March, '05] entomological news. 121 



Notes and. News. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL GLEANINGS FROM ALL QUARTERS 

 OP THE GLOBE. 



Change of Address. — After this date correspondents will kindly 

 address all mail matter, packages, etc., to my residence, Montclair, N.J. 

 -W. D. KearfOTT. 



Prof. O. W. Barrett has for the present left Mayaguez, Porto Rico, 

 and is at Clarendon, Vermont. 



A fly and a flea in a flue 

 Were imprisoned. Now what could they do? 

 Said the fly : " Let us flee ! " 

 " Let us fly," said the flea — 

 So they flew, through a flaw in the flue. 



—Puck. 



Desmia funeralis Hiibner, and variety snbdivisalis Grote. — With 

 reference to above species and variety, I have examined a large number 

 of specimens in all the collections to which I have had access, and I find 

 that so far as I have examined all the funeralis specimens are males, and 

 all the subdivisalis specimens are females ; if this is correct, which I have 

 no reason to doubt, then subdivisalis will have to drop out as a variety 

 and simply become a synonym. Shall be pleased to be corrected in this 

 if I am in error. — Frank Haimbach. 



Doings of Societies. 



Readers of Entomological News will probably be inter- 

 ested to know that small as is the Territory of Hawaii, it main- 

 tains three staffs of official entomologists. The oldest of these, 

 in reference to 5'ears of existence, is the Entomological Divis- 

 ion of the Board of Commissioners of Agriculture and Forestry, 

 dating from the fall of 1893, when Mr. Albert Koebele, of 

 Vedalia cardinalis fame, was engaged to carry on this work. 

 Besides Mr. Koebele, the work of this office is now attended to 

 by Messrs. Alexander Craw, Jacob Kotinsky and C. J. Austin. 

 Next in order comes the U. S. Experiment Station of Hawaii 

 with Mr. D. L. Van Dine as its official entomologist ; and last 

 in order of organization, but first in the number of entomolog- 

 ists it employs, is the Entomological Department of the 

 Hawaiian Sugar Planters Experiment Station. Besides the 



