1892.] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 263 



vanced. Mr. Beckwith has made no experiments, but recommends 

 kerosene emulsion and hellebore, expressly discountenancing the use of 

 the arsenites on the score of danger to the consumer. This makes pos- 

 sible an interesting comparison with Bulletin 18 of the Iowa Station noted 

 in our last number, in which a free use of the arsenites even upon well 

 grown fruit is advocated. Personally, I fail to see any danger in their 

 application while in bud or in blossom, and it is at this time that the ap- 

 plications against the "weevil" must be made. I very much doubt the 

 efficiency of the hellebore mixture. One ounce to three gallons of water 

 may do for currant worms, or the saw-fly larvae generally, but it will not 

 be found effective for much besides. The snout beetles are 'usually diffi- 

 cult to kill at best, and where the feeding is done by puncturing the bud 

 and eating the undeveloped petals anything short of the arsenites is prac- 

 tically useless, and I would not expect too much of even these. The 

 kerosene suggestion is, in my opinion, the one most likely to be useful. 



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The newspaper clipping referring to donation of the Angus collection 

 to American Museum of Natural History of New York, which appeared 

 on page 97, vol. iii, of Ent. News, was not written by me, as I furnished 

 only the last sentence concerning Catocalae. — Dr. R. E. Kunze. 



Lieut. R. E. PE.\Ry, the Arctic explorer, saw bumble-bees at north 

 latitude 81° 37^ in Greenland, and stated that blue-bottle flies were as 

 common that far north as they are in Philadelphia around a butcher-shop. 

 The latitude mentioned is within about 580 miles of the North Pole. 



Note on Tachytes. — In connection with the recent monograph of the 

 North American species of Tachytes by Mr. Fox, in Transactions Ento- 

 mological Society xix, I want to say that I have confirmed Mr. Cresson's 

 suspicion that T. elongatus Cr. might be the male of T. distinctus Sm. 

 by taking them in copula. In Illinois I have also taken T. validus (com- 

 mon), T. attnilenfus, T. sericatits and T. obsctirtis. — Chas. Robertson, 

 Carlinville, 111. 



