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spoken of, but which really results the same unless the wasp larva so soon 

 begins to feed as to cause death in that way. In the case of Bembex it 

 is known that the death of its prey occurs not from stinging, but from 

 piercing the head of the dipteron with its mandibles, hence no "suspended 

 animation," and the storing of the'fly in the wasp cell answers all neces- 

 sary care in preservation, although acid may also be injected by the wasp. 

 — \Vm. H.\mpton Patton, Hartford, Conn. 



Mr. Levi W. Mengel, of Reading, Pa., who was entomologist to the 

 first Peary expedition to Greenland, is a candidate for the position of the 

 United States Consul to Trinidad, W. I. 



Identification of Insects (Imagos) for Subscribers. 



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 to be limited to twenty-five for each sending; 2d, The sender to pay all expenses of trans- 

 portation and the insects to become the property of the American Entomological Society ; 

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 nounced accordingly. Exotic species named only by special arrangement with the Editor, 

 who should be consulted before specimens are sent. Send a 2 cent stamp with all insects 

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Entomological Literattare. 



Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sci- 

 ences, viii, 2, New Haven, 1893. — New England spiders of the family 

 Attidse, J. H. Emerton, 6 pis. New England spiders of the family Tho- 

 misidae, id., 5 pis. 



Canadian Entomologist, London, Ont., April, 1893. — Some new 

 Locustidse from Indiana, W. S. Blatchley. On some butterfly larvae not 

 hitherto described, H. G. Dyar. New North American Microlepidoptera, 

 Prof. C. H. Fernald. Hints on collecting Coleoptera during the Winter, 

 A. Ford. The butterflies of Grand Rapids, Mich , R. H. Wolcott. Try- 

 phon flavifrons n. s., Rev. T. W. Fyles. The song of Thyreonotus, W. 

 T. Davis. Notes on Leucania pseudargyria Guen., Rev. T. W. Fyles. 

 Two new Cynipids from Washington State, C. P. Gillette. Which side 

 of the tree does Phlosotribus /iminaris attack?. F. M. Webster. Trypeta. 

 Clisiocampa and Amnialo, T. D. A. Cockerell. 



Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Zoologie (7), xiv, 4-5. Paris, 

 March 10, 1893. — Histological studies on the nervous centres and the 

 sense-organs of articulated animals, H. Viallanes. 



The Victorian Naturalist. Melbourne, March, 1893. — Notes on 

 some Victorian Coccidic or scale insects,* II, C. French. 



* Contains new species other than North American. 



