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onions, and all liad been eaten up, so the land liad to be plowed and put 

 into potatoes. The larvae never came out in the day, but in the evening 

 they catne out in vast numbers and all hands turned out to capture them. 

 A man and wife had between 9 and 12 P.M., collected 8 quaits of larva. 

 In regard to the Hessian fl\-, that is so abundant in that part of the .^tate 

 that wheat culture is simply abandoned. 



Prof. Underwood says the maple cegerian has been common in Syra- 

 cu.se this year and many trees were literally full of larva. 



Prof. Osborn says in referrence to Sesia syringa that in i — 12 inch 

 ash twigs he has found them most abundant — tnose from larger trees con- 

 tained mostly parasites. Caloptenus femur-nibrum has been abundant and 

 attracted considerable attention — in fact some papers proclaimed the 

 arrival of J/, spretiis. They have done considerable damage to oat fields, 

 eating off the heads, and in pasture lands, where the damage is less 

 evident. 



In motion of Prof. Cook the meeting adjourned to meet again at the 

 call of the President. 



(To be continued. ) 



Notes and News. 



Dr. Gocling writes us as follows: I have another piece of good news to report, 

 Tennessee — the most progressive of all the Southern States has made another ad- 

 vance and appointed a State Entomologist. Prof. E. W. Doran, Principal of the 

 London (Tenn. ) Academy is the appointee and will at once enter upon his duties. 



Though not very well known to the entomological world, yet Prof. Doran has 

 l)een a quiet, earnest student of the habits of insects for several years, and no doubt 

 a bright future is befoie him. 



Little entomological work has been done in Tennessee, and, with a rich soil and 

 firie magnolia groves about him we may well exjDect some fine fruit following Prof. 

 Doran's labors". 



Prof. Doran is imknown to us, and we await with interest the result of his work. 

 It is always a pleasure to us to learn of a new worker, and in this case there is added 

 the gratification that another State has recognized the importance of having an Ento- 

 mologist. It might, perhaps, have been better, had a more experienced man been 

 appointed, but we are willing to give our new friend a fair shovy. 



* 

 Occasionally, in a narrative of travels an interesting observation on insect habits 

 is made, and is very apt to be overlooked. Mr. E. A. Schwarz has handed us the 

 following notes from "Die Thierwelt im HoUandischen Guiana" von Aug. Kappler.* 

 -bc.s'ZancZ 1885. P. 617. No. 31. Speaking of J5/-a(/ypw,s C(/cc«n_^a (Faulkner), an 

 animal of the the size of a cat, covered with a fur of dense hair-like wool; and be. 

 jonging to the Edentata, he says "In this thick fur there lives as a parasite, a Tineid, 



* Animal Life in Dutch Guiana, l)y Aug. Kappler. 



