160 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST 



APPOINTMENT OF STATE ENTOMOLOGIST FOR NEW YORK. 



We learn with much pleasure that our esteemed friend and valued 

 contributor, Mr. J. A. Lintner, of Albany, N. Y., has received the 

 appointment of State Entomologist. A better qualified man for the posi- 

 tion could not, we believe, be found. Mr. Lintner has for the past thirty 

 years devoted a large portion of his time to the study of Entomology, and 

 paid especial attention to that practical department of the science which 

 treats of insects injurious to agriculture. The enormous loss occasioned 

 yearly by destructive insects, is now well known, and every means discov- 

 ered to prevent or lessen these ravages, results in a large yearly gain to 

 the cultivators of the soil. The special business of the State Entomologist 

 will be to endeavor to ascertain how this desirable end can best be accom- 

 plished. We anticipate good results from this judicious appointment. 



CORRESPONDENCE. 



capture of a bi-formed lyc/ena. 

 Dear Sir, — 



On the 6th of June, 1S80, I took a bi-formed example of Lycasna 

 negfecta, one side of which had the coloration of the male, the other of 

 the female. It was a male, as appeared on exposing the genital organs. 



W. H. Edwards. 

 Coalburgh, Ma., June 18, 1880. 



Dear Sir, — 



Referring to some correspondence in the Entomologist for 1878, 



page 60, I beg to inform you that during the first week in July I 



found MelUcea phceton in considerable quantities in a small clearing in 



Dow's swamp, about one mile south of this city. The swamp is densely 



wooded with Tamarack and a thick undergrowth of Myrica gale, Salices, 



Alnus incana, &c, besides many herbaceous plants, and among them 



(but not at all plentiful) Chelone glabra. Upon enquiry, I find that 



this clearing was the exact locality where the late Mr. B. Billings found 



this Butterfly in 1870. 



J. Fletcher, Ottawa. 





