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of Melanolestes picipes, who has proven himself too much for 

 their sensationalism. 



The following species have been brought to the Academy of 

 Natural Sciences of Philadelphia as the ^'kissing bug " : 

 Diptera. Tabanus sp.; Erax boMardi. 

 Hymenoptera. Camponotus pennsylvanicus (queen) ; Thal- 



assa lunator ; Tremex columba serieeus. 

 Lepidoptera. Seepsis fulvicolUs. 

 Neuroptera. Perla flavescens ; Corydalus cornutus. 

 Coleoptera. Orthosoma brunnea; Fhytonomus punctatus; 

 Monohammus titUlator ; Alaus oculatus ; Harpalus caligino- 

 sus ; H. pennsylvanicus ; H. sp. ; Tenebrio moKtor ; Creop- 

 hilui villosm; JSaphidion sp. Balaninus quercus. 

 Hemiptera. Benacus griseus ; Prionidus cristatus ; Penta 



toma sp. 

 Many of the foregoing were brought in several times by dif- 

 ferent persons. W. J. F. 

 



Increase or Decrease of Dragon-flies ?— [Our quotatiou in 

 the June News, page 188, from Prof. Kellicott and Mr. Hines' 

 '• Odonata, of Ohio," has produced the following :] 



'' Do you think Prof. Kellicott's remarkeabout theincreasein the 

 number of species for the State of Ohio altogether correct ? Such 

 observations are hard to make Butterflies and other insects, as all 

 collectors have observed, 'will have their years' A friend in 

 Beaver county during 25 years observation found Junonia cxxnia 

 only one season when it was verj"" common. Dr Holland, during 

 20 years, never saw Meliicea phaeton in this country, but a few days 

 ago I took about 15 specimens. Last season on July 4 visited an 

 old gravel pit near BluflFton, and there took 21 spp. of Odonata- 

 On July 5 I visited the same pond at the same time 

 of day ; the weather was as nearly like the preceding day 

 as two consecutive mid-summer days can be, and yet I found only 

 about a dozen spp Tramea lacerata and omista were numerous on 

 the fourth, but were not seen on the fifth. 1 have, as a boy, seen the 

 Wabash flowing like a silver ribbon between its blue grass-clothed 

 banks.its waters teeming with fish and its ripples alive with Uuion- 

 idae. Last summer I walked along mud flats by as foul smelling 

 pools as could be imagined— for miles 1 am sure there isn't a live 

 Unio. I saw black bass come to the surface, gasp and float, belly up, 

 down stream. Even old slimy Necturus crawled out on the land to 

 die, and their bodies lay along the banks of the river by dozens. 

 Certainly it is an « jorior?" argument that theOdonataare perishing 

 when surrounded by sucn condition? E. B. Williamson. 



