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l)robal:)Iy obtain their supply of nectar from the galls or from 

 eoccids and aphids on the oaks or other components of the 

 chaparral. Mr. Leonard has given more extensive accounts of 

 their haliits at Point Loma. He foinul tliat they were nocturnal. 

 They visit aphids on carnations and roses, and the nectaries of 

 tlie pepi)er tree, rattle-snake weed, honey plant, and CcautliHs 

 cnneatus of chai)arral. 



SOME CHANGES IN THE GENERIC AND SPECIFIC 

 NAMES OF PLANT LICE 



In the paper on California plant lice which appeared in the 

 last issue of this journal there should be the following changes: 

 Mouella caUfuniicd for Ciilliptt'iut; calif oniicus, Eichochaito- 

 jjliunts for EikocJuittopliurus, rufnim for rufu, Fullawaya for 

 Davidsonia, Mycrclla for Micra, Typha for Typho. 



In the December number of the Zoologischer Anzeiger of 

 11)12, there is a short paper on the family Pantophthalmidae of 

 the Diptera. There are fifteen text figures and several new 

 si)ecies described. 



In Vol. I of the Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, issued 

 November 27, 1912, there are a number of important ento- 

 mological papers. There is an article of 124 pages by A. A. 

 Girault on Australian Hjanenoptera and three shorter ones by 

 A\'. J. Rainbow on spiders. 



In the Bulletin de la Societe Entomologique de France, No. 1, 

 1 !)!.'), there is given a list of the members of the society. This 

 list takes up more than half of this number of the publication 

 and covers 38 pages. 



In the journal "Insecta", published by the entomological 

 station of the faculty of sciences of Rennes, there is a portrait 

 of Latreille, who was born in 1762 and died in Paris in 1833. 

 P>y the writer of the sketch, Latreille is considered to be the 

 greatest of all entomologists. He it was who first placed insects 

 in their natural orders and established the principal families. 



