PSYCHE. 
ENTOMOLOGICAL ITEMS. 
UNFAVORABLE WEATHER and insects are said 
to have done much damage to the hop plant this 
year. 
Tue FIFTY-FIFTH meeting of the German 
naturalists and doctors takes place 18 to 24 Sep- 
tember, this year, at Eisenach. 
DeEsTiruTIon is reported by the daily press 
as existing in Bolivia, in June, owing to the des- 
truction of the crops by locusts. 
Mr. N. F. Graves, President of the N. Y. 
State Banking Co., Syracuse, N. Y., has a library 
of over 10,000 volumes of books which is “open 
to all students and professional and scientific 
men.” ; i! 
Frye Cororapo beetles (Doryphora decemlin- 
eata) were found, according to reports in the 
newspapers, on board the Wisconsin at Liverpool 
recently, and, by order of the privy council, were 
killed and sent to London. 
Loctsts ARE devastating the United States of 
Columbia and notice has been given to Cuba to 
take measures to prevent their being conveyed 
in cattle: ships to Cuba and thence to the United 
States.—Springfield daily republican, 12 Aug. 1882. 
Buwerin no. 7 of the United States Entom- 
ological commission, compiled by Dr. A. 8. Pack- 
ard, jr., on “ Insects injurious to forest and shade 
trees,” a stout pamphlet of 275 pages and 100 
figures, was issued in March 1882. Only 2000 
copies were printed. 
Mr. Witriam T. Davis has found the earwig 
Anisolabis maritima (Bon.) very abundant under 
stones on the sea shore at Staten Island, N. Y. 
According to Scudder’s Synopsis this species, 
which has spread over a large part of the world, 
has never been found before in this country, 
north of North Carolina. 
»Pror. Cyrus Tuomas, of Carbondale, IIl., has 
resigned his position as state entomplogist of 
Illinois, after publishing six annual reports, and 
Prof. Stephen Alfred Forbes, director of the IIli- 
nois state laboratory of natural history, at Nor- 
mal, Ill., has been appointed state entomologist, 
dating his commission from 1 July 1882. 
Two New parasitic protozoans from the larva 
of Melolontha vulgaris and one from the larva of 
- locusts with which the island is infested. 
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Oryctes nasicornis were announced by J. Kunst- 
ler, 14 Aug., in the French Academy. One of 
the protozoans from the larva of MV. vulgaris is 
elongated and has six flagellums, the other is 
more globular and has only four flagellums. 
Tue THIRD part of the third volume of the 
Proceedings of the Davenport academy of natu- 
ral sciences is to be made a memorial of the late 
president of the academy, Joseph Duncan Put- 
nam, and will contain, amongst other matters, 
his unfinished work on the solpugidae, which has 
been arranged for publication by Prof. Herbert 
Osborne, of Ames College, Ames, Iowa. 
THE viGcoROUS measures taken for the destruc- 
tion of the locust plague in Cyprus have resulted, 
in the belief of the authorities, in the destruction 
of fully seven-eighths of the whole quantity of 
It is 
feared, however, that the survivors are still nume- 
rous enough to inflict much damage upon the 
wheat and other late crops.— Colonies and India, 
9 June 1882. 
WE CALL especial attention of the secretaries 
of the entomological societies in North America 
to our column of “Society meetings.” Those 
secretaries who have already sent us the dates 
of meeting for 1882-1883 are asked to examine 
the lists and see if the dates are correct, and the 
secretaries who have not yet sent us notices for 
the societies which they represent are hereby 
requested to do so. 
THE ADVERTISEMENTS in PsycueE will be fewer 
hereafter than heretofore, while the space deyo- 
ted to items will be increased ; all for the benefit 
of our subscribers, who are therefore requested 
to forward interesting items and new subscrip- 
tions. The attention of subscribers is asked to 
the mailing tag of this numero, the date of which 
is the date of the last numero paid for. Tags 
without a date inditate exchange or free copies. 
CuaRr_es GODFREY SIEWERS, of Newport, Ky., 
who has written articles on entomological sub- 
jects for the American naturalist, Canadian ento- 
mologist, and other periodicals, died 6 Sept. 1882, 
at 5 p.m., at his residence in Newport. He 
was born 24 May 1815 on the island of Santa 
Cruz in the Danish West Indies, and was a son 
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