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Epactnus concinnus, pellucidus, fumosus Coquillet, Can. Ent. xxiv, p. 

 9. California. 



Tachinidee: Siphoplagia n. gen., Townsend, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xviii, 

 p. 349; S. aiiomala, p. 350, N. Mex. Goniochceta n. gen., p. 351; G. pla- 

 gioides, p. 352, N. Me^f Tachina spinosula, p. 353, 111. Pachyophthal- 

 mus aurifrotts, p. 354, 111. MUtop;ranima Jlavicornis, p. 355, 111. M. 

 argentifrons, p. 357, 111. M. cinerascens, p. 358, III. Masicera nigrita, 

 p. 358, 111. M. sordicolor p. 359, 111. Hypertrophocera n. gen., p. 360; 

 H. parvipes, p. 361, N. Mex. Aphria ocypierata, p. 361, S. Dak., Minn.? 

 Exorista ciliaia, p. 363, 111. Laccoprosopa n. gen., p. 365; L. sarcopha- 

 gina, p. 366, III. Frontina acroglossoides, p. 367, 111. Siphona illinoerisis, 

 p. 368, 111. Phasioclista n. gen., p. 369; P. metallica, p. 370, 111., S. Fla. 

 Ennyomma n. gen., p. 371; E. cHstoides, p. 371, 111. Clytiaflava, p. 372, 

 111. Atrophopoda n. gen., p. 373; A. singularis, p. 374, 111. Epigryniia 

 n. gen., p. 375; E. polita, p. 376, Va. Drepanoglossa n. gen., p. 377; D. 

 lucens, p. 378, N. Mex. Ceratomyiella n. gen., p. 379; C. conica, p. 380, 

 111. Leucostoma atra, p. 380, 111. Vanderwulpia n. gen., p. 381; V. 

 atrophopodoides, p. 381, N. Mex. 



COLEOPTERA. 

 Phanceus /%)^r/ Nevinson, Ent. Mo. Mag. (2), iii,, p. 33. Jalapa, Mex. 

 Agrilus. — Synoptic table of species and twenty-one new species de- 

 scribed, Horn, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xviii, 4. 



Bitten by a Tarantula. — Bridgeport, July 20th. As Louis Pastine, 

 a fruit dealer of Main Street, was moving a bunch of banannas at his store, 

 Saturday, a huge tarantula jumped out and stung him on the thumb of 

 the left hand. Pastine ran to the office of Dr. C. W. Fitch, who has lived 

 in Central America, and is an expert on the tarantula. Before he reached 

 the doctor's office the thumb had swollen to twice its natural size. Mr. 

 Pastine says that immediately after the sting the most excruciating pains 

 shot through his arm and both sides. In a moment the pains had pene- 

 trated even to his liver, which was seriously affected. Dr. Fitch cauter- 

 ized the wound, and expects that Mr. Pastine will recover. The Doctor 

 says that the tarantula's bite is not very dangerous, except when it is in 

 an excited condition, and that the one which bit Mr. Pastine was in a 

 rather torpid state. During his fifteen years in Central America he was 

 bitten twenty times by them. He knew how to treat the sting, and at- 

 tended to it immediately, which is essential. " If," said the Doctor, "you 

 can imagine yourself suffering a pain one hundred times as intense as a 

 wasp sting, you can realize what it is to be bitten by a tarantula. To test 

 the ferocity of the spider, I once cut a round hole in the centre of a news- 

 paper and placed the tarantula in the hole. Then I set fire to the paper, 

 and the insect finding itself hemmed in on all sides, threw its tail over, 

 and stinging itself on the back died instantly," 



