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colored lantern slides. Thursdays at 8 P. M. February 16 : Lepidop- 

 tera, Butterflies and Moths; their life histories, habits, transformations 

 and distribution. February 23 : Economic Entomology : Insects of the 

 Household and the Farm ; Crop and Fruit-tree Pests ; the San Jose 

 scale, gypsy moth, brown-tail moth, tussock moth and other shade-tree 

 pests. March 2 : The Social Insects or Hymenoptera, Bees, Wasps and 

 Ants; their habits, architecture and communities. March 9: Insects 

 and Disease. Parasitism. Ticks and mites in relation to Texas fever, 

 spotted fever and relapsing fever. Horse-flies, stable-flies, punkies, 

 blow-flies, jigger-fleas, bed-bugs. House-flies in relation to typhoid 

 fever and tuberculosis. March 16 : Insects and Disease. Mosquitoes, 

 their life history ; mosquitoes in relation to malaria, yellow fever and 

 filaria. Sleeping sickness and the tsetse fly. Some tropical diseases 

 transmitted by insects. 



Animal Coloration and Its Significance in Evolution. By J. Percy 

 Moore. Illustrated by lantern slides. Thursdays at 8 P. M. March 

 23 : Physical and Physiological Basis of Animal Color. Color in Rela- 

 tion to Function and Environment. Color Patterns. March 30: Non- 

 adaptive and Adaptive Coloration. Types of Adaptive or Useful Col- 

 oration. April 6: Concealing Coloration. April 13: Warning Colors. 

 Mimicry, etc. Changeable Colors. Dichromatism and Related Phe- 

 nomena. April 20 : Behavior of Color in Heredity. Conclusion. 



HAS anyone had any experience with gas lamps used for attracting 

 moths? I am thinking of buying a 2,ooo-candlepower gasoline lamp to 

 use in catching moths. A friend of mine in Chicago thinks a gas lamp 

 will not attract moths, at least not nearly so many as an electric or 

 kerosene lamp will do. He claims the light is too white. I am an- 

 xious to hear from someone who has had actual experience. A. F. 

 PORTER, Decorah, Iowa. 



Entomological Literature. 



COMPILED BY E. T. CRESSON, JR.. AND J. A. G. REHN. 



Under the above head it is intended to note papers received at the 

 Academy of Natural Sciences, of Philadelphia, pertaining to the En- 

 tomology of the Americas (North and South), excluding Arachnida and 

 Myriapoda. Articles irrelevant to American entomology will not be noted; 

 but contributions to anatomy, physiology and embryology of insects, how- 

 ever, whether relating to American or exotic species, will be recorded. 

 The numbers in Heavy- Faced Type refer to the journals, as numbered 

 in the following list, in which the papers are published, and are all 

 dated the current year unless otherwise noted. This (*) following a 

 record, denotes that the paper in question contains description of a new 

 North American form. 



For record of Economic Literature, see the Experiment Station Record, 

 Office of Experiment Stations, Washington. 



2 Transactions, American Entomological Society, Philadelphia. 

 4 The Canadian Entomologist. 5 Psyche, Cambridge. Mass. 6 

 Journal, New York Entomological Society. 1 U. S. Department 

 of Agriculture, Bureau of Entomology. 11 Annals and Magazine 

 of Natural History, London. 16 Bulletin, Societe Nationale d'Ac- 



