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PSYCHE. 



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ENTOMOLOGICAL ITEMS 



Dk. a. S. Packard. The June (iSSS) 

 niimero of the Popular sc/c//cc monthly con- 

 tains a sketch of the life and services to sci- 

 ence of Dr. A. S. Packard. A portrait ac- 

 companies the article. 



Ephe.meridae. — Rev. A. E. Eaton having 

 completed his monograph of recent May- 

 flies (Trans. Linn. soc. Lond. s. 2, v. 3 pp. 

 352, 65 plates) gives in the June and July 

 numeros of the Ent. mo. mag., a generic 

 synopsis with annotated list of thirty-seven 

 British species. 



Entomological Club, A. A. A. S. — The 

 next meeting of the club will be held at 

 Cleveland, Ohio, in the High School build- 

 ing, on Wednesday, the 15th of August, at 

 9 a. m. Entomologists intending to present 

 papers should send the titles to the same to 

 the secretary, Prof. A. J. Cook, Agricultural 

 College, Michigan in order that they may be 

 announced in the programme. 



LeBaron's Reports. — As state entomolo- 

 gist of Illinois, Dr. William LeBaron pre- 

 pared the four reports for the years 187 1 to 

 1S74, the second to the fifth of the series. 

 Prof. S. A. Forbes has copies of these which 

 he will send to entomologists on receipt of 

 the requisite amoimt of postage. The first 

 report requii-es three cents postage, the sec- 

 ond and third each two cents and the fourth 

 six cents. Prof. Forbes' address is Cham- 

 paign, Illinois. 



Curculio injury to Cherries. — Accord- 

 ing to experiments carried on at the Ohio 

 station three-fourths of the cherries liable to 

 injury b}' the Plum curculio, Coiiotracheliis 

 nenuphar, were saved by spraying the trees 

 with London purple, used in proportion of 

 one ounce to five gallons of water. The 

 spraying was done soon after the blossoms 

 fell. On check trees where the spraying was 

 omitted the curculios did much damage. No 

 trace of the poison was discovered on analy- 

 sis of the fruit a week after spraying. Spray- 



ing with a solution of lime was also tried but 

 was less eftective, only forty per cent being 

 saved. 



Glossina morsitans. — V. Fric, natural 

 history dealer, Wladislawgasse 21. Prague, 

 offeis among other interesting entomological 

 material specimens of the famous Tsetze- 

 FLY, Glossina morsitans. This species which 

 is allied to our common Stable-fly, Sto- 

 moxys calc.itrans, is so injurious to horses 

 and cattle that some portions of tropical 

 Africa are rendered impassable. Though 

 locally abundant the species is rare in collec- 

 tions. Westwood in Proc. zool. soc. Lon- 

 don, 1S5S, v. iS, describes and figures three 

 species of Glossina and remarks upon their 

 supposed connection with the fourth plague 

 of Egypt. 



Bees in the Mails. — Under date of 17 

 July 1 888 the postmaster-general announces 

 "The Canada oflice having assented to the 

 proposition of tliis department to admit to 

 the mails exchanged between the United 

 States and Canada packages of queen bees 

 and their attendant bees when so put up as to 

 prevent injury to those handling the mails, 

 while at the same time allowing an easy veri- 

 fication of the contents, packages of bees will 

 hereafter be entitled to transmission by mail 

 to Canada provided they conform to the con- 

 ditions prescribed for them in the domestic 

 mails of this country, and similar packages 

 received in the mails from Canada should be 

 promply forwarded to their destinations and 

 delivered to addresses." 



An Army of Myriopods. — Mr. W. H. 

 Cleaver of East Bethlehem, Pa., writes to 

 Mr. Edwin Linton concerning an army of 

 myriopods as follows, "they are travelling 

 eastward in countless millions. They travel 

 at night or in the cool of the morning and 

 evening. They camp during the day by get- 

 ting under sods, boards, stones or anything 

 to protect them from the heat of the sun. In 

 some places during the day they are piled up 

 in great numbers. They do not seem to de- 



