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CATOCALA DULCIALA, described by Grote, was collected by Dr. M. 

 G. Conklin, of Dayton, Ohio, and not by me. G. R. PILATE, Loma 

 Linda, California. 



IMPROVED METHODS OF PHOTOGRAPHING the tunnels of bark-beetles 

 are suggested in a German translation from the Russian of P. Wino- 

 gradoff, in Entomologische Blatter, VII, pp. 146-147, 1911. 



MR, ROBERT NEWSTEAD, lecturer in economic entomology and parasi- 

 tology in the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine has been appoint- 

 ed to the newly-established Dutton Memorial Chair of Entomology 

 in the University of Liverpool. Science. 



BOOK-DESTROYING INSECTS. An exhibition of books collected from 

 different parts of the world by William R. Reinick, of the Free 

 Library of Philadelphia, showing the various ways in which they 

 are destroyed by insect life, was held in the library of the University 

 of Pennsylvania, Thirty-fourth and Locust streets, for two weeks 

 commencing July 28, 1911. Mr. Reinick also delivered an illustrated 

 lecture upon "Insects Destructive to Books" in the lecture hall of 

 Houston Hall, of the same university, on July 28. 



HONORARY DEGREES conferred on Entomologists. On June 14, 1911, 

 the University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, conferred the degree 

 of doctor of science on Dr. Henry Skinner, Editor Emeritus of the 

 NEWS. A few days later, The George Washington University, of 

 Washington, gave to Dr. L. O. Howard, Chief of the U. S. Bureau 

 of Entomology, the honorary degree of doctor of medicine, for "dis- 

 tinguished services to science in relation to preventive medicine." 



MYRIADS OF MOTHS. Kensington, (Philadelphia) was invaded last 

 night (July 9, 1911) by myriads of a small species of moth or "mil- 

 ler," which swarmed in the streets and stores so thickly that business 

 and even traffic was for a time suspended. 



They flew so thickly in the streets that hundreds of pedestrians 

 took refuge in the stores along Kensington and Frankford avenues 

 and the streets running between them. They then began to fly into 

 the stores, and at the lights, so that merchants had to close their 

 doors and discontinue business while they secured brooms and swept 

 out the dead ones. 



In many places the sidewalks were covered to the depth of an 

 inch for a block or more, and by getting into the eyes, nostrils, ears 

 and mouths of pedestrians the little "millers" almost completely 

 stopped traffic. 



A Second and Ritner streets trolley car was completely held up. 

 Without any notice a vast company of the "millers" swarmed through 

 the open window on the front platform, blinding and choking the 

 motorman, and doing the same for the passengers and conductor. 



