224 entomological news. [November, 



Notes and. Nevsrs. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL GLEANINGS FROM ALL QUARTERS 

 OF THE GLOBE. 



Caterva catenaria. — Our town swarms with them — so many that it shut 

 off the electric lights by filling up the globes. — M. C. Barner, D. D. S., 

 Jersey Shore, Pa. 



They were all directed against the secretary of agriculture. The first 

 advised him to experiment in his entomological division with crossing 

 the lightning bug with the bee, in order that the busy insect could see to 

 work at night. The second looked to the crossing of the centipede with 

 the hog in order that the usual Populistic idea of finance might receive 

 demonstration in ioo hams to a hog. The third advised the budding of 

 the strawberry plant with the milkweed so that strawberries and cream 

 could be had in natural conjunction. — Ne7vspaper. 



A tame butterfly. — I had been collecting on a very warm day in 

 July, in the Orange Mountains, and had been perspiring freely, although 

 I was in my shirt sleeves. Walking slowly through the open woods, I 

 noticed a Grapta comma hovering quite near, which, at length, alighted 

 on my shoulder ; out of curiosity I refrained from capturing it, but gently 

 shook it off. Whereupon it flew a short distance, circled about me and 

 alighted on the same shoulder. I was quite interested now as it was be- 

 coming bolder, and it required a rapid movement of the arm to cause it to 

 fly, only to return to the same arm. I made another move but more 

 violent than at first to make it fly ; but after flying a short distance it came 

 back for the last time and landed on my chest, where I watched it for 

 some time, and noticed that it would unroll its tongue as though it were 

 trying to sip. Was it attracted by the smell of perspiration. — A. J. 

 Weidt, Newark, N. J. 



Insects mentioned in the Bible. — By careful study I find the 

 beetles mentioned but once in the Bible and that is where the Lord spoke 

 to Moses and Aaron "these ye may eat;" the gnat also but once as 

 Mathew tells us in 23d ; the ant is found twice in the Proverbs of Solo- 

 mon, and the flea twice in the 1st Book of Samuel; the spider and 

 paltnerworm three times ; the industrious bee four times ; lice five times; 

 fly and flies six times, also the cankerworm six times, being followed 

 by the scorpion seven times ; then comes the moth and caterpillar as 

 often as nine times ; while the grasshopper appears but ten times ; but 

 the worm and worms is mentioned nineteen times ; while the locust 

 beats them all with twenty-four. The mite is mentioned three times, but 

 as money ; the worm is mentioned three times as an evil conscience, and 

 the scorpion four times as a lash. — Eugene R. Fischer. 



