, PSYCHE. 
ENTOMOLOGICAL ITEMS. 
Henry Hott & Co., of New York, will 
soon publish a general illustrated work, by 
Samuel Hubbard Scudder, on the structure, 
metamorphoses, habits, ornamentation, di- 
morphism, ancestry, and other peculiarities 
of butterflies, including life-histories of a 
large number of North American species. 
* Dr. AUERBACH, writing to the ‘*‘ Chemiker- 
Zeitung,” mentions as a curious fact that 
during an entire summer he observed water- 
beetles — probably Gyrnus natator — living 
in tanks of a saturated solution of Glauber’s — 
salt. When alarmed the beetles took shelter 
under the crystals, just as they do in ordinary 
circumstances under water plants. A little 
of the liquid so harmless to insects, having 
found its way by leakage into an adjoining 
river, proved fatal to multitudes of fish. — 
Fourn. of sct., March 1880, p. 213. 
AT THE sixty-eighth meeting of the Société 
Helvétique des Sciences Naturelles in Brigue, 
13-15 September 1880, Mr. Joseph Anderegg, 
of Gamsen, a village near Brigue, exhibited a 
fine collection of about a thousand species of 
the lepidoptera of the region. Many of the 
species were represented by numerous speci- 
‘mens, and the collection, which gave a good 
idea of the lepidopterous fauna of the Simp- 
lon region, was very finely prepared and pre- 
served. ; 
Tue U.S. Entomological Commission de- 
signs preparing for publication a bibliography 
of the economic entomology of the United 
States and Canada, in the same style as the 
Bibliographical Record of Psycue. This bib- 
liography will contain references to papers, 
articles and notes in agricultural and popular 
scientific periodicals, and in journals devoted 
to bee culture, and as complete as possible 
references will be made to notes on economic 
entomology in those periodicals which ap- 
peared prior to 1850. The compiler, Dr. A. 
S. Packard, ir., Secretary of the commission, 
requests that authors will forward to him, at 
Providence, R. I., full records of their pub- 
lications upon this subject, made out in the 
adopted style. 
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SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
|THE REGULAR meetings of the Cambridge 
Entomological Club will be held at 19 Follen 
St., at 7.45 p.m., on the days following : — 
8 Oct. 1880. 11 Mar. 1881. 
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B: PicKMAN MANN, Secretary. 
THE REGULAR meetings of the Entomologi- 
cal Section of the Boston Society of Natural 
History will be held at N. W. corner of Berke- 
ley and Boylston Sts., Boston, Mass., at 7.45 
p-m., on the days following :— 
247 Oct. 1880. 23 Feb: 1881. 
2A. Nov... <* 23 Mar. ‘° 
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26 Jan. 1881. 25 May ‘ 
B: PickMAN MANN, Secretary. 
THE REGULAR meetings of the Entomolog- 
ical-Section of the Academy of Natural Sci- 
ences, 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, Noy.3 4° SApr: °° 
TOLWEc.) » raMay. — <¢ 
14 Jan. 1881 Tojune 4S 
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James H. Ripincs, Recorder. 
THE SEMI-ANNUAL meetings of the Amer- 
ican Entomological Society will be held at 
S. W. corner of 19th and Race Sts., Philadel- 
phia, Pa., on the days following : — 
13 Dec. 188o. 13 June, 1881. 
James H. Ripincs, Pec. Sec’y. 
THE REGULAR monthly meetings of the 
Montreal Branch of the Entomological So- 
ciety of Ontario will be held at Montreal, 
Que., Canada, on the days following : — 
7 pent 1880. aes 1881. 
5 Oct. § TED per 
PING Ven Mar. © 
pm Dee. )> 4 HAprae 
G: H. BowLes, Secretary. 
PRIZE ESSAYS. 
Due 15 Oct. 1882.— Life-histories of Scle- 
vostoma syngamus and of Strongilus pergra- 
cilis. See PSYCHE, v. 3, p- 59- 
