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Notes and News. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL GLEANINGS FROM ALL QUARTERS 

 OF THE GLOBE. 



A Correction.— In a short article published in the Entomological 

 News for February, 1905, I stated that Piodes coriacea Lee. had been 

 found in the Province of Quebec. I regret to say that this statement is 

 not correct ; I should have said Pachyta rugipennis Newm. I was led 

 astray by Abbe" Provancher in his "Additions aux Coleopteres de la 

 Province de Quebec," 1878, page 14, where he describes P. rugipennis 

 under the name of Piodes coriacea. — G. Chagnon. 



Eubaphe ostenta Hy. Edw. was described from one male taken at 

 Prescott, Arizona. This species was so abundant at light in Carr Canyon, 

 Huachuca Mts., Cochise Co., Ariz., during August as to be a nuisance. 

 It fluttered around the lamp in such numbers as to interfere with the col- 

 lecting of other species, and it was necessary from time to time to clear 

 the table of the dead and fallen. The bright crimson and black secon- 

 daries make it a conspicuous object. I generally spoke of it as the red- 

 light nuisance to my host, Mr. Biederman. — Henry Skinner. 



Mr Rene Oberthur has been collecting the overwintering nest of 

 Euproctis chrysorrhoea to send to Boston in order that parasites may 

 possibly be reared from them to assist the New England people in their 

 right against the brown-tail moth. Mr. Oberthur's collectors have 

 aroused much interest in some of the country regions in France. The 

 newspaper in a small town comments upon the arrival at the hotel of a 

 stranger of fine appearance and decorated, who announced that he was 

 willing to buy the nests of caterpillars. Soon large sacks of caterpillar 

 nests were brought in by the farming people, were packed in large boxes 

 and sent to Rennes. The object of this purchase was not announced, 

 but the people did some guessing. One man suggested that they were 

 intended to make silk to replace that imported from China, since the 

 Japanese, now having control of China, did not wish to sell any more 

 silk to France ; another person suggested that the object was to rear the 

 caterpillars in order to extract the diamonds from the heads of some of 

 them since it is a well-known fact that occasionally a caterpillar is found 

 with a diamond in its head ; a third countryman suggested that the object 

 was to remove the nests from the caterpillars and use them in filtering 

 the city water of Rennes. The editor of the newspaper, with an eye to 

 business, gives these three theories and promises his readers that if they 

 will look in the next Sunday's edition he will give them the true use of 

 these nests. — L. O. Howard. 



Doings of Societies. 



A meeting of the American Entomological Society was' held 

 June 22d, 1905, Dr. P. P. Calvert, President, in the chair. Nine 

 persons were present. 



Mr. Daecke reported taking fifteen specimens of Chrysops 

 fallax at Winona, N. J., on June 22d. He spoke of the value 



