PSYCHE. 
ENTOMOLOGICAL ITEMS. 
Srr J: Lussocx has received specimens of 
Australian ants which have a very much dis. 
tended abdomen, so that the ant serves as an 
animated honey-pot. 
Tue mystery of Prosopistoma punctifrons is 
solved. Dr. Joly and Mr. Vayssiere have reared 
it and find that it is an ephemerid, as has been 
supposed. It has also been supposed to be a 
crustacean, and again to be the larva of a parnid 
beetle. 
Tue Micnuiean State Pomological Society 
has, at the suggestion of Prof. A. J. Cook, offered 
two prizes, the first of fifty dollars, and the second 
of twenty-five, to be given to the neighborhood 
that shows most skill, thoroughness, and secures 
best results in destroying the coddling moth. — 
Amer. naturalist, June 1880, v. 14, p. 470. 
AUTHORS wHo desire to enlarge any numero 
of Psycue in order to accommodate longer arti- 
cles by them than are regularly accepted by the 
editors for publication, can do so at a cost of 
$6.50 for each 4 pages of Long-Primer reading 
matter, or fraction thereof. This offer is in no 
way intended to extend admission to articles of 
a nature unsuitable for publication in Psycue, 
such as descriptions of new species, or lists of 
insects from special localities. 
M. Pau Noeu describes two modes of collect- 
ing coleoptera in the May numero of the Feuille 
des jeunes naturalistes. To capture some of the 
carabidae he strews earthworms, cut in small 
pieces, about loose rocks or boards near moist 
roads. After the beetles have eaten their fill, 
during the night, they secrete themselves under 
the boards or rocks, where they may be easily 
collected the next morning. To capture Geotru- 
pes and staphylinidae M. Noel puts the excre- 
ment in which they live in a tub of water, and, 
after thorough stirring, the beetles float to the 
top, while the refuse mostly sinks. The beetles 
can be easily gathered from the surface with a 
sieve, a few grams of ether having been added 
to the water, if they are so numerous as to be 
liable to escape. This mode of collecting will 
be applicable to insects not mentioned by M. 
Noel, e. g., to beetles in bark and fungus, by 
using forced submersion. 
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. ,, 8 Apr. ,, 
10 Dec. ,, 138 May ,, 
14 Jan. 1881. 10 June ,, 
ti Reb. 5, 
B: Pickman 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 Dee. ,, Plc ADEs 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. ,, SvApIa | 5s 
10 Dec. ,, 138 May ,, 
14 Jan. 1881. 10 June ,, 
Li Feb: 5; 
James H. Ripinas, Jecorder. 
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 Dee. 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 : — 
7 Sept. 1880. 4 Jan.1881. 
aOct, 1 Feb. ,, 
ZENOVA. jgy 1 Mar: ,, 
‘Dec. |; brAwr: & 
G: H. Bow tes, Secretary. 
PRIZE ESSAYS. 
Due 15 Ocr. 1882.—Life-histories of Sclero- 
stoma syngamus and of Strongilus pergracilis. See 
PSYCHE, Vv. 3, p. 59. 
