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W. E. Gladstone recently remarked : "I think that the neglect of 

 natural history, in all its mult-tude of branches, was the grossest defect 

 of our old system of training for the young." 



Meleoma signoretti Fitch. — This curious lace-wing Hy has not been 

 recorded since Fitch described it; and no other species of the genus are 

 known. Mrs. A. T. Slosson has lately sent me two specimens of it from 

 Mt. Washington, N. H.— N. Banks. 



The Second Number of the "Transactions" of the American Ento- 

 mological Society for 1895, contains the following papers : Studies in 

 Coccinellidse, by G. H. Horn, M.D.; Notes on Bees, with descriptions 

 of new species, by Chas. Robertson; The Crabroninae of Boreal America, 

 by Wm. J. Fox. The third number, now in press, will contain the fol- 

 lowing papers : A Review of the Stratiomyia and Odontomyia of North 

 America, by C. W. Johnson; The Species of Dineutes of America, north 

 of Mexico, by C. H. Roberts; Descriptions of new Hymenoptera, by T. 

 D. A. Cockerell; On the Larvae of some Nematoid and other Saw flies 

 from the Northern Atlantic States, by Harrison G. Dyar; New Neurop- 

 teroid Insects, by Nathan Banks. 



The Glow Worm's Light. — A contemporary mentions that photo- 

 graphs have before now been produced by the light from glow worms; 

 in the examination of a particular insect, Photimis coruscus, which emits 

 luminous rays, A. F. Miller has shown that the specimens examined did 

 not seem to give out any blue or violet light, thus supporting Prof. S. P. 

 Langley's conclusion that Nature produces the most economical kind of 

 light, which may be supposed to mean that, as the insect has no need for 

 photographic light, it does not produce it. It is, however, to be stated 

 that photographic experiments have not been tried with this Photinus, so 

 far as we are aware. — Newspaper. 



