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"It must be a remarkably antique borer," said Pater. "It will do very- 

 well," remarked Pater, "but I think the old bedbug story will cap it.'' 

 "What was that?" asked ego, "A man had an old skillet, which had 

 seen much hard use for two generations. One day he broke it, and a 

 bedbug fell out and started at once for upstairs," "Cast in?" exclaimed 

 Homo; "Exactly." "I wonder," mused Mater, "if that man was any 

 relation to the one at the hotel ? " " What about him ? " " One day he 

 put up at an old hotel, and on coming down-stairs for the first time, he 

 found " one " on the register endeavoring to make out the number of his 

 room." "I guess so," remarked Omnes. 



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Entomological Literature. 



Under the above head it is intended to note such papers received at the .Academy ol' 

 Natural Sciences of Philadelphia pertaining to the Entomology of the Americas (North 

 and South). Articles irrelevant to American entomology, unless monographs, or con- 

 taining descriptions of new genera, will not be noted. Contributions to the anatomy of 

 insects, however, whether relating to American or exotic species will be recorded. 



1. Transactions of the American Entomological Society, xxiii, 

 4, October- December, 1896. Philadelphia. Received Feb. 16, 1.S97 — 

 Revision of the genera and species of Ceulorhynchini inhabiting North 

 America, W. G. Dietz, 3 pis. List of members of the American Ento- 

 mological Society. 



2. Monitors Zoologico Italiano, viii, i. Florence, January, 1897. — 

 A. Berlese's ' Ricerche sugli organi e sulla funzione della digestione negli 

 Acari,' S. Carazzi. E. Verson's 'La borsa copulatrice nei Lepidotteri,' id. 



3. CoMPTES Rendus. L'Academie des Sciences. Paris, Jan. 25,. 

 1897. — On the biology of the brilliant Hylesi7ius \^Dendroctonus micans\, 

 A. .Menegaux and J. Cochon. On the pseudo larval copulation of some 

 plumicolous Sarcoptidae, S. fourdain. Phenomena of autotomy observed 

 in the nymphs of Monandroptera inuncatis Serv. and of Rhaphiderus 



scabrosiis Serv., E. Bordage. February 15. — New observations on the 



Sesamias, lepidoptera injurious to maize, sugar-cane, sorghum, etc. ; the- 



