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Notes and News. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL GLEANINGS FROM ALL QUARTERS 

 OF THE GLOBE. 



THE RECENT CLASSIFICATIONS OP COLEOPTERA of Lameere, Gangl- 

 bauer and Kolbe, not hitherto discussed in English, are described in 

 articles by Mr. C. J. Gahan, beginning in the Entomologist for April, 

 1911. 



CHIRONOMID LARVAE PARASITIC WITHIN SNAILS. Mr. K. H. Barnard 

 reports, in The Entomologists' Monthly Magazine for March and 

 April, 1911, the finding of living, mottled green and red Chironomid 

 larvae in the mantel and mantel cavity of the snail, Limnaea peregra, 

 in the fountains in Trafalgar Square, London. He observed a larva 

 entering the pulmonary orifice of the snail. The presence of these para- 

 sites "inconveniences the host," resulting in some cases at least in its 

 death, but apparently not producing dwarfing or deformity. 



WE regret to learn that "Arcadia" at Sound Beach, Connecticut, 

 the home and laboratory of Mr. Edward F. Bigelow, President of 

 the Agassiz Association and Editor of The Guide to Nature, must 

 be vacated and that Mr. Bigelow is obliged to seek quarters else- 

 where. The Agassiz Association, under the presidency of Mr. Har- 

 lan H. Ballard, did a great work in interesting the young people of 

 America in natural history in our own youth and Mr. Bigelow de- 

 serves aid and encouragement in his endeavors to continue his pre- 

 decessor's beneficial labors. A fund, amounting on June 8, 1911, to 

 $826.75, has been started for a new Arcadia, and we wish it and our 

 contemporary Guide every success. 



PLUSIOTIS BEYERI SKINNER. This elegant beetle, described by Dr. 

 Skinner from the Huachuca mountains of Cochise County, Arizona, 

 appears to be abundant in northern Sonora, Mexico. Mr. J. R. Has- 

 kins, of Los Angeles, has recently given me a small series from Cananea, 

 where he reports it to be common about arc lights. His specimens 

 were taken July 18, 19, 1910, near the Chivatena (Sheep Herder) 

 Mine, at an elevation of about 5,000 feet. He also took a few lecontei 

 and gloriosa. Mr. Haskins is not a coleopterist, and collected the speci- 

 mens only on account of their beauty. No doubt a coleopterological 

 collector visiting the lights there at the proper season could reap a 

 rich harvest. I took a few beyeri in the Huachucas this last season, 

 one the first day of June and others up to July 26, but they were few 

 and far between. There seems to be no established rule as to obtain- 

 ing them. I have taken examples at light and others flying at mid-day 

 in the hot sunshine. Not a few deceased but mutilated remains were 



