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fine specimen now stands before me in a bottle. I have just come 

 Lome from a tour round the North, and I have seen it iu two vineyards 

 in our principal grape-growing country. I am disgusted. Oue man 

 dug up the vines and burned them as soon as he was aware of it. The 

 other refused unless his neighbors would pay him £10. What can I 

 do for such a people as this? Maskell is advising the Government to 

 compel all vine owners in infected districts to burn their vines, whether 

 they are infected or not (the insect could do no more). I am advising 

 them to severely punish people who refuse to burn infected vines, when 

 it has once been pointed out to them, and to either compel or encour- 

 age others to shift on to proof roots. * * * — [R. Allan Wight,, 

 Paeroa, Auckland, New Zealand, March 15, 1890. 



'proceedings of the ENTOMOLOaiCAL SOCIETY OP WASHINGTON. 



Number 4 of Volume 1 of the Proceedings of the Entomological Soci- 

 ety of Washington has just been published. This number is furnished 

 with an index to the whole volume which it completes. It contains 

 about 100 pages and includes, among the shorter notes, papers by Mr. 

 Schwarz, on the Coleoptera common to North America and other coun- 

 tries; notes on the comparative vitality of insects in cold water; stray 

 notes on injurious insects in tropical Florida; notes on the Tobacco 

 Beetle {Lasioderma serricorne) ) notes on Cicada septendecim in 1889; 

 food plants and food habits of some North American Coleoptera; Myr- 

 mecophilous Coleoptera found iu temperate North America, and sud- 

 den spread of a new enemy to clover [Sitones hispidulus) ; by Mr. How- 

 ard, note on the hairy eyes of some Hymenoptera; note on the mouth- 

 parts of the American Cockroach ; authorship of the Family Mymaridte, 

 and a few additions and corrections to Scudder's Nomeuclator Zoologi- 

 cus; by Mr. F. Y. Coville, notes on Bumble-bees; by Judge L. C. 

 Johnson, the Jigger Flea iu Florida; by Mr. Marlatt, swarming of 

 Lyc(vna comyntas ; an ingenious method of collecting Bombus and 

 Apathus, and abundance of Oak-feeding Lepidopterous larvfe in the 

 fall of 1889 ; by Baron Osten Sacken, correction to the monographs of 

 the Uiptera of North America, Vol. I, 1862; by Mr. Ashmead, some 

 remarks on South American Chalcids; an anomalous Chalcid {Hoplo- 

 crepis n. g,, albiclavus n. sp.), and remarks on the Chalcid genus Hali- 

 dea ; by Mr. Townsend, notes on some interesting flies from the vicin- 

 ity of Washington, D. C; on the fall occurrence of Bibio and Dilophus, 

 and a further note on Dissosteira {(Edlpoda) Carolina; by Professor 

 Lugger, on the migrations of the Milkweed Butterfly. In addition to 

 these are many shorter notes by Professor Kiley, Dr. Marx, Dr. Fox, 

 Mr. Mann, and others. 



The first volume, being now complete, may be obtained from the cor- 

 responding secretary of the society, Mr. Tyler Townsend, Department 

 of Agriculture, Washington, for $3. 



