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The bug in question was Lethocerus (Belostoma) americanus 

 Leidy, and measured about two and one-fourth inches in length. 

 The fish was a young banded pickerel, Lucius americanus Gmelin, 

 nearly three and five-eighths inches long. It was kindly identified 

 for me by Professor Bashford Dean. I send Mr. Davison's letter, 

 thinking that the observation may be of some interest to readers of the 

 News, as it records a specific instance of a fish being captured by one 

 of these bugs. — W. E. Britton, New Haven, Conn. 



The collection .and libr.\ry of the well-known Dipterologist Victor 

 V. Roeder, who died in Hoyen, Anhalt, Germany, Dec. 26 191 0, have 

 been presented to the Zoological Museum of the University of Halle. 



The C.A.MPAIGN Ag.\inst House Flies. — San Antonio, Te.x., July 

 4. — One and a quarter million dead flies in one heap, contributing a 

 pile three feet high and five feet wide, represents the slaughter wrought 

 by small boys as the result of a fly-killing contest which closed here 

 today. Robert Basse carried oflf first prize of $10 with an official 

 record of 484,320 dead flies. — Newspaper. 



Worcester, Mass., July 13. — More than 10 barrels of flies were 

 gathered by 232 contestants in an anti-fly crusade, which began on 

 June 22 and ended tonight. The winner, who gets a prize of $100, 

 turned in 95 quaijs, or a total of 1,219,000 flies captured in traps of 

 his own construction, and claims the world's championship. He is 

 Earl C. Bousquet, 12 years old. — Newspaper. 



Changes of Position and of Address. — Dr. Alex. D. MacGillivray 

 has become Assistant Professor of Systematic Entomology at the Uni- 

 versity of Illinois, and his address is now 604 East John Street, Cham- 

 paign, Illinois. Members of the Entomological Society of America, 

 of which Dr. MacGillivray is Secretary-Treasurer, are requested to 

 take notice of his removal. 



Dr. J. Chester Bradley has accepted the position of Assistant Profes- 

 sor of Systematic Entomology in Cornell University, as the successor 

 of Dr. MacGillivray; his address is The Entomological Laboratory-, 

 Cornell University, Ithaca. New York. 



Mr. A. A. Girault, recently at Urbana, Illinois, has been appointed 

 Entomologist to the Department of Agriculture of Queensland, and 

 should be addressed at Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. 



The Schilsky Collection of Coleoptera. — The collection of palae- 

 artic Coleoptera formed by Herr J. Schilsky, the present President 

 of the Deutsche Entomologische Gesellschaft, has come into the posses- 

 sion of the Royal Zoological Museum in Berlin. It consists of 107,814 

 specimens of 8181 palaeartic species. It includes types of about 500 

 species described by its possessor, especially in the families Dasytidae, 



