Dec, '05] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 333 



Notes and Ne\?vs. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL GLEANINGS FROM ALL QUARTERS 

 OF THE GLOBE. 



At the annual meeting of the Entomological Society of Ontario held in 

 October last, Professor T. D. A. Cockerell, of the University of Colorado, 

 was unanimously elected an honorary member. 



Mexican Flies in the United States. — During the past season I 

 have taken two species of flies around Washington hitherto known only 

 from Mexico. One is a yellowish-red ant-like Ortalid — Cyrtcnneiopa 

 {Odontomera) ferruginea Macq. It rests on the leaves of low shrubbery 

 in June, July and August. The other fly— Cordyligaster trmmscu/a Van 

 der Wulp — is a Dexid with a clavale body, and the anterior part of wings 

 fuscous. It was taken only twice, in July, and was at rest on the leaf of a 

 small tree. I have also taken it at Shreveport, La. — Nathan Banks. 



The Association of Economic Entomologists will hold its annual meet- 

 ing in New Orleans in conjunction with the American Association for the 

 Advancement of Science, convening for the first session on Monday fore- 

 noon, January ist. Place and exact time will be announced in the pre- 

 liminary program. It is expected that the sessions will continue for three 

 days. 



A preliminary program will be issued immediately after December loth, 

 containing the titles of all papers received up to that time. The secretary 

 hopes that all members intending to present papers will send in their titles 

 by December loth. — H. E. Summers, Iowa State College, Ames, la. 



Dr. Dvar fails entirely to reach the point of my inquiry in the Novem- 

 ber number of Ent, News. I wish very much to learn in what parts of 

 the country stemmed cocoons of Telea Polyphemus are the rule ; in what 

 parts they are equally common with the stemless form ; in what parts 

 they are not reported. 



I think, but I have no copy of the Ent. News at hand, that I made no 

 statement that the "fact " oi polyphemus cocoons with stems was " new," 

 but that I had never found one, had never seen one until a certain time. 



Dr. Dyar should remember that comparatively few of the hundreds 

 who study insects have large entomological libraries at their command, 

 in daily reach as it were, and cannot afford to subscribe to all the periodi- 

 cals dealing with the subject. Many of us have duties which prevent our 

 spending hours in searching for what we want in a library which may be 

 several miles away. 



I think that many of us had supposed that a "popular " magazine like 

 the Ent. News was intended to be of service in just such ways, as well 

 as to give us whatever absolutely '* new " and original papers were offered 

 to it. If this is not the case it will be very easy for the Editors to say so. 

 — Caroline Gray Soule. 



