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ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Nov., '06 



Some Arachnida from Washington State. — Among a small num- 

 ber of Arachnida collected by me in the vicinity of Seattle I think it 

 worth recording the following species, as I believe most of them are 

 hitherto known only from more southern or eastern localities : PhUaeus 

 militaris Hentz; Cybaeus reticulatus Sim; Amaurobis pictus Sim; 

 Theridium sexpunctatum Em; Lepthyphoutes arcuatus Keys; Ideobis- 

 iion thcvencti Sim. They have kindly been determined by Mr. N. 

 Banks. — E. Bergroth. 



Corrections Vol. XVII. 



Page 302, line 18— waldonii to waldenii. 



" " " 38— insert ''area" between "punctate" and "at." 



" 303» " 3— culbitus to cubitus. 



" . " " 7, 19, 26, 30, 35 — waldonii to waldenii and Waldon to 

 Walden. 



" " " 12— say to Say. 



11 " " 26 — etoid to third. 



" " " 33 — eyregia to egregia. 



" 304, " 13,37,43 — waldonii to waldenii and Waldon to Walden. 



" " " 18 — transient to trenchant. 



Tenacity of Acanthia Lectularia Linn. — In 1902 I bought a 

 new willow rocking chair from a Cincinnati furniture dealer. It had 

 arms made of plaited willow; whenever I sat in this chair, with shirt 

 sleeves rolled up, my right arm, which rested on the chair arm, 

 would be bitten and swollen. I soon came to the conclusion there 

 was "something doing" in the arm of the chair, so I laid it over a 

 large sheet of paper and poured gasoline over it. Out of the arm 

 of the chair I jarred 150 (actual count) fiendish "bed bugs." This was 

 the same year I bought the chair. Since then, every summer, there 

 have been bugs in that chair. I have poured boiling water over it, and 

 drenched it with gasoline, but enough eggs have always escaped destruc- 

 tion to keep things going. I am ready to present this Hemiptera incu- 

 bator to any Hemipterist who will take it. 



— Charles Dury, Cincinnati, Ohio. 



On the night of September 20th my wife was greatly annoyed by the 

 persistency and ferocity of a mosquito, and was obliged to get up and 

 apply oil of citronella to be able to sleep. In the morning the mosquito 

 was located in the room, but efforts to catch it failed, as it flew when- 

 ever approach, and a net was not at hand. When I returned in the 

 evening my wife said she had succeeded in getting it into a cyanide tube. 

 I did not know the species at sight and a table for determination I con- 

 sulted did not list it. Finally. I found it to be Janthinosoma musica 

 Say. I imagine the second story of a house in the heart of a large 

 city (Philadelphia) where there is nothing but bricks and mortar and 

 paved streets for miles is a rather unusual place for this species. — 

 Henry Skinner. 



