PSYCHE. 71 
ENTOMOLOGICAL ITEMS. 
THE WELL-KNOWN entomological author, Karl 
Fritsch, of Salzburg, Austria, died 26 Dec. 1879, 
in his sixty-eighth year. 
THREE PRIZES, amounting to about 1800 dol- 
lars, have teen offered by the Italian govern- 
ment for vineyards raised from grafts of those va- 
rieties of American grapes which are known to be 
capable of resisting the attacks of phylloxera. 
ACCORDING TO an item in Colonies and India, 
a new disease, in the form of a minute tick, has 
sprung up in the vineyards of Cape Colony. 
The press of that region is, meanwhile, discuss- 
ing measures to prevent the introduction of phy]- 
loxera into the colony. 
Two EMINENT French lepidopterists died last 
December in Paris, Dr. Jean Alphonse Boisduval 
and Jean Etienne Berce. The latter, well-known 
as the author of “Les papillons de France,” died 
the 29th, and the former, author of many works 
upon lepidoptera, died the next day. 
THE ANNUAL meeting of the Entomological 
Club of the American Association for the Ad- 
vancement of Science will be held at the Mu- 
seum of the Boston Society of Natural History, 
corner of Berkeley and Boylston Sts., Boston, 
commencing at 2 p. m., Tuesday, 24 Aug. 1880. 
It is proposed to send to every member of the 
American Association, and to all others who may 
favor the undersigned with their address for that 
purpose, a circular announcing the special sub- 
jects which will be presented at this meeting of 
the Club; and therefore all entomologists who 
desire to read communications at that time are 
requested to notify one of the undersigned be- 
fore August Ist. This will ensure a fuller dis- 
cussion of the topics presented, and, it is hoped, 
a larger attendance. 
There will be aninformal social gathering of 
entomologists at the rooms of the Boston Society 
of Natural History, 24 Aug. 1880, from 10 a. m. 
tolp.m. During the meeting of the American 
Association a room will be constantly open for 
the exclusive use of the entomologists. 
Samuet H. ScuppeEr, President, 
Cambridge, Mass. 
B: Pickman Mann, Secretary, 
Cambridge, Mass. 
SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
THE REGULAR meetings of the Cambridge En- 
tomological Club will be held at 19 Follen St., 
at 7.45 p. m., on the days following : — 
8 Oct. 1880. 11 Mar. 1881. 
12 Nov. ,, SApr es 
10 Dec. ,, 3 May ,, 
14 Jan. 1881. 10 June _,, 
ti hep: 
B: Pickman Mann, Secretary. 
THE REGULAR nieetings 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 : — 
27 Oct. 1880. 23 Feb. 1881. 
24 Nov. ,, 23 Mar. ,, 
22 Dec. ,, 2 ApEn 55 
26 Jan. 1881. 25 May ,, 
B: Pickman Mann, Secretary. 
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 : — 
8 Oct. 1880. 11 Mar. 1881. 
12 Nov. ,, SeApr as 
10 Dee. ,, 13 May ,, 
14 Jan. 1881. 10 June ,, 
TL Reb: > ,, 
JamMEs 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 : — 
13 Dec. 1880. 13 June 1881. 
James H. Ripines, Recording Secretary. 
THE REGULAR monthly meetings of the Mon- 
treal Branch of the Entomological Society of 
Ontario, will be held at Montreal, Que., Canada, 
on the days following : — 
6 July 1880. 
7 Sept. 1880. 
3 Aug. ,, 
5: Octhn 5 
G: H. Bow gs, Secretary. 
PRIZE ESSAYS. 
Doe 15 Ocr. 1882.— Life-histories of Sclero- 
stoma syngamus and of Strongilus pergracilis. See 
PsyYcuHE, v. 3, p. 59. 
