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"hand-over-hand" on a rope. The Quaker could not fight, but he picked 

 up a hatchet and said to the boarder, " Friend, if thee wants that rope 

 thee may have it," and he cut it in two. The same thing occurred to 

 myself: I thought if the ants needed the ointment more than I did they 

 might have it, so I took it out of the jar and mixed with it about a quarter 

 teaspoonful of white arsenic (arsenious acid). I have not seen an ant in 

 that room since.— Henry Skinner. 



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Entomological Literattire. 



Under the above head it is intended to note such papers received at the Academy of 

 "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. Nature. London, April 8, 1897. — Acquired immunity from insect 

 stings, E. S. Morse, G. Macloskie. New works on classification of Le- 



pidoptera. Anon., fig. April 29. — On the color and color patterns of 



moths and butterflies, A. R. W. 



2. Natural Science. London, April, 1897.— Are the Arthropoda a 

 natural group, E. R. Lankester. 



3. La Feuille des jeunes Naturalistes. Paris, April i, 1897. — 

 Notes on Hyptiotes anceps ( Arachnida) and description by Dr. T. Thorell, 



J. Castelnau, figs. 



4. Bulletin de la Societe des Sciences Naturelles de l'Ouest 

 X)E LA France vi, 4. Nantes, Dec. 31, 1896.— On a flight of Harpalus 

 observed last Summer, Abb6 J. Dominique. 



5. Archiv fur Naturgeschichte, Ixii, i, 3. Berlin, February, 1897. 

 — Contributions to the knowledge of palaearctic Myriapoda — iv, C. Ver- 

 hoeff", 5 pis. 



6. Science Gossip. London, April, 1897. — A new mealy bug {Dacty- 

 lopius pseudonipai), T. D. A. Cockerell. 



7. Bulletin de la Societe Zoologique de France, xxi. Paris, 

 1896. — The state of the social wasps of Brazil, H. von Ihering. Ants, 



