1894.] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 47 



Notes and. New^s. 



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Deceased. — Prof. P. M. Ferrari in Geneva. 



Dr. George H. Horn was elected an Honorary Member of the Ento- 

 mological Society of Belgium on Dec. 26, 1893. 



Pictures for the album of the American Entomological Society have 

 been received from A. D. Hopkins, Rev. G. D. Hulst, H. G. Dyar, Levi 

 VV. Mengel. F. H. Hillman, E. P. Van Duzee. 



I have taken, at Chicago, in July two Myrmeleonidae new to the State 

 of Illinois ; — Ulula quadripunctata Burm. and Colobopterus excistis Hag. 

 The former was taken at a lamp and the latter at an electric light. Both 

 are rare, and of Colobopterus not many specimens are known. — ^J. E. Mc- 

 D.^DE, Kensington, 111. 



Transactions of American Entomological Society for October, Novem- 

 ber and December, 1893, have just been issued, closing volume x.x, with 

 374 pages and 7 plates. The following were contributors : W. H. Ash- 

 mead, Nathan Banks. E. Brendel, P. P. Calvert. T. D. A. Cockerel!, 

 W. J. Fox, G. H. Horn, C. Robertson, J. B. Smith, C. H. T. Townsend 

 and C. M. Weed. 



The life-history of but one or two species of the family Nemistrinidae 

 has hitherto been published. Recently, in looking through Prof. Bruner's 

 collection of Diptera, in the University of Nebraska, I discovered a female 

 specimen of the rare Rhynchocephaliis sackeni W'lW., which was of yet more 

 interest from the following note given me by Prof. Bruner : "Taken while 

 apparently depositing eggs in the stem of Eriogonum alatum. Its actions 

 were very similar to those of a bot-fly ; it was so absorbed in its work that 

 it might have been captured with the fingers." The fly is evidently a 

 rapid flyer, like its allies, the Bombyliidae. It has an elongated ovipostor, 

 but doubtfully of sufficient strength to pierce woody tissue. The eggs of 

 Hirtnoneiira obscura are deposited in the holes of wood-boring insects, 



