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compared with the very large number which seem to be infested earlier 

 in the season. Is it not, perhaps, possible that we have only a practical 

 second brood of this insect? I have raised the question here and now, in 

 order to bring out, if possible, any confirmatory or opposite experience 

 that any of the readers of the News may have to offer. I do not mean to 

 cast doubt upon the existence of a second brood of Codling moth. My 

 question is, are there not exceptions to this rule, and are not the exceptions 

 perhaps more numerous than the rule itself? Observations, if positive 

 on both sides of this question, would be extremely useful. 



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Hee curious calling. — In Paris some time ago the inhabitants of a 

 certain street were attacked by an inexplicable irritation of the skin. All 

 up and down the street people were scratching themselves from morning 

 till night. This sort of thing continued till all the dwellers in that locality 

 looked like lepers. Finally the authorities investigated the matter, and 

 found that the doings of a certain female resident in that quarter were the 

 cause of all the trouble. She was a breeder of ants, or more strictly, a 

 raiser of ants' eggs for the fattening of young pheasants. She wore a 

 close-fitting suit of leather to protect herself. She was compelled to 

 transport her establishment out of the city. — Philadelphia Record. 



Photopsis is NOCTURNAL. — I have to-day learned from Mr. Fox, much 

 to my surprise, that Hymenopterists are not aware that Photopsis is noc- 

 turnal in its habits; whereas the allied Mutillid genus, Sphcerophthahna, 

 is strictly diurnal. In all my collecting in New Mexico and Colorado, I 

 never remember catching a Photopsis by day (except, indeed, specimens 

 drowned in a horse trough at the New Mexico Agricultural College, and 

 what I believe to be a $ Photopsis under a box at Santa F^), whereas 

 lliey everywhere come in great abundance to lights at night. Of course, 

 the presumably apterous 9 cannot fly to the lights, and this is doubtless 

 the reason why they are not found. Sphcerophthalma has very different 



