156 



THE REPORTED DEATH OF M, KUNCKEL D'HERCULAIS. 



Entomologists in this country were greatly shocked last May by a dis- 

 patch which appeared in many of our newspapers, purporting to come 

 from Algiers May 18, announcing the death under remarkable circum- 

 stances of M. Jules Kiinckel d'Herculais, ex-president of the Entomolog- 

 ical Society of France, and French commissioner to Algiers to study 

 the Migratory Locust. It was stated that this well-known entomologist 

 was overcome by a swarm of locusts and almost completely devoured 

 by them. We were loath to believe this statement, and in consequence 

 waited for its verification before publishing M. Kiinckel's obituary in 

 Insect Life, though we based on the report some notes of his work in 

 a communication to the Scientific American. It now appears that he is 

 still alive, and will doubtless take great pleasure in seeing for himself 

 the great esteem in which he is held in the entomological world, by 

 reading a variety of obituary notices in several languages. The Bulletin 

 Entomologique of the Societe Entomologique de France, dated the 24:th 

 of June, quotes from a paper read by M. Kiinckel before the Agricul- 

 tural Society of Algiers on May 30, 12 days after the date of his reported 

 death. 



A NEW H^MATOBIA: THE MOOSE FLY. 



Mr. William A. Snow, University of Kansas, Lawrence, has given a 

 very interesting account {Canadian Entomologist., xxiii, April, 1891, pp. 

 87-89) of a near relative of the Horn-fly {Hcemaiohia serrata) which 

 attacks the moose in the great cranberry swamps of northern Minnesota. 

 The insect was studied and collected by Prof. L. L. Dyche, the enthusi- 

 astic naturalist-hunter of the University of Kansas. 



The flies were originally discovered on skinning the first moose shot. 

 A number of the flies were found 2 or 3 inches within the creature's 

 rectum, where they were supposed to have crawled to oviposit. 



Afterwards, in 19 moose killed. Professor Dyche found the flies about 

 them, not leaving the carcasses as long as they lay uuskinned, which 

 was frequently from 24 to 36 hours. 



The flies are said to prefer the region of the head, rump, and legs, 

 where the hair is shortest, and are supposed to be similar in habit to 

 the Horn-fly, although no observations could, of course, be made on 

 living animals. 



Mr. Snow finds the species to be distinct from serrata^ and described 

 the male and female as Hcematobia aids. 



MISS ORMEROD'S RESIGNATION. 



Miss Ormerod has just issued to her friends and correspondents a 

 little slip announcing her resignation of the oflice of consulting entomol- 

 ogist of the Royal Agricultural Society of England, partly, as she states, 

 on account of her health. With the advent of cold weather she finds 



