t 898.] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 47 



Notes and News. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL GLEANINGS FROM ALL QUARTERS 

 OF THE GLOBE. 



Photographs for the album of the American Entomological Society 

 have been received from William L. W. Field and Charles C. Adams. 



We have received one dollar for the News from Station E, Brooklyn, 

 N. Y., January 3rd. Will subscriber please send his name and address? 

 —Eds. 



Habits of a Wasp.— A small blackish wasp {Agenia architecta Say), 

 was noticed at Iowa City, Iowa, July 27th, dragging off a spider ( Trache- 

 itis tranquilla Hentz) about one-fourth longer and much heavier than 

 itself. The legs of the spider had been bitten off at the junction of the 

 coxse and trochanters in order, no doubt, to render the body more easy 

 to handle. The wasp dragged it by straddling the corpse and grasping 

 it with her jaws near the tip of the ventral surface of the abdomen, thus 

 allowing only the hard cephalothoracic dorsum to touch the ground and 

 reducing the friction to a minimum. Both specimens are deposited in the 

 National Museum and, through the kindness of Mr. F. W. True, the 

 names were furnished by Messrs. Ashmead and Banks. — H. F. Wickham. 



Reading the editorial note in the October number of the Entomo- 

 logical News on "Late Collecting" I could not help thinking what a 

 foreign sound to me there was in the expression "net and cyanide jar 

 will be put away for future use." Here the cyanide jar is never in disuse. 

 On sunny days, be the month December, January or June, butterflies and 

 dragonflies are to be found, to say nothing of the beetles, of which there 

 is always a daily quota for the cyanide bottle. In connection with this I 

 would mention the capture of a specimen (flying) of Pleocoma behrensii 

 on December 16th, not a weather-beaten specimen at the tag end of life, 

 but a bright one just emerged. I would also record the finding of Lino- 

 dcndron rugosum at an elevation of 3500 feet in dead trunks of Alnus 

 rhombifolia. This is about two hundred miles south of its known south- 

 ern limit I believe. — Ralph Hopping, Kaweah, Tulare Co., California. 



There is a character in this city of pronounced German origin, who is 

 an enthusiastic entomologist. Nearly every evening he may be seen with 

 his net in hand, looking for favorable specimens of the insect world. His 

 favorite places are against screen doors and windows, within the glare of 

 the electric lights, where he secures many specimens. Thursday evening 

 a crowd of bystanders who were watching his operations saw him sud- 

 denly stoop down and grab at something on the floor. He gave a sharp 

 exclamation and jumped back. He put his boot on the object and crushed 

 it, then commenced sucking his thumb very solicitously. Joe Cramer, 

 one of the spectators, said it must have been a scorpion. An exclama- 

 tion of pain passed over the entomologist's face as he exclaimed, "I 

 found dot out." — Phoenix, Ariz. 



