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of the severe type of the disease had occurred up to that year 

 . . . [which] means a loss of about 140 Hves in this small 

 valley. At the present time, with an increase in the popula- 

 tion of the valley, it is estimated that about 20 cases of the 

 disease occur annually. This means a loss of about 15 lives 

 each year and this loss is certain to increase as the population 

 of the valley becomes larger.''^ 



It may be that the health-offering Bitter Root Valley is not 

 in Montana and we have no wish to hinder the agricultural 

 development of any valley whatsoever. We do suggest, how- 

 ever, that some knowledge of entomology and of the relations 

 of ticks and insects to disease is of practical and utilitarian 

 value and should be employed by the "investigator" of profer- 

 red investments. 



Notes and. News. 



BNTOMOLOQICAL GLEANINGS FROM ALL QUARTERS 

 OP THE GLOBE. 



Changes of Address. 

 The address of Mr. C. A. Frost is now 26 Pond St., South Framing- 

 ham, Mass., instead of 40 Grant St. 



The address of Prof. J. M. Aldrich is now Experiment Station Build- 

 ing, Lafayette, Indiana, instead of Moscow, Idaho. 



The address of Mr. Francis X. WilHams is now Bussey Institution, 

 Forest Hills Station, Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, instead of Museum 

 Building, Lawrence, Kansas. 



Lepidopterous Eggs From the Stomach of a Wren. 



August 18, 1912, I found near Nelson, Nortli Queensland, a male 

 of the little wren Cisticola cxilis lying dead upon the ground; its 

 stomach contained, besides adult and larval insects of several orders, 

 about three dozen green lepidopterous eggs, probably those of a moth. 

 They appeared to be uninjured and I carefully kept them; on August 

 20 an examination of them was made and some were marked with 

 small pink dots which seemed to indicate development. However, by 

 more careful examination it appeared that these dots were really the 

 embryos of parasites of the genus Tricho</rainnta (only an antenna 

 was clearly made out which resembled that organ in the genus named). 

 Development did not advance farther.— A. A. Girault, Nelson, North 

 Queensland. 



Jlbid., p. 14. 



