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Clypeadon, new genus {C. \-notatus Ashm.). Female: clypeus eden- 

 tate, dorsal valve subquadrate. ventral valve bilobate ; otherwise as in 

 Aphilanthops, but the abdomen shorter. Type Aph. quadrinotatus Ashtn. 

 Bull. Col. Biol. Assoc, i. p. 7 (1890).— \V. H. Patton. 



A FEW days ago my father captured a troublesome fly, and, as he held 

 it, found to his surpise that three Pseudoscorpions had left it and were 

 crawling rapidly over his hand. Upon this more flies were captured and 

 three found infested with Pseudoscorpions. Of fifty flies captured the 

 following day two carried Pseudoscorpions, one had two attached to a 

 single leg. In each case the Pseudoscorpions hung on by a single pincer. 

 — Frederick Knab, Chicopee. Mass. 



Another honor. — Societe Entomologique de Russie. St. Petersbourg, 

 Nov. 15, 1896. Sir — Rendering homage to the eminent services which, 

 during a long series of years, you have not ceased to render to entomo- 

 logical science by your distinguished works on agricultural entomology, 

 on the Lepidoptera, the Hymenoptera, etc., the Entomological Society 

 of Russia, in its full session of October i, have unanimously elected you 

 an honorary member of the society. Having the honor to transmit to 

 you the diploma, which is sent by itself, I hasten to add the expression 

 of my sentiments of esteem and devotion. P. de Semenow, Senator of 

 the Empire, President of the Society. 



Professor Alpheus Packard received this letter from Russia announcing 

 his unanimous election to the Entomological Society of Russia. This 

 honor comes as a result of the work published by Professor Packard this 

 year in the Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences of the United 

 States ("Monograph of the Bombycine Moths of America, North of 

 Mexico"). — Brown Herald 



Westward. — On August 19th I made a trip to the Cazenovia Creek, 

 about eight miles from Buffalo, with the intention to capture a number 

 of Cicindela ancocisconensis to present to the entomologists that might 

 come to Buffalo to attend the forty-fifth meeting of the American Asso- 

 ciation for the Advancement of Science that met here for the fourth time, 

 from August 24th to 29th. I was somewhat disappointed to capture only 

 one specimen owing, perhaps, to the dryness which had prevailed during 

 this and last season. I however used my umbrella beating willows which 

 g^ow profusely near the banks of the creek. I was ver>' much surprised 

 to find a number of Cryptorhynchiis lapathi L. Our lamented friend, 

 Wm. Juelich, had supplied me with a fine set several years ago, which 

 he took near New York and in New Jersey, telling me at the time to be 

 on the lookout for it. This -ueek I went out there again in company with 

 several visiting entomologists and found more of the Curculio. and on 

 close research discovered the holes in the stems of the willows from which 

 the Curculios had emerged. To make proof positive, we cut off some 

 of the willows and found the larva in all stages of life. This shows the 

 rapid spread of this pest. We also found quite a number of Crioceris 



