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nate iu that none of the three gentlemen whom he mentioned had any- 

 thing to do with the matter beyoDd receiviug the specimens and at- 

 tempting to colonize them. 



Entomologiske Meddelelser, udgivne af Entomologisk Forening ved Fr. 

 Meinert, Copenhagen. — This is the title of a new journal, of which we 

 have received the first five numbers through the Smithsonian Institu- 

 tion. The name of its editor is a guaranty of the excellence of its con- 

 tents, a large proportion of which are from his pen. Unlike English 

 journals, this paper contains no prospectus, no price, no indication as 

 to where it is to be obtained, and no date except that of the year. It is 

 printed in good style, on good paper, and in the Danish language ex- 

 clusively. In the numbers before us there seems evident an intention 

 of giving as complete a list of the Danish insect fauna as possible. The 

 Orthoptera have been completed and the Coleoptera are making good 

 progress. We are glad to greet a new friend. 



The Rural New Yorl-er potato contest has been decided and the so- 

 called Rural Seedling No. 2 yielded at the rate of 1,070 bushels to the 

 acre. No. 3 lost the day and was nearly a failure on account of the 

 ravages of the common Flea-beetle {Crepidodera cucumeris). Probably 

 the yield of No. 2 would have been greater but for this cause. This in- 

 sect has been particularly destructive during the past season upon the 

 Eural farm, confining its attack to the leaves and terminal shoots. 



It is now proposed to start a potato contest for ladies, the patches 

 to be limited to one-fortieth of an acre or thereabouts. The details, 

 however, are not fixed. 



We have received from Prof. Dr. K. Lindeman, of Moscow, a report 

 upon the diseases of tobacco in Bessarabia. The report, unfortunately 

 for American students, is published in Russian and not in the German, 

 iu which Professor Lindeman usually writes. He discusses principally 

 the Tenebrionid beetle, Opatrum intermedium, a species which is con- 

 fined to southern Russia, and the larva of which attacks the stem un- 

 derground. The larva also feeds upon wheat, Atriplex and Convolvu- 

 lus. Ee also discusses the injury done by aThrips {Thrips tabaci) and 

 another Tenebrionid — Pedinus femoralis. 



We have received from George W. Peckham and Elizabeth Peckham 

 a paper entitled "The North American Spiders of the Family Attidae," 

 which has the appearance of a careful and most conscientious work. 



