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In an English paper, the Observer, of July 25, 1813, there is an account 

 of a " swarm of Bees resting them.selves on the inside of a lady's parasol." 

 They were hived without any serious injury to the lady. 



On the cover of Ent. News for January, 1895, I notice the figure of a 

 moth named Composia olympia. VV^ould it not be better to give the spe- 

 cies its older name, C. fidellissima H. S. ? I have already called Mr. 

 Butler's attention to the fact that he had redescribed Herrich-Schaffer's 

 species, and the types of C. olympia are now placed in the British Mu- 

 seum collection as C. fidellissima H.-S. — W. Schaus. 



The First Number of the new volume (.xxii) of the "Transactions" 

 of the American Entomological Society, now in press, will contain the 

 following papers: On the Oribatoidea of the United States, by Nathan 

 Banks; A Monograph of the tribe Bassini, by G. C. Davis; Descriptions 

 of a few new Pimplinae, by G. C. Davis; Contributions to the Dipter- 

 ology of North America, by C. H. Tyler Townsend. 



The wild Locusts upon which St. John fed have given rise to great 

 discussion — some authors asserting them to be the fruit of the carob tree, 

 while others maintain they were the true Locusts, and refer to the prac- 

 tice of the Arabs in Syria at the present day. "They who deny insects 

 to have been the food of this holy man," says Hasselquis*^, "urge that 

 this insect is an unaccustomary and unnatural food; but they would soon 

 be convinced of the contrary, if they would travel hither to Egypt, .'\rabia, 

 or Syria, and take a meal with the Arabs. Roasted Locusts are at this 

 time eaten by the Arabs, at the proper season, when they can procure 

 them; so that in all probability this dish has been used in the time of 

 St. John. Ancient customs are not here subject to many changes, and 

 the victuals of St. John are not believed unnatural here; and I was as- 

 sured by a judicious Greek priest that their church had never taken the 

 word in any other sense, and he even laughed at the idea of its being a 

 bird or a plant." — Cowan's Curious Facts. 



