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"The young miner dropped in a quarter. Billy looked at it ; then 

 putting his hand under his coat-tails drew his revolver and said, with the 

 utmost gravity, ' Young man, take that back; this here's a dollar show.' 

 Then, with his hat and revolver, moving around the hall, he got as many 

 dollars as there were people." 



We hope it won't be necessary to employ Billy to collect NEWS sub- 

 scriptions for the coming year. EDS. 



DISTRIBUTION OF THE ODONATA. In the NEWS for October, Mr. Cal- 

 vert published a list of Dragonflies taken at Wood's Holl, Mass. In July, 

 1893, the following species, not included in his list, were captured by 

 myself at that place : Lestes eurina Say, Libelhila vibrans Kirby, L. 

 cyanea Fabr. and Somatochlora lepida Hag. D. S. K., Columbus, O. 



IN Sweden the peasants look upon the grub of the Cockchafer, Melo 

 lontha vulgaris, as furnishing an unfailing prognostic whether the ensuing 

 Winter will be mild or severe; if the animal have a bluish hue (a circum-" 

 stance which arises from its being replete with food), they affirm it will be 

 mild, but on the contrary if it be white, the weather will be severe; and 

 they carry this so far as to foretell, that if the anterior be white and the 

 posterior blue, the cold will be most severe at the beginning of the Winter. 

 Hence they call this grub Bemarkelse-mask prognostic worm. Cowan 's 

 Curious Facts. 



THE WHITE ANT AGAIN. Many instances of the destructiveness of 

 Termes flavipes have been reported in the last few years. I am able to 

 add another of interest. Last June the heavy posts and timbers support- 

 ing machinery in the Electrical Building of the Ohio State University 

 began to give away, and an examination proved what was unsuspected, 

 viz., that they were completely riddled by this insect, and were replaced 

 by new. The supports rested upon " cement" below an "asphalt" floor 

 in a brick building, and whilst the insect is abundant enough in rubbish 

 not far away, it would appear probable that the ants were in the wood 

 when it was brought into use about four years previously, and that they 

 had pursued their work unnoticed until it was complete. D. S. K., Co- 

 lumbus, O. 



I THINK we may, with propriety, add Philampelus licaon to our North 

 American list of Lepidoptera. Prof. H. A. Morgan, of Louisiana State 

 University at Baton Rouge, has sent me a male and female of this species 

 this Summer. Mr. Neumoegen also tells me that he has received it from 

 Louisiana, and that the late Henry Edwards had one or more specimens 

 from Florida. The contention that trade winds bring these insects across 

 the Gulf should not exclude species from our list when females are found 

 here. For even though originally the importation may be thus brought 

 about, there is little doubt that females would deposit eggs when once 

 landed. I have also to report the capture of COSSHS centercnsis 9 at 

 Manchester, N. H., this Summer. I have not heard of it from that State 

 before. R. OTTOLENGUI. 



