100 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



CORRESPONDENCE. 



THE HESSIAN FLY, JOINT WORM AND WHEAT MIDGE. 



Specimens of these destructive insects in all their stages of maggot 

 (larva), chrysalis (pupa) and fly, are earnestly desired by the under- 

 signed from all parts of the country, particularly the south and west, in 

 order that he may ascertain their distribution and study their natural 

 history, with reference to their ravages. Specimens may be sent alive in 

 stout paste-board boxes, or better, in tin boxes. The soft maggots should 

 be forwarded in vials containing cotton soaked in alcohol, by mail. It 

 may be remembered that the Hessian Fly and Joint Worm live near the 

 roots of the wheat plant, causing swellings in the stalk, while the Midge 

 lives in the ear. Accounts of these insects, with a map showing their 

 distribution in the United States, will soon be published by Hayden's 

 United States Geological Survey of the Territories, and extra copies of 

 the report may be obtained of the author. Address parcels containing 

 specimens and requests for the report to 



A. S. Packard, jr., Salem, Mass. 



I have great pleasure in informing you that a new Entomological 

 Society has been formed in this city, under the title of " The Long Island 

 Entomological Society." The following are the officers : — 



Rev. Geo. D. Hulst, President ; John Akhurst, Vice-President ; Thos. 

 Stearns, Treasurer ; P. Elbert Nostrand, Rec. Secretary; W. V. Andrews, 

 Cor. Secretary ; Fred. Baldwin, Librarian ; Chas. Leng, Curator. 



W. V. Andrews, Cor. Sec'y L. I. E. S., 



187 State St., Brooklyn, N. Y. 



I captured a Aleloe on the 17 th of April. I have also in two instances 

 this spring found a male Cicindela purpurea paired with a female C. vul- 

 garis. May not this sort of thing account for some of the remarkable 

 variations among the Cicindelida ? J. A. Moffat, Hamilton, Ont. 



Notes on " Fondness of Larvae for Water " would have appeared in 

 this issue, but we have mislaid the letter containing the name of our cor- 

 respondent. Would he kindly furnish it again ? — Ed. C. E. 



