PSYCHE. 
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ENTOMOLOGICAL ITEMS. 
THE LIBRARY of the Swiss Entomological 
Society has been removed from Schaffhausen to 
No. 195 4, rue des gentilshommes, Berne. 
THE ENTOMOLOGICAL library of the late Pro- 
fessor Loew has been put on sale by List and 
Franke of Leipzig. It contains many rare pa- 
pers upon diptera. 
Mr. Van per Wot-p, Secretary of the Dutch 
Entomological Society, has recently been ap- 
pointed to the rank of Referendarius to the State 
board of control. 
Tue Last numero of the Harvard Library 
Bulletin published an account of the Entomol- 
ogical Libraries of the United States, by S: H- 
Seudder. The next will contain the first instal- 
ment of a Bibliography of Fossil Insects, by 
the same author. 
WHATEVER is sent to the editors of Psycur 
or to the CamBripGE EnTOMOLOGICAL CLUB, as 
a gift or otherwise, should be so addressed, and 
should be sent to Cambridge, Mass., U.S. A.; 
whatever is sent to the editors, for their private 
possession, should be distinctly addressed to 
them individually. 
Mr. W: S. Barnarp, Instructor in Entomol- 
ogy at Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y., informs 
-us that the report, in the N. Y. Times, that his 
paper, read at the Saratoga meeting of the A. 
A. A. S., on the Bud-blight insect, stated that 
Psylla pyri had not been described in this coun- 
try, is not correct, and that the mistake was made 
by the reporter. 
M. Paut Noet calls attentionin the December 
numero of the Feuille des jeunes naturalistes, to a 
new mode of collecting nocturnal lepidoptera, 
He employs a lantern, hung about a metre and a 
half above the ground, as a permanent attrac- 
tion, and then burns, from time to time, a small 
piece of magnesium tape, to attract specimeng 
from a greater distance to a point where they 
can see and come to the less brilliant light. Ac- 
cording to M. Noel, a half-metre of tape suffices 
for the evening, costs but little, and gives re- 
markably good results. 
SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
THE REGULAR meetings of the Cambridge En- 
tomological Club will be held at 19 ape St., 
at 7.45 p. m., on the days following : — 
9 Jan. 1880. 9 April 1880. 
13 Feb. ,, 14May ,, 
12 Mar. ,, 11 June ,, 
B: Pickman Many, Secretary. 
THE REGULAR meetings of the Entomological 
Section of the Boston Society of Natural History 
will be held at N. W. corner of Berkeley and 
Boylston Sts., Boston, Mass., at 7.45 p.m., on the 
days following : — 
28 Jan. 1880. 28 Apr. 1880. 
25 Feb. ,, 26 May ,, 
24 Mar. 
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B: Pickman Mann, Secretary. 
THE ANNUAL meetings of the Entomological 
Section of the American Association for the Ad- 
vancement of Science will begin at 2 p. m., on 
Tuesday, 24 Aug. 1880, at a place yet to be de- 
termined, in Boston, Mass. Members who intend 
to present communications that may provoke 
discussion are requested to allow the Secretary 
to announce their subjects, in order that other 
members may come ready to enter into a thor- 
ough discussion. 
B: Pickman Mann, Secretary, 
Cambridge, Mass. 
THE REGULAR meetings of the Entomological 
Section of the Academy of Natural Sciences, of 
Philadelphia, Pa., will be held at S. W. corner of 
19th and Race Sts., on the days following : — 
9 Jan. 1880. 9 Apr. 1880. 
13 Feb. ,, 14 May ,, 
12 Mar. ,, 11 June ,, 
James H. Ripines, 
Recorder. 
THE SEMI-ANNUAL meetings of the American 
Entomological Society will be held at S. W. cor- 
ner of 19th and Race Sts., Philadelphia, Pa., on 
the days following: — 
8 Dec. 1879. 14 June 1880. 
James H. Ripines, 
Recording Secretary. 
