January— M;ucli iSSS-] 



psrcHE. 



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ENTOMOLOGICAL ITEMS. 



Dr. a. Gestro, wliose address is at the 

 Miiseo Civico, Genoa, Italy, would like a 

 correspondent with whom he could exchange 

 coleoptera of Italy, New Guinea, and the 

 Malay archipelago, for those of North Amer- 

 ica. 



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Herr Lehrer Fr.\nz Buzek, in Rako- 

 witz, Hungarian Austria, desires to ex- 

 change coleoptera and lepidoptera of his 

 own locality for those of North America. 

 Address as above given. 



AssiST.\NT WANTED. — Dr. C. V. Riley is 

 looking for some one experienced in collect- 

 ing and mounting insects, to assist in the 

 work of the Division of Entomology at the 

 Department of Agriculture in Washington. 

 Salary according to ability. Applicants may 

 address him at the Department. 



South Americ.\n Insects for sale. — 

 M. Louisa Ross, Hyde Park, N. Y. , offers 

 for sale a 15-drawer cabinet containing ten 

 drawers of butterflies, one of moths, one of 

 more than 200 beetles, and one variety drawer, 

 M South American; one of moths and one 

 of butterflies, both North American ; syste- 

 matically arranged. Price, $500, which is 

 stated to be very much below cost. The 

 beetles will be sold for $60, if bought separ- 

 ately or with the most rare of the butterflies. 

 The other specimens may be sold by the 

 drawer. The collection is at the Cooper In- 

 stitute, New York City, where it can be seen. 



Staphyi.inidae of Buenos Aires. — Mr. 

 F^lix Lynch Arribalzaga has just completed 

 a paper, entitled "Estafilinos de Buenos 

 Aires," which occupies the first 392 pages of 

 vol. 7 of the Boletin de la Academia nacional 

 de ciencias en Cordoba, and which is an im- 

 portant contribution to the coleopterous 

 fauna of the Argentine Republic. The au- 

 thor gives descriptions and notes upon iiS 

 species (belonging to 58 genera) which are 

 found in the province of Buenos Aires. A 

 few of the species are North American. 



Entomological club of A. A. A. S. — 



The next meeting of the American associa- 

 tion for the advancement of science will be 

 held at Ann Arbor, Mich., commencing 

 Aug. 26th 1SS5. The Entomological club 

 will meet at that place on August 25th 1SS5, 

 according to its by-laws; exact locality not 

 yet determined. 



Will those members of the club or other 

 entomologists who expect to be present 

 please notify one of the undersigned, and 

 also send in the title of any papers they ex- 

 pect to read, and state the length of time 

 they expect to occupy, so that a program 

 can be arranged.' The exact place and hour 

 of meeting, as well as the program so faj 

 as fixed, will be published later. 



John B. Smith, Brooklyn, N. Y. , Ckaiimati. 



Herbert Osborn, Ames, Iowa. 



B. Pickman Mann, Washington, D. C. 



Committee. 



Data on annual addresses. The ear- 

 lier annual addresses of the retiring presi- 

 dents of the Cambridge entomological club, 

 of which we publish in this numero that for 

 1885, were as follows : — 



1st annual address, by S: H. Scudder, 

 Jan. 1878. [5ce Psyche, Jan. -Feb. (14 June) 

 1878, V. 2, p. 97-116 (Rec, 1401).] 



2nd, by E: P. Austin, 10 Jan. 1S79- S^See 

 Psyche, 1879, v. 2: (14) Mar., p. 217-223; 

 (II) Apr., p. 227-228 (Rec, 1434).] 



3rd, by E; Burgess, 9 Jan. iSSo. \^See 

 Psyche, Mar. (i May) 1880, v. 3, p. 27-43 

 (Rec, 2943).] 



4th, by E : Burgess, 14 Jan. 1881. [Not 

 published; see Psyche, Jul. -Sep. 1S81 (7 

 Mar. 1882), V. 3, p. 245 (Rec, 2950).] 



Sth, by E: L. Mark, 13 Jan. 1882. [Not 

 published.] 



6th, by S : H. Scudder, 12 Jan. 1883. [Not 

 published; see Psyche, Jan. -Feb. (5 May) 

 1SS3, V. 4, p. 13.] 



7th, by B: P. Mann, 11 Jan. 1884. \_Sce 

 P.syche, Apr. (14 June) 1SS4, v. 4, p. 155- 

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