420 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Nov., 'lO 



Notes and News. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL GLEANINGS FROM ALL QUARTERS 

 OF THE GLOBE. 



FOLSOM'S "ENTOMOLOGY" has just appeared in a Japanese transla- 

 tion made by Professors Miyake and Uchida of Tokyo. We are glad 

 to note the great appreciation of the entomological work done by 

 Americans. 



PROF. E. DVVIGHT SANDERSON has been appointed Dean of the 

 College of Agriculture of West Virginia, at Morgantown. He is the 

 Business Manager of The Journal of Economic Entomology and all 

 subscriptions and advertisements should be sent to his new address. 



PONERA OPACICEPS IN COLORADO. Last March my wife and I were 

 rather surprised to find a Ponerine ant on Flagstaff mountain, Bouldei, 

 Colorado, this being the first member of the group observed in this 

 region. Dr. Wheeler kindly determined it as P. opacipcs Forel, new 

 to Colorado, but common to Texas. The only Ponera Dr. Wheeler 

 ever took in Colorado was a single example of P. inexorata Wheeler, 

 near Colorado Springs. T. D. A. COCKERELL. 



A NEW HUMAN TRYPANOSOMIASIS CONVEYED BY INSECTS. Dr. C. 

 Chagas has an article, in German, on this topic, in the first volume of 

 the Meinorias do Instituto Oszvaldo Cruz, Rio Janeiro, 1900. according 

 to a note by Nathan Banks, in Science for July I, 1910. "This disease 

 is similar to the African sleeping sickness, and is considered to be 

 transmitted by certain blood-sucking reduvids bugs, especially Coiw- 

 rhinns megistus Burm. A small species of monkey, Callithrix pcn- 

 cillata. is thought to be the reservoir of the disease." 



Phalangiuin longipalpis, Weed, in New York: This species was de- 

 scribed by Weed from specimens collected in Arkansas. Since that 

 time no further captures of this large and striking Phalangid have been 

 recorded, except a single male taken at Carlton Station, N. Y., in July, 

 1906, and reported in the NEWS, XVIII, p. 161. 



In September, 1909, I spent a week at a farm near Hamburg, N. Y. 

 and was surprised to find this species abundant there on the trunks of 

 fruit trees on the lawn. Males, females and young of various size. 8 

 were found. Again in September, 1910, I collected them in numbers a1 

 Plattsburg, N. Y., on the shore of Lake Champlain. where they were 

 found under boards in a lumber yard and on the trunks of shade trees 

 at the barracks. On September i6th, I collected an adult male on a 

 tree trunk at Syracuse, N. Y., and on the igth I found both sexes on 

 fence posts at Stanley, Ontario Co., N. Y. In fact it has been the most 

 abundant species collected during September. C. R. CROSBY. 



