234 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [May, ’o8 
Notes and News. 
ENTOMOLOGICAL GLEANINGS FROM ALL QUARTERS 
OF THE GLOBE. 
Miss Eprra Patcu, State Entomologist of Maine, has been spend- 
ing a few months at Cornell University. 
Ir 1s announced that Dr. Thos. H. Montgomery, Jr., of the Univer- 
sity of Texas, has been called to the head of the Department of Zoology 
of the University of Pennsylvania. 
Pror. M. V. SLINGERLAND, has just returned from Chicago, where he 
has been investigating the insect enemies of twine string, for the Mc- 
Cormick Reaper & Binder Company. 
Tue first number of the Annals of the Entomological Society of 
America has appeared. It is a credit in every way to the Society and 
the Editorial Board. If future numbers maintain the same standard of 
excellence its future will be assured. 
Durinc the past season two distinguished foreigners, Messrs Walter 
Froggatt, Government Entomologist of New South Wales, and Dr. 
Manuel J. Rivera, Entomologist of Chili, have visited various entomo- 
logical centres in the United States. 
Cuar_es Apzorr Davis, curator of the Roger Williams Park Museum, 
Providence, Rhode Island, died Jan. 28th. He was deeply interested 
in entomology and published a number of papers on the subject, and 
possessed a valuable collection of insects. 
Turips TABACI Linp.—This insect has appeared in enormous numbers 
on onions at Yuma, Arizona, a place where (as I learn from Prof. 
R. H. Forbes) onions have not been grown before. I am indebted to 
Mr. Crane, of Yuma, for specimens.—T. D. A. CoCKERELL. 
Mr. E. P. Van Duzet, has left for a month’s collecting trip to 
Southern Florida. He wishes to look up the ‘subtropical forms of 
Hemiptera and will make as large collections as possible. His brother 
M. C. Van Duzee will go as far as Jacksonville with him and collect 
principally Hymenoptera. 
Wur.e collecting on Puget Sound during the summer of ’07 a num- 
ber of mollusks were collected and cleaned. When unpacking the shells 
on my return I found that a fly had oviposited in a number of the 
shells, pupated and emerged, being held by the paper about the shells. 
The specimen proved to be the blow fly Calliphora sp. 
The shells of Pterophytes foliatus furnished the largest number of 
flies but other shells had also harbored them. The shelter of the shell 
and the food offered by the remains of the body of the mollusk which 
had not been entirely removed had furnished a very satisfactory home 
and diet to the flies. In most cases only a few flies had reached ma- 
turity possibly because of inadequate food.—J. W. Huncarte. 
