PSYCHE. 
83 
ENTOMOLOGICAL ITEMS. 
NUMEROUS WELCOME responses have been re- 
ceived from persons who propose to present pa- 
pers at the annual meeting of the Fntomological 
Club of the A. A. A. 8. at Boston this year. 
Dr. J: L. LeConte’s pestifuge, or poisonous 
mixture for use with an atomizer in disinfecting 
insect cabinets can be obtained of Horace S. 
Bartlett, Cambridge, Mass., in any quantity, by 
applying for mixture no. 15,773. : 
Mr. E: P. Austin intends to publish a supple- 
ment to Crotch’s List of Coleoptera, containing 
the names of omitted or new species, with cur- 
rent numeros, in continuation of those used by 
Crotch. 
Tue PAppRs on fossil insects contributed by 
Mr. Goss to the last two volumes of the nto- 
mologist’s Monthly Magazine, of London, are to 
be collected in a pamphlet of about fifty pages, 
entitled, “ The Geological Antiquity of Insects.” 
These papers contain a mine of information, in 
a very convenient form. 
On THE 17th of Feb. 1880, some of the mem- 
bers of the Genootschap ter bevordering van 
Natuur-, Genees- en Heelkunde te Amsterdam 
assembled in the old French church in that 
place, at the grave of Johann Swammerdam, the 
famous Dutch naturalist, who died 17 Feb. 1880, 
two hundred years before. The president of the 
Genootschap, Professor B. J. Stokvis, announced 
the establishment of a Swammerdam-Medal, to 
be awarded every ten years to the naturalist who 
shall have accomplished most in the line in which 
Swammerdam worked. 
PETITIONS HAVE been presented to the Albany 
Legislature, now in session, for the appointment 
of an entomologist to the state of New York. 
Our friends would all rejoice at such a step. Dr. 
Fitch, we believe, was never more than entomol- 
ogist to the State Agricultural Society. The 
Empire State cultivates a great variety of ento- 
mological as well as other crops, and needs the 
services of such an expert to an unusual degree. 
Later. The mantle of Fitch could not have 
fallen more appropriately than in falling upon 
the shoulders of Joseph Albert Lintner of Al 
bany, who entered upon the duties of State En- 
tomologist of New York, 1 July 1880. 
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. ,, S Apri as; 
10 Dec. ,, 18 May ,, 
14 Jan. 1881. 10 June ,, 
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B: Picxkman Mann, 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 : — 
27 Oct. 1880. 23 Feb. 1881. 
24 Nov. |,, 23 Mar. ,, 
22 Dec. ,, Zi, play 
26 Jan. 1881. 25 May ,, 
B: Pickman Many, 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. ,, SANT. =55 
10 Dec. ,, 18 May ,, 
14 Jan. 1881. 10 June ,, 
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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 : — 
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. 
8 Aug. ,, 
7 Sept. 1880. 
5 Oct.. ,, 
G: H. Bowtgs, Secretary. 
PRIZE ESSAYS. 
Due 15 Ocr. 1882.—Life-histories of Sclero- 
stoma syngamus and of Strongilus pergracilis. See 
Psycue, v. 3, p. 59. 
