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Prof. P. R. Uhler has lately been elected Provost of the Peabody 

 Academy of Sciences, Baltimore. 



Strangers to this Vicinity.— On September 8th, at the electric light, 

 I captured a fine, fresh Phlegethontius cingnlata, and on the morning of 

 October 4th found a beautiful Philampelus vitis on my veranda, appar- 

 ently just emerged. — ^Jas. S. Johnson. 



During the past month I have been watching the electric lights in the 

 streets closely for Euglyphia haroglyphisa, and I discovered that our 

 chickens are quite abreast of the times for smartness. One of our boys 

 lived near a light on the outskirts of the city that I knew in former year^ 

 to be a particularly good one, and I carefully instructed him to be up just 

 about daybreak every morning to get ahead of the chickens living in the 

 neighborhood. I may state here that the species does not seem to fly 

 much before 12 p.m. He met with very little success, and I determined 

 to investigate. I went Saturday night and watched, and the secret was 

 out; there was about a dozen chickens — they stay on the edge of the side- 

 walk all night — they seem to sleep a little while, wake up, walk out to the 

 light, fill up with the insects that have fallen, go back, sleep an hour lon- 

 ger, then go out and repeat it, keeping it up all night, in fact never go to 

 roost at all. How is that for industry?— J. T. Mason. 



I was interested in what Mr. E. P. Van Duzee says in the February 

 number of the Entomological News about "Another Immigration 

 Theory." I have in my collection an example oi Erebus odora which was 

 caught by Wm. H. Rice at 60 Park Ave., Chicago, 111., in 1887; 60 Park 

 Ave. is in the centre of the residence portion of the west side. He noticed 

 it fly under his front porch, and, procuring a strawberry-box, captured it 

 and brought it to me alive. After submitting it to a short stay in the cya- 

 nide bottle I spread it and found I had a prize. It is 6|4' in. spread, with 

 antennae i>^ in. long, perfect to the very tip. The moth is vfery perfect, 

 much more so than any specimen I have seen. It was evidently lately 

 hatched, and could not have come any great distance after emerging from 

 its chrysalis. — W. E. Longlev. 



A WELL-GROWN larva of Ecpantheria scribonia was mailed to me from 

 Charleston, S. C, Oct. 15, 1890, arriving two days later. Fed for two 



