PSYCHE. 
ENTOMOLOGICAL ITEMS. 
THE APPROPRIATIONS by Congress, at its last 
session, include one of $25,000 for the U. 8. En- 
tomological Commission. 
Joseru Baer &Co., of Frankfort-on-the-Main, 
have issued a catalog (no. 79) of the library of the 
late Dr. Haag-Ruthenberg, for sale by that firm. 
Tue Dorruesta, or Australian bug, like the 
Xanthium spinosum and the phylloxera, have oc- 
cupied the attention of the legislature [in Cape 
Colony]. It has already destroyed much timber, 
and has lately attacked vines and roses. ...— 
Colonies and India, 31 July 1880, p. 13. 
A BRED specimen of Arctia fuliginosa which 
possessed only one antenna was exhibited at the 
meeting of the London Entomological Society, 2 
June 1880. Sir J: Lubbock said that he had oc- 
casionally bred ants with only one antenna, and 
had possessed one with no antennae. 
Miss Emiry A. Smita, the well-known ento- 
mologist of Peoria, Illinois, has gone to Leipzig, 
where, if the university authorities will allow it, 
she will pursue a general course of zoological 
work in the new laboratory of Professor Leuck- 
art. Her address, for the present, is Salzgisschen, 
8, 111, Leipzig, Germany. 
Dr. HABerLAnpdtT, in the “ster. Landwirth. 
Wochenblatt,” in treating of the cultivation of 
red clover, urges agriculturists to act upon the 
discoveries of Darwin, and protect the humble- 
bees necessary for the fertilization of the blos- 
soms of this plant. — Journ. of Science, May 1880, 
p. 347. 
UNDER THE auspices of the Government of 
Ceylon an elaborate illustrated work on the lep- 
idoptera of that island is in active preparation, 
edited by Mr. F. Moore, F. Z.S. The publica- 
tion is entrusted to Messrs. L. Reeve & Co., from 
whom the first instalment may be expected 
shortly. — The Athenaeum, 3 July 1880, p. 21. 
Mr. Cates Cooxe, once a pupil of Agassiz, 
who has been an industrious collector in the 
neighborhood of his own home, Salem, Mass., 
and has also collected in South America, Zanzi- 
bar and Madagascar, and in the Mammoth Cave 
in Ky., died in Salem, 5 June 1880, aged 42 
years and 4 months. 
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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 5; 
LOMDec.. 18 May ,, 
14 Jan. 1881. 10 June ,, 
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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 : — 
27 Oct. 1880. 23 Feb. 1881. 
24 Nov. ,, 23 Mar. ,, 
22Decs—s Di Apres 
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. ,, S-Apr. 5; 
10 Dec. ,, 18 May ,, 
14 Jan. 1881. 10 June _,, 
11 Feb. ,, 
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 : — 
7 Sept. 1880. 4 Jan.1881. 
SOc «5, 1 Feb. ,, 
2 Nov. ,, Mar; 
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G: H. Bowtgs, Secretary. 
PRIZE ESSAYS. 
Due 15 Oct. 1882.— Life-histories of Sclero- 
stoma syngamus and of Strongilus pergracilis. See 
Psycue, v. 3, p. 59. 
