October — December 1S84.] 



PSYCHE. 



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ENTOMOLOGICAL ITEMS. 



Strawberry plants are damaged in parts 

 of Micliigan by Oiior/iyiic/iiis ligiiciis. 



We are sorry to note that Science record, 

 which its editor, Mr. J: S. Kingsley, has 

 lately improved in many respects, lias sus- 

 pended publication. 



F. Mina-Palumiu), in an article concluded 

 in the October-November nnniero of" // ?ia/- 

 iiraUfid stciliaiio. enumerates 301 species of 

 European lepidopteia which feed on oak. 



The extomological club "Iris," in Dres- 

 den, has just reawakened to new activity and 

 we are in receipt of numero one of its "Cor- 

 respondenzblatt" issued for October 1SS4. 



Dr. Ai'GtiST Weismanx of Freiburg has 

 been nominated as successor of Prof. K. 

 T. von Siebold in the University of Munich. 

 Prof, von Siebold has been made an emeri- 

 tus. 



At the June (1SS3) meeting of the Lin- 

 nean society of New South Wales, Mr. Deane 

 exhibited sandstone penetrated by burrows 

 apparently dug by some hvmenopterous 

 insect. 



A NEW localitv reported to be infected by 

 phylloxera is in the vicinity of Caltagirone. 

 in Sicily. The same insect has been found 

 near Linz, a town on the Rhine not far from 

 Coblenz. 



Dr. W. G. Stevensox reports, in the 

 Transactions of the Vassar brothers insti- 

 tute, 1SS3-1SS4. V. 2, p. 135. a capture of 

 Papilio turiins var. glaucns at Ponghkeepsie, 

 N. Y., in August 1SS2. 



Phyllo.xera has made its appearance in 

 the Pomological institute of Proskau (Sile- 

 sia). It is hoped, however, that the spread 

 of the disease may yet be prevented. — 

 Science, 21 Nov. 1SS4. v. 4. p. 4S1. 



Miss Jennie M. Arms, teacher of natural 

 history in Boston, Mass., read a paper on 

 •'Observation lessons on insects," at the 

 fortieth annual meeting of the Massachusetts 

 teachers' association, 29 to 31 December 1SS4, 

 in Boston, Mass. 



OXE COPY of no. 4 of vol 2 of American 

 entomologist wanted. Also one copy of C : 

 V. Riley's 6th annual report of the state en- 

 tomologist of Missouri. Riley's 3d report 

 offered in exchange or for sale. Address, 

 stating price. B : Pickman Manx. Washing- 

 ton, D. C. 



Ix the meeting of the Entomological so- 

 ciety of London, on i Oct. 1SS4, Baron C : R. 

 Osten Sacken communicated ''Facts concern- 

 ing the importation, or non-importation cf 

 diptera into distant lands" in which con- 

 siderable curious information about North 

 American diptera was given. 



Exchange of Europeax and American 

 coLEOPTERA. — Mr. C. F". Lange, of Anna- 

 berg, in Saxony, otTers to exchange Euro- 

 pean for American coleoptera, and refers to 

 Mr. John B. Smith, 290 3d avenue, Brooklyn. 

 N. Y., to certify that his specimens are well 

 prepared and correctly named. 



Mr. S. II. Sct'DDER's memoir upon Dr. J : 

 L. LeConte, read before the National acad- 

 emy of sciences, 17 April 1884, published in 

 vol. II of the Transactions of the American 

 entomological society and as a separate, 

 contains a line portrait of Dr. LeConte and 

 an accoimt of the ancestr\ of his familv. 



Mr. II. DOXCKIER DE DONCEEL givCS U 



list of the (intliribidae described since the 

 publication of Genmiinger and Harold's cata- 

 log of coleoptera, in the Compte-rendu of 

 the Belgian entomological society for S Nov. 

 1SS4. Twenty-four new species and ten 

 new genera are accredited to North America. 



Sandstone h.\s been found perforated in 

 all directions and to a considerable depth 

 b\- an undetermined species of bee in New 



