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A NEW entomological society, without 
definite place of meeting, is proposed in 
France. 
AN ENTOMOLOGICAL periodical. the HW7e- 
ner entomologische Zeitung, will be com- 
menced in January 1882 at Vienna, Austria. 
Its price will be eight marks a year. 
Mr. B: PICKMAN MANN was appointed As- 
sistant Entomologist of the United States 
Department of Agriculture, 23 July 1881, and 
entered upon his duties 1 Sept. 1881. 
W. W. Fow Ler states, in the Extom. mo. 
mag., June 1881, v. 18, p. 18-19, that a speci- 
men of rhagium inguisttor, on which he 
experimented, supported by the clinch of its 
jaws a suspended weight 547 times the weight 
of itself. 
Mr. AuGustus R. GrRoTe has sold his 
fine collection of North American lepidoptera. 
for five thousand dollars, the British Museum 
of London, Eng., being the purchaser. Thus, 
by the neglect of home institutions to secure 
this collection, replete with typical specimens, 
it has been lost permanently to the country 
where it belonged. 
A WELL-KNOWN resident in Quebec is 
about to establish an apiary in the city on a 
very extensive scale. He has sent to Ceylon 
to obtain a special species of bee recently dis- 
covered in that island by Mr. Benton, the 
American apiarist. It is stated that Mr. 
Jones, of Beeton, Ontario, sold 37,000 Ibs. 
{16,783 Kilos.] of honey from his apiary du- 
ring last year.— Colonies and India, 10 Dec. 
1881, p. 4. 
THE FOLLOWING paragraph was crowded 
out of Dr. H. A. Hagen’s article on psocina, 
on p. 220 of the current volume of PsYCHE :— 
I am not prepared to give any satisfactory 
explanation of the use of the pterostigma- 
hook. It seems doubtless that it will serve 
for some purpose, but I think not for copula- 
tory purposes, as it occurs in both sexes. It 
seems to be more developed in the genera 
which jump easily, and perhaps it may serve 
as a point of support for the intended motion 
of jumping. The pterostigma is apparently 
a blood sinus, serving as regulator of the 
blood circulation. 
SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
THE REGULAR Meetings of the Cambridge 
Entomological Club will be held at 7.45 p.m., 
on the days following :— 
14 Oct. 1881. 1o Mar. 1882. 
11 Nov. 14 Apr. 
9 Dec. 12 May 
13 Jan. 1882. g June 
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B: PrIcKMAN 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 : — 
26 Oct. 1881. 22 Feb. 1882. 
23 Nov. 22 Mar. 
28 Dec. 26 Apr. 
25 Jan. 1882. 24 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 
5S. W. corner of 19th and Race Sts., on the 
days following :— 
14 Oct. 1881. 10 Mar. 1882. 
11 Nov. 14. Apr. 
oDecr es 12 May 
13 Jan. 1882. g June 
10,Feb.. * 
James H. RipinGs, /eecorder. 
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 :— 
12 Dec. 1881. 12 June 1882. 
James H. RipinoGs, 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 :— 
6 Sept. 188r. 3 Jan. 1882. 
4 Oct. 7 Feb. 
t Nov. 4 Mar. 
6 Dec. ACA DES eS 
G: H. Bowes, Secretary. 
PRIZE ESSAYS. 
Due 15 Oct. 1882.—Lite-histories of Sc/e- 
rostoma syngamus and of Strongilus pergra- 
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