PSYCHE. 
ENTOMOLOGICAL ITEMS. 
“IN MY OPINION you not only render service 
to science by the publication in your columns of 
original memoirs on general entomology, but you 
are and will be still more more useful to savants 
by your bibliographical record.”,—A. Rosin, 
Paris, France, 4 Feb. 1880. 
TuovucH sur indirectly entomological, by 
serving as a guide to the newspapers in the 
United States, where entomological articles may 
be found, Rowell’s Newspaper Directory may be 
mentioned here as the one great authority upon 
its subject. We as bibliographers may strain a 
point to call attention to the foremost work of 
its kind. 
Unver tHe name of Société d’Etudes Zoologi- 
ques, a society has recently been established in 
Paris, for the purpose of forming a library of 
general zoology, from which books may be 
loaned to members living at a distance from 
great libraries. The members, moreover, ex- 
change analyses of recent works, and the officers 
undertake to make bibliographical researches in 
the libraries of Paris for their colleagues residing 
elsewhere. 
Dr. Oskar Krancuer, of Leipzig, son of 
Mr. L. Krancher, the editor of the Deutscher 
' Bienenfreund, will soon publish a dissertation 
containing the results of his studies upon the 
stigmata of insects. These studies were made 
in the zoological laboratory of Leipzig univer- 
sity, during the past summer, under the direction 
of Professor R. Leuckart. 
_ Tue Frencu government are trying to intro- 
duce the culture of the vine in New Caledonia. 
The grasshoppers will not allow the sugar-cane 
to grow, and they soon strip maize; so that the 
people have to import from Sidney what would 
grow luxuriantly on their own land were it free 
from these pests.—Colonies and India, 23 Oct 
1880, p. 9. 
ENERGETIC MEASURES are being taken by the 
government [of Cyprus] for the suppression of 
the plague of the locust, each inhabitant being 
bound to send in eight okes (about 19 lbs.) 
[really 22.63 lbs. = 10.26 Kg.] weight of locust 
eggs. Many thousand pounds weight are thus 
sent in and destroyed.—Colonies and India, 6 
Nov. 1880, p. 13. 
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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. ,, 8-Apr.” -,; 
10 Dec. ,, 13 May ,, 
14 Jan. 1881. 10 June ,, 
chimley vs. 
B: Prckman 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. ,, 21 Apr aes 
26 Jan. 1881. 25 May ,, 
- B: Prokman Mann, Secretary. 
THE REGULAR meetings of the Entomological 
Section of the Academy of Natural Sciences, of 
Philadelphia, Pa., will be held at 8. W. corner of 
19th and Race Sts., on the days following : — 
8 Oct. 1880. 11 Mar. 1881. 
12 Nov. ,, SiApr, 5, 
10 Dec. ,, 15 May ,, 
14 Jan. 1881. 10 June ,, 
Id 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. 15 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 : — 
: Sept. 1880. 4 Jan.1881. 
Oct. 5; L Feb... ,, 
ZaINOW ce 8 35 1 Mar. ,, 
fowec: 5 Apr. ,, 
G: H. Bowtgs, Secretary. 
PRIZE ESSAYS. 
Due 15 Ocr. 1882.—Life-histories of Sclero- 
stoma syngamus and of Strongilus pergracilis. See 
PsycueE, v. 3, p. 59. 
