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Loudon he visited Mr. W. Scliauis, Jr., who has collected in Mexico and 

 South America, and who jjossesses many of the types described in the 

 Biolo(/ia CentraU- Americana and will probably donate his collections 

 to the IS^atioual Museum. At Paris Prof. Smith found many of the 

 insects studied by Guen^e and Boisduval in the museum in the Jardin 

 des Plantes. At Berlin he studied the collections of the Itoyal Museum 

 and at Dresden the Staudiuger collections, having an opiiortunity to 

 compare a large series from the Siberian, Alaskan, and Icelandic and 

 other arctic faunal regions. He hopes soon to publish the synonymical 

 notes which he has collected, and informs us that these will sadly disar- 

 range the just-published check list of the Noctuidse. One of the results 

 of his journey, which he mentions to us incidentally, is to the effect that 

 Zanclognatha minimalis, which we referred to on p. Ill of the current 

 volume of Insect Life, is the same as HermiajrrotunmosalisWsdkeT and 

 that the latter name must replace Mr. Grote's name. 



Prof. Smith's experience in London, Paris, and Berlin corroborates 

 our own in similar investigations, in that the collections in London are 

 by aU means the most available, important, and instructive to the stu- 

 dent ; those of Berli n next, while those of Paris are in a most unsatisfac- 

 tory condition, and are of comparatively little avail. He reports that 

 he found no collections superior to the Katioual Collection in condition, 

 arrangement, and accessibility of material. 



A USEFUL BEETLE MITE. 



It seems that the common Uropoda americaiia Riley, found so abun- 

 dantly upon the Colorado Potato Beetle, has appeared in great numbers 

 on the grounds of the Experiment Station at Columbus, Ohio, and has 

 nearly exterminated the Striped Cucumber-beetle. Our agent, Mr. 

 Webster, has sent numbers of these mites to several diiferent localities 

 with the idea of colonizing them in localities where this beetle is abun- 

 dant. He announces, in the Indiana Farmer of August 8, that he is 

 willing to send a supply of mites to any gardener who may apply. 



CHANGE OF LOCATION. 



Prof. Charles W, Hargitt, formerly professor of biology in Miami 

 University at Oxford, Ohio, and one of the charter members of the 

 Association of Economic Entomologists, has been appointed to the 

 chair of biology in Syracuse University, to succeed Prof. Lucien M, 

 Underwood, who has gone to De Pauw University. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON. 



November 5, 1891. — Messrs. Theo. Gill and C. \V. Stiles were elected active members 

 of the society, and Rev. C. J. S. Betlinne, of Port Hope, Canada, and Prof. H. A. Mor- 

 gan, of Baton Rouge, La., corresponding members. 



Under short notes, etc., Mr. Schwarz exhibited some fine and complete examples 

 of the galleries made by Hylesinus svriceus in the bark of Abies menzlesli, from the 

 Wahsatch Mountains of Utah. These galleries closely resemble those made by the 

 species of Scolytus. 



