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ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 



Published monthly (except July and August), in charge of the joint 

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PHILADELPHIA, PA., APRIL, 1897. 



GOVERNMENT ENTOMOLOGY. 



Under this title the New York Sim, of March n, 1897, has 

 the following editorial : 



One of the latest issues of the Government Printing House, the most 

 industrious publishing shop in the world, comes from the Division of En- 

 tomology of the Department of Agriculture, and describes "Some Mis- 

 cellaneous Results of the Work of the Division of Entomology." These 

 results, of singular importance to agriculture, include the larva? cells of a 

 species of Megachile or leaf-cutter bee, found in "a disused bed between 

 the sheet and quilt." All entomologists and farmers will rejoice to learn 

 that "an attempt will be made to rear the adult." An Age/ems film'niceus, 

 or red winged starling, has been seen, in some place not mentioned, 

 "busily engaged in eating the larvae of the cottonwood leaf ininero.'" It 

 is gratifying to know that the red winged starling has got work and is doing 

 it as heartily as if he were a Government entomologist. The Oreodcra 

 g/atica, or longicorn beetle, has been boring orange trees in Jamaica. Tlu- 

 Siloch't'pa paiiicea, more poetically known as the drug store beetle, is in 

 ihe quartermaster's depot at San Francisco, " damaging boots by boring 

 into the leather near the straps, where an excess of paste was used." 

 Bisulphide of carbon is prescribed for the suffering boot. The prohibition- 

 ists will be glad to learn Xyleborus pnlx-M ,'i/s and .\/<ia>ihnii ina/i are 

 lx iring into wine casks and causing leakage in Pomona, Fla., and Nickajack, 

 Ga., respectively. A red mite, beautifully named angelita, little angel, but 

 said to be a member of the Trointndinni nut^nicnin, is on view in Arizona. 

 A specimen of Bittacus pi/ocornis has attracted much attention in Brook- 

 vine, Ind., " on account of their efficiency in catching flies. August 26, 



