

 grubs of some tachina fly. Afterwards the body hardened and became 

 brittle, finally cracking along one side, through which the maggots 

 worked their way out. Eleven of them pupated on the surface of the 



