30 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS." [Jan., '03 



Dr. L. O. HOWARD recently gave an interesting lecture before the Stille 

 Medical Club of the University of Penna. His subject was mosquitoes 

 in their relation to yellow fever and malaria. 



A swarm of bees chased Willie, Till the boy was almost wild, 

 His anxious parents wondered why the bees pursued the child. 



To diagnose, they summoned their physician, Dr. Ives, 



" I think," he said, " the reason's clear, our Willie has the hives." 



WIDOW. 



THE ELM LEAF BEETLE FOUND AT ITHACA, N. Y. On July 13, 1902, 

 Mr. P B. Powell, a studeut, discovered the egg shells, young and nearly 

 full-grown grubs of what seemed to be Galerucella luteola on several elm 

 trees along University Avenue, which leads to the Cornell campus from 

 the city. The infestation was slight, only a few branches on a dozen trees 

 being affected. On July i6th, Mr. Powell found the beetle, and on July 

 26th his larvae pupated and the beetle emerged August 2d. We also 

 reared some of the beetles August yth. They were the genuine elm leaf 

 beetle. 



A second brood appeared on the trees in August. On August 23d Mr. 

 Powell found eggs and young grubs, and on the 3oth he got one of the 

 beetles at an electric light. This second brood did not seem as numerous 

 as the first one in July. It is reported that elms on Renwick flats, near 

 the city, are also infested. The many elms which line the streets of 

 Ithaca, the " Forest City/' and especially the grounds of Cornell Univer- 

 sity, will afford fine pasturage for this serious pest if it thrives here as in 

 the Hudson Valley. M. V. SLINGERLAND, Cornell University. 



" IM so TIRED this morning," said the first moth. 



" Up late last night ?" asked the second. 



" Yes," replied the first. " I was at a camphor ball." St. Paid Globe. 



I READ with interest Prof. Doran's article on compounding insect names 

 in the November number of ENT. NEWS. I can agree with most of the 

 author's tatements and the concrete examples submitted. 



There are two names in his list, however, which I would compound 

 otherwise. They are "cigar-case bearer" and " pistol-case bearer. " I 

 think these are not in strict accordance with his rule 2. Both these in- 

 sects are "case-bearers," that is caterpillars live incases. One has a case 

 shaped like a cigar and the other's case resembles a pistol in shape. 

 Hence they are strictly " cigar-shaped case-bearers " and " pistol-shaped 

 case-bearers," and their cases are not shaped like a "cigar-case," and in 

 the case of the " pistol," it is not the "case " of the pistol that is referred 

 to, but simply the pistol-shape of the caterpillar's case. I would now 

 write them : " cigar case-bearer " and ' pistol case-bearer," but in bulle- 

 tins on both these insects (Bulletins 93 and 124, Cornell Experiment Sta- 

 tion), I compounded the three words, thus: "cigar-case-bearer" and 



