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Mr. E. B. PouLTOx has been elected to the Hope Professorship at 

 Oxford^ which was made vacant by the death of J. O. Westwood. 



Prof. A. J. Cook, for many years professor of entomology in the 

 Agricultural College of Michigan, has removed to Claremont, Cal., where 

 he is professor of zoology in Pomona college. — " Insect Life." 



Dr. Westcott writes us that he took one example of Coniposia fidel- 

 issiina H. S., Jan. 2, 1894, at Jupiter, Fla. It was perfectly fresh and very 

 sluggish in flight, probably not long from the pupa. Nothing else was on 

 the wing, except some battered specimens of Eicdamus protens Linn, and 

 a few Diptera. 



An Imported Bostrvchus. — In looking over the material of a fellow 

 collector at Newark I found seven or eight specitnens of a Bosttyc/tiis 

 new to me. I asked where it was taken and was informed that it came 

 from parties working in a licorice-factory and was found flying around the 

 lights, the factory working night and day. In exploring the locality near 

 the factory I was unable to find where they could come from, until I 

 learned that some of the wood in use in the factory was imported from 

 Spain and Turkey. Suspecting, therefore, an imported species I handed 

 it to Prof. Sniith, who inforins me that, according to Dr. Horn, it is B. 

 capucinus, a species not heretofore recorded as having been taken in 

 North America. It is almost certain that the specimens were brought in 

 the material impoited for the use of the factory, and almost eciually cer- 

 tain that the species has not yet gotten a foothold on any American trees. 



— E. A. BiSCHOFF. 



Identity of Pezo.m.vchus and Hemiteles. — It har. long been the 

 opinion of experienced entomologists that Pezornachiis is but the wingless 

 form of Hemiteles. This generic identity, although pointed out by 

 Snellen von Vollenhoven, has been neglected in recent lists of Messrs. 

 Cresson and Howard, who admit the two forms as distinct genera. The 



