Oct., '03] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 275 



A SLIGHT DIFFERENCE The Frenchman did not know all about the 

 English language. 



"I vould like to come see you ver' much. In fact, I vould have came, 

 only I thought you vere ver' busy. I do not like to cockroach upon 

 your time." 



"Not 'cockroach,' that's not right. You should say 'encroach, en- 

 croach.' " 



" Aha, that is it, ' hencroach, hencroach.' I see, I have got de gender 

 of de verb wrong." 



THE KISSING BUG OUTDONE. Dangerous Bug from a Bog Bite of 

 Insect Causes Insanity of a Young Polish Farmer. A dispatch to the 

 Chicago Inter-Ocean from Mindon, Mich., says: 



Oscar Newsasaki, a young Polish farmer near here, has become insane 

 as the result of a bite by a bug. The day after he was bitten his body 

 began to swell, and physicians have been unable to give him relief. 



Professor P. E. Olinberg, an entomologist of Wheeling, W. Va., came 

 here, at the request of the National Museum at Washington, to procure 

 specimens of the bug. He found a nest of the insects in a bog near 

 Newsasaki's home, and while trying to capture one was bitten on the 

 chin, and within an hour was in a semi-conscious condition. He does 

 not show the symptoms of insanity that appeared in Newsasaki's case, 

 and the physicians are hopeful of his recovery. Newspaper. 



Doings of Societies. 



A meeting of the American Entomological Society was held 

 June 25th. Dr. Calvert, President, in the chair. Sixteen 

 persons were present. The President announced the death of 

 Charles A. Blake, one of the oldest members of the Society, 

 who was elected October 22, 1860. 



Dr. Skinner exhibited specimens of Papilio troihis from Cho- 

 koloskee, Florida, a southern race described from Texas, under 

 the name te.xanns by Ehrman. 



Mr. Daecke spoke of certain larvae he had found under the 

 bark of a pine tree. They emerged as flies from May 25th to 

 June 1 5th, and proved to be the Syrphid fly Xylota pigra Fab. 



Mr. Rehn exhibited two crickets, $ , 9 , collected by Mr. 

 Morgan Hebard at Thomasville, Georgia, which represent a 

 new genus allied to one found on the Atlantic seaboard. The 

 tambourine and ovipositor were compared in structure with 

 the allied genus. 



Mr. Bradley spoke of a trip to White Haven, Penna., after 



