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ENTOMOLOGICAL ITEMS. 
Dr. JouN LAWRENCE LECONTE has been 
elected one of the eight honorary members 
of the Deutsche Entomologische Gesell- 
schaft, of Berlin. 
CounT GEORGES VANDALIN MNESZECH, 
the possessor of the largest private collection 
of coleoptera in the world and one extremely 
rich in superb specimens, died at Paris, 17 
Noy. 1881, aged 58. 
M. ConsTANT VAN DEN BRANDEN, 69 
rue de la Madeleine, Brussels, will publish, 
commencing in 1882, a Revue coléoptérolo- 
gique, in which all new coleoptera will be 
published. 
THE ENTOMOLOGICAL conferences of the 
Société royale linnéenne de Bruxelles, for 
the winter period of 1881-1882, will take 
place 15 Jan. and 12 Feb. 1882, and will be 
conducted by Monsieur A. Preudhomme de 
Borre. 
Ir any American entomologist will send 
Mr. G. H. Verrall, Sussex Lodge, Newmarket, 
Cambridgeshire, England, one hundred or 
more species of North American axthomyidae, 
named or unnamed, Mr. Verrall will return 
a similar number of carefully named Euro- 
pean species. 
In THE General German Patent Exhibi- 
tion, at Frankfort-on-the-Main, Dr. Lucas 
von Heyden of Bockenheim, author of ‘‘Die 
Kafer von Nassau und Frankfurt” (1877), ex- 
hibits four boxes of injurious and one box of 
beneficial insects, and three boxes of cymip7- 
dae with their galls. Carl Gustav Scheffer, 
Postsekretir at Bockenheim, exhibits six 
boxes of lepidoptera. Both the above-men- 
tioned exhibitors receive silver medals. G. 
W. Winter, of the firm of Werner and Win- 
ter, lithographers in Frankfort, receives a 
bronze medal for the exhibition of their finely 
executed plates of oak-galls and gall-wasps, 
(Plates 10-12 of vol. 35 of the Zeitschrift fiir 
wissenchaftliche Zoologie). C. Becker, 
teacher in Jiiterbog, exhibits his adhesive 
preparation, which he terms ‘‘Brumala Leim,” 
used for catching noxious insects. 
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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. 10 Mar. 1882. 
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B: PickMAN MANN, Secretary. 
TAE 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. 
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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 tollowing :— 
14 Oct. 1881. 10 Mar. 1882. 
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James H. RivinGs, /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. RuipinGs, fec. 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. 188r1. 3 Jan. 1882. 
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G: H. Bow.es, Secretary. 
PRIZE ESSAYS. 
Due 15 Oct. 1882.—Life-histories of Sc/e- 
rostoma syngamus and of Strongtlus pergra- 
ctlzs. See PSYCHE, V. 3, Pp: 59- 
