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Notes and News. 



The collection of Lepidoptera made by Mr. O. Meske, of Albany, 

 N. Y., has been acquired for the National Museum. The collection con- 

 tains many types of American species and a well determined lot of 

 European and other exotic species. With the Lepidoptera contained in 

 the Riley collection and in the Belfrage collection, that order is now very 

 fully represented: — American forms principally considered. When in 

 shape, with the rich biological material of the Riley collection well work- 

 ed in, it will rank among the best in the country. 



We are pleased to be able to notify our renders that Mr. P. R. Uhler 



of Baltimore has handed us the mss. for a Check List of the Hemiptera 



Heteroptera for publication. That we need such a list no one will 



dispute, and that Mr. Uhler is the proper man to prepare it will be as 



little doubted. 



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 The first specimen of Rhopalopus Sangidnicollis Horn, I got from 



Carrolltown on the Laurel Ridge Mts. Since then I have found it on 

 the Chestnut Ridge in Westmoreland Co., Pa.; but only on the sweet black 

 cherry tree. It does not seem to injure any other trees, for beside these 

 trees stand sweet red and sour red cherry, apple, peach, pear etc., all un- 

 touched by the insect. It makes its appearance after the tree has blos- 

 somed and before the fruit is ripe (about middle of June) and a few 

 specimens may be gotten as late as August. It is always taken in the 

 afternoon on the shaded side of the tree. Thaddeus Seher. 



Owing to the length of other articles, the continuation of the Pro- 

 ceedings of the Ent. Club of the A. A. A. S. was crowded out of this 

 number. A goodly portion will appear in our next. 



In the June number of Ent. Am., under "Notes and News", I no- 

 ticed the statement from Mr. L. O. Howard, that Belosioma grandis was 

 attracted in great numbers to the electric lights in New Orleans during 

 the month of December. This was also the case in the early part of the 

 same year, and probably prevails to a greater or less extent all the year 

 rpund. I might add that in Chicago the electric lights attract, besides 

 other insects, great numbers o^ Ephemerae. In the latter part of July I 

 have seen myriads of these insects in the evening, attracted to the lights. 

 In some places the stone pavement being entirely covered over with them, 

 so that there was more danger of slipping up on their soft bodies and 

 falling, than if the pavement had been carefully strewn with the proverbial 

 banana peel. They undoubtedly breed by millions in the Chicago River, 

 and are a constant source of annoyance during the greater part of the 

 summer. C. H. T. Townsend, Constantine, INIich. 



