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Mrs. A. T. Slosson will soon go to Gale Cottage, Franconia, N. H. 



Transactions of American Entomological Society, volume 23, num- 

 ber 2, will contain papers by Leng and Hamilton, on the Lamiinse of 

 North America; and Ashmead, on Parasitic Hymenoptera. 



Prof. T. D. A. Cockerell proposes to found a health resort for scientific 

 persons, teachers and kindred spirits, at Las Cruces, New Mex. Loafers, 

 politicians, or other self-interested or ignorant persons need not apply. 

 The scheme is a good one, and should prove successful. 



The collection of the American Entomological Society has recently 

 been enriched by the presentation, by Mr. Cockerell, of the types of 

 nearly all of his species of Perdita, described in the current number of 

 the " Proceedings" of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 



It is well known that a full-grown larva of Thyreus abbotti is a formi- 

 dable appearing creature to the uninitiated, which is in no wise lessened 

 by its habit of turning its body quickly from side to side and uttering a 

 squeaky noise when alarmed. A lady of my acquaintance whose porch 

 IS overhung with an Atnpelopsis quinquefolia or woodbine, came to me 

 one day and said "that there were the horridest great worms on her 

 woodbine; they were as long as that" — measuring off a good eight inches 

 on her forefinger and hand — "and as big round as any thumb with one 

 big eye in the middle of their head. There was one got into the sitting- 

 room this morning and I had to get Charles to come with the tongs and 

 carry it out. Whenever I went near it it would thrust its head round and 

 run out its tongue and hiss." Here I exploded. "Oh, you can laugh if 

 you want to, but you wouldn't have laughed if you had been there. I 

 aint so afraid of them as my sister is though. There was one got into 

 her parlor one day when she was alone; she is an old maid, and she had 

 to wait until the neighbors got home before she could get it out." 



The occasion of her visit to me was to find out what was eating up her 

 peas. On examination I found great numbers of half-grown larva of 



