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THE EUROPEAN WHITE GRUB. 



We do not know which to woiul ir at the most, the industry of the 

 woman or the numbers in which the White Grub (hirva of the Euro- 

 pean Melolontha vulgaris) must have occurred in the soil, in the state- 

 ment made by M. Keiset and quoted in ^-La Nature^'' for the 18th of 

 May, where it is stated that in a field of about one hectare (2.471 acres) 

 a single woman collected 759 pounds (oil kilooiams) of these White 

 drubs or Cock Chafer larvie in 15 days. The actual number of grubs 

 was estimated at 180,000. 



A WHEAT PEST IN CYPRUS. 



Mr. A. E. Shipley, of Cambridge, England, has just published a pre- 

 liminary rei)ort on the species of Tineina which injures wheat croj)s in 

 Cyi)rus (Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information, lloyal Gardens, Kew, 

 No. 30, June, 1880, pages 133-135). This insect is CEcoplwra tempera- 

 tclla, a species which occurs at Beyrout and Libya, and is widely distrib- 

 uted throughout Palestine. The damage is done by the larva in min- 

 ing the leaves and stems of the wheat. Many thousands of bushels of 

 grain are lost through its woik. The information which Mr. Shijjley 

 has received has so lar been very fragmentary. 



THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON. 



June 27, 1^39. — Mr. G. W. J. Augell, of New York City, was elected a correspoiuliii j; 

 uieuiber of the society. 



Dr. Marx read a note giving tbo record of the numbers (210,000,000) of May beetles 

 collected and destroyed in Tncliel, Ponierania. Mr. W. H. Ashmead read a dcscriit- 

 tive paper entitled "An Anomalous Chalcid," in which he erected a new genus and 

 species {Iloplocri'inn albkJuvis), for a CLalcid collecUd by the late Dr. R. S. Turner, 

 at Fort George, F!a. The paper w-as discussed by Messrs. Howard and Schwarz. 



Mr. L. O. Howard called the attention of the society to soiue enlarged figures of the 

 mouth i)arts o( PeriphDutn oricutalis in Miall and Denny's work on the Cockroach, in 

 which no indication is given of a diijilns proceeding from near the tip of the lacinia 

 corresponding to the one occurring in P. americcnia described by him at a recent meet- 

 ing of the society. Mr. Howard then brietiy reviewed Miss Ormerod's recent book on 

 South African Insects, and concluded Lis contributions by reading Hy. Edwards's 

 paper, prepared for Inskct Life and published in the present unmber, on Noises 

 made by Lepidoptera. This very interesting paper called forth a considerable discus- 

 sion by various members relative to the noises of Lepidoptera and other insects. 



Mr. E. A. Schwarz presented a paper entitled Myrmecophilous Insects and a cata- 

 logue of Myrmecophilous Coleoptera, exhiliiting sj)ecimcns of the Coleoptera treated. 

 'I'lie pa|>er was a v(!ry valuable contril)utiou to our knowledge of the insect parasites 

 auil mcsbuiatcs of ants, and was discussed by Dr. Marx, Mr. Ashmead, and others. 



C. L. Mahi.att, 

 Acthi'j Pwcordbuj Secrclarij. 



