M:iy 1SS4. 



PsrCHE. 



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ENTOMOLOGICAL ITEMS. 



Monsieur A. Delugin, pharmacien, a 

 Blois, France, wishes to exchange the French 

 species of Doiiacia for those of North Amer- 

 ica. 



Mr. IIowakd L. Clark publishes, in 

 Random notes on tiatural history, for May 

 1SS4, an account of a swarm of Callidryas 

 iiiluilc seen in Rhode Island, in 1869 or 1S70. 



Just as this numero goes to press we learn 

 of the sudden death of Francis Gregory San- 

 born, of Worcester, Mass., well-known as an 

 entomologist. He died 5 June 1SS4, at Prov- 

 idence. R. I. 



Mr. Anson Allen, lepidopterist, died in 

 Orono. Me., S Feb. 1SS4, in the 55th year of 

 his age. Prof. C. H. Fernald publishes an 

 obituary notice of Mr. Allen in the Canadian 

 entomologist for March, 1SS4. v. 16. p. 43-44. 



Mr. S. Schofield, at a late session of the 

 Rhode Island entomological society, read a 

 ]iapcr on experiments made with the eggs 

 and larvae of Ccratocampa imfcrialis. The 

 mode of fighting among these larvae was 

 grapliicall^' described. 



M. Edmond Andre, a Beaune, Cote-d'Or, 

 France, who has latel_)' established an agency 

 for the sale of entomological publications 

 and apparatus, has just issued his fourth 

 catalog of books for sale, including a large 

 number of French separates. 



Dr. J.\coBS notes two recent cases in which 

 the lar\ae o{ Dcymatobia noxialis, a dipteron 

 have been found beneath the skin of persons 

 who have returned to France from America. 

 These cases have been announced in the An- 

 nals of the Societe de biologic de France, and 

 in the Comptes rendus of the Societe ento- 

 mologique de Belgique. 



We regret to learn that Sir Sidney 

 Smith Saunders, C. M. G., for many years 

 British consul in various Mediterranean ports, 

 and a distinguished entomologist, died sud- 

 denly on Tuesday evening (15th) at an ad- 



\anced age. He was one, of the original 

 members of the Entomological society of 

 London, and was a vice-president of the 

 society at the time of his death. He devoted 

 special attention to the singular bee-parasites 

 known as stylopidac. — Natnrc, 17 Apr. 1884, 

 v. 29, p. 581. 



The nf.wlv organized Entomological soci- 

 ety of Washington has elected the following 

 officers: President, C. V. Rile3'; vice-presi- 

 dents, J. G. Morris and Geo. Marx; record- 

 ing secretary. E. A. Schwarz; corresponding 

 secretary, L. O. Howard; treasurer, B. P. 

 Mann ; executive committee, the officers and 

 W. S. Barnard, P. R. Uhler and A.J. Shaf- 

 hirt. Meetings are held the first Thursday 

 of each month. 



M. Adrien Dollfus, the enterprising 

 editor of the FcuiJlc drs jeiines natnralisfes. 

 offers to the subscribers of his paper a prize 

 for competitive work in dissection and insect 

 anatomy. A sample of the kind of work 

 required is gi\'en in the Fcuillc for May, in a 

 paper, by Dr. H. Viallanes, entitled "Anat- 

 omic et dissection de la larve de libellule," 

 with a plate. The subject proposed by M. 

 Dollfus is the anatomy of the larva of some 

 diurnal leindopteron, and the paper is to be 

 accompanied by drawings of the parts. The 

 first prize is a scientific work, of the value of 

 50 francs, to be chosen by the successful 

 competitor; a second prize of 25 francs value 

 mav be given. We wish the best of success 

 to M. Dollfus, who works with patriotic zeal 

 to instil a love of scientific study of nature 

 into the readers of his interesting paper. 



G: D. 



Dr. J. A. Osborne writes, in the Rntomnl- 

 ogist's monthly magazine for Dec. 1S83, 

 among some observations on Zaraea fasei- 

 ata. 



"Last year I was not able to say positively 

 in which end of the egg the head of the em- 

 bryo develops. As the result of numerous 

 observations I am now in a position to state, 

 that the Iiead of the embryo is found in the 



