l894-] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 315 



Tufts College, Massachusetts, Oct. 29, 1894. — My attention was called 

 to-day to Mr. Banks' paper "On a Classification of the Arthropoda" in 

 your magazine for September. As my paper, issued last March, is made 

 the text for Mr. Banks' remarks I write to ask the publication of a dis- 

 claimer for certain views which the careless reader might suppose me to 

 hold. I never supposed that the second appendage of the Hexapods 

 discovered by Wheeler is "probably labrum" of these forms. Nor do 

 I say that "two pairs of cephalic appendages have disappeared in both 

 Arachnids and Limulus." Again, I did not "assert" that in the Chilo- 

 pods there is " stigmata(i'2V) to each segment." Lastly, I did not assign 

 a common stem to the Eurypterida and Trilobites. In short, I would ask 

 the reader to consider Mr. Banks' paper as his own production, and not 

 as in any way a representation of my views. — J. S. Kingslev. 



Novel Remedy for Neuralgia and Toothache. — Le Roy, N. Y., 

 November 2d. This village has a resident who recently resorted to heroic 

 means to effect a cure for toothache and neuralgia. He had long been a 

 victim of these pain-producing complaints, and had tried various remedies 

 without effecting a cure. About two weeks ago he was attacked simul- 

 taneously with both of his old enemies. Unable to bear the affliction, he 

 went into his yard, picked up a small stick, and approaching a bee-hive, 

 stirred up the little honey-makers. As they came angrily forth in search 

 of their tormentor, the man placed his cheek against the hole in the hive 

 where they had their exit. He was stung in half a dozen places. Al- 

 though the pain was almost unendurable he changed his position and 

 allowed them to sting him on the other side of the face. He has not 

 suffered from his old affliction since, and he believes his recovery is due 

 to the treatment to which he subjcc*^ed himself. — Newspaper. 



According to statements of collectors, the variety jamaicensis of 

 Smerinthus geminatus, is not often obtained. During June and July of 

 present year, I collected, from willow, twenty-eight larvae of geminatus, 

 of which I obtained twenty-two normal pupae. One of the imagines gave 

 a perfect $ var. jamaicensis, out of twenty which emerged. Of these I 

 obtained two matings and over 280 ova. Only 120 hatched out between 

 3d and 5th of August. Of these brought 60 to pupation, eighty per cent, 

 of which emerged in latter half of September. Lost most of the other 

 larvae between time of hatching and first moult, in fact many did not go 

 on food-plant at all. A few mature larvae escaped while feeding or clean- 

 ing out breeding-cage, having too many others to rear, so that time was 

 precious. About October 2d I picked up on floor of my window what 

 was supposed to be a dead Noctuid, some of which are often attracted 

 by light. Did not wear my eye-glass, and, after seizing the object, found 

 it moving between my fingers. When closely inspected said it was a 

 flown Smerinthus geminatus with apices of wings worn off". At first 

 thought wanted to throw it away, then reconsidered and put it in cyanide 

 bottle for closer inspection; soon after discovered I had a very fair speci- 



