Jaininrv— Febrii:iry 1SS4. | 



PSYCHE. 



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ENTOMOLOGICAL ITEMS. 



Bulletin no. 3 of the Entomological divi- 

 sion of the U. S. Department of agriculture 

 was issued S Dec 1SS3, and may be obtained 

 on application to the U. S. Commissioner 

 of agriculture at Washington. 



The secret.-\rv of the Cambridge ento- 

 mological club has just published, at his own 

 expense, the minutes of the club's meetings 

 held during 1SS3. A copy has been sent to 

 every active member of the club. 



M. Theodore Goossens has announced 

 a memoir to appear in the annals of the 

 French entomological society on the eggs of 

 lepidoptera. With M. Goossens' long experi- 

 ence in rearing lepidopterous larvae this 

 paper will be probably a valuable and inter- 

 esting contribution to entomology. 



Mr. W. H.-vgue Harrington ha.s present- 

 ed a list of 926 species of coleoptera taken 

 about Ottawa. Canada, during the past six 

 years, to the Ottawa field-naturalists' club. 

 The list, when published, will contain about 

 1050 species, there being some vet awaiting 

 determination. 



Dr. H. a. II.\gen, of Cambridge, Mass.. 

 is writing a monograph of the Odoiiata and 

 is desirous of obtaining larvae and pup^e of 

 these insects, and especially reared specimens 

 with notes upon their earlier stages. 



Mr. Hexry Edw.nrds, who started and 

 has since edited and published Papilio. has 

 transferred that paper to Mr. Eugene M. 

 Aaron, who requests that all communications 

 and business pertaining to Pafilio be ad- 

 dressed to him. Lock Box 2500. Philadelphia. 

 Pa. 



Pkof. Berg describes in a late numero of 

 Koiinos, how a spider, Uiafoiitia kochii. 

 found in Uruguay, uses funnel-formed webs 

 to catch tadpoles for food. In the American 

 naturalist for November 1876, T, M. Peters 

 relates the mode by which a species of spider 

 found in Alabama springs upon and captures 

 minnows. 



Mr. Willi.wi T'^^es notes, in Science for 

 4 Jan, 1SS4, that he kept a spider alive in a 

 box without food or drink for 204 days. 



Le Naturaliste canadien, begun Dec, 

 1S6S. has just ceased publication, the final 

 numero containing an explanation that the 

 withdrawal of an allowance of $400 heretofore 

 granted it by the government rendered its 

 continued publication impossible. 



The World's industrial and cotton cen- 

 tennial exposition, which will open early in 

 December 1SS4, in New Orleans. La., in- 

 cludes in its scope exhibits of useful and 

 noxious insects, and should not be forgotten 

 by enton.ologists. Further particulars can 

 lie obtained by addressing the director gen- 

 eral of the exhibition. Mr. E. A. Burke, at 

 New Orleans. 



Any person who considers himself com- 

 petent to transcribe and to translate into En- 

 glish with acciu-acy descriptions of insects 

 in dutch, english, french, german, Italian, 

 and latin, and has access to extensive entom- 

 ological libraries, is invited to communicate 

 with Mr. B : P. Mann, at the U. S. Department 

 of agriculture, Washington, D,C,, stating the 

 price at which he would be willing to do such 

 work. 



The Ministry of the interior of the gov- 

 ernment of the Argentine Republic, by 

 resolution of S September 1883, refused to 

 allow Don Julio Lacroze to import into the 

 countrv a quantity of grape-vines lying in 

 the custom house at Buenos Aires, This 

 resolution was founded on a previous deci'ee 

 prohibiting the introduction of grape-vines, 

 so as to prevent the development of Phyl- 

 loxera vitifoliae. — El iiacioual [Buenos 

 Aires], 8 Sep. 1SS3, p. i. col. S. 



The friends of the late Dr. Hermann 

 Miiller, of Lippstadt, Germany, have under- 

 taken to establish a fund to honor the mem- 

 ory of Dr. Miiller and to aid his family. 

 The fund will be termed the Miiller-fund; 

 its revenues will be given to Dr. Miiller's 

 widow during her life-time, anti after her 



