INTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 235 
‘TA from the Huachwa Mts., Arizona.—The two species of Argia 
d in the list on page 45 of the News for Jan., 1908, are A. fonto 
N., and A. vivida, var. plana, Calv —P. P. CALVERT. 
It A DKOLL Stony oF A GERMAN SCHOOLMASTER AND A U. S. A. 
on.—By Dr. Wattuer Horn (Berlin).—There was once a thin 
= : in Germany, called **W. H."" He was little and thin, 
her SEs chalidien a large, bi mejor ia the U.S. A. named “Th 
F C.. an important fellow—a real Major. 
— 1908, to fight against the school- 
© schoolmaster got awfully frightened. Poor little schoolmaster, 
hat could he do? 
e schoolmaster tried to write an epistle against the furious Major, 
as he began to write “Th. L. C.," he wrote ‘Mo. T. Sch.""— 
of intellectual perception " was really “very feebly devel- 
Finally he got an ideat he went out to catch two different grass- 
Ss, put each one in a separate glass, labeled them carefully “ Th. 
LC." and ** Mo. T. Sch.,"’ thinking that will help his memory to facilitate 
_ the distinction. Really the epistle advanced ; but, alas, the next morning 
_ came, “Th. L. C." had moulted and looked now like ** Mo. T. Sch.” 
oor little schoolmaster, how were you taken in again ! 
was still a little schoolboy named “H.R. ;" clever in every- 
g, only he had never succeeded in differentiating a positive from a 
He saw his master’s sorrow. 
Bs x , what's the matter?" 
Seer soi ts bad ery. 
I see the two grasshoppers, master?" 
aa , my little boy, here they are." 
es San une, bees ty or.” master?" 
eens 
ore “ And the claws "’? 
“ One like the other!" 
ae i ilaes do the bugs spring, master?” 
"od “Absolutely the same behavior !"’ 
$ Well,” said the clever boy, ‘‘the bugs are really the same, only 
a “ Casey" should be perhaps the comparative of ‘* Motschoulshy.”’ 
be OF THE PARASITISM OF TACHINA FLIES ON THE LARVAE OF 
Phlegethontius sexta Jouanssex.—At Paris, Texas, on September 6th, 
1904, I found a nearly fullgrown larva of this species hanging head 
_ down from a tomato plant in a garden, the anal prolegs holding it. 
"The body was limp, shrunken and decomposed, and literally full of the 
grubs of some tachina fly. Afterwards the body hardened and became 
brittle, finally cracking along one side, through which the maggots 
‘worked their way out. Eleven of them pupated on the surface of the 
