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on the Li History of Nonagria oblonga (Grote).” [Pub- 
ed in the present number of Ent. News]e He ex- 
ee on eee as well 
Seer nes of the cane, Prof. G. N. C. Henschen gave 
resting talk on “The Psychic Powers of Ants,” 
ustrating his remarks with citations from Lubbock and Forel. 
| rere was a fair attendance. Chairman A. F. Satterthwait 
W. R. Watton, Secretary. 
Stsrmictogical Division of the Harrisburg Natural His- 
ME diet ta the rooms Of the Division of Zoology at the 
Us rite on the evening of June 11, 1908, at 8 o'clock, Mr. A 
Ge 3 eee residing. Mr. H. L. Viereck give a ‘most 
os x and instructive talk on the “The House fly and the 
; i ibility of its Extermination.” He told of its habits, its 
rt in the spread of disease as known from experiments and 
n its work at the Chickamauga concentration camp where 
came a victim of the fever. In view of the enormous 
y losses alone from the ravages of typhoid, he thinks that 
| Ee ptiast the toese fy wostd be « payiog iavestnient 
a a the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. The proper treating 
and enclosing of all manure accumulations in cities could easily 
_ be accomplished and would go a long way toward the abate- 
S Tdat Of the fly nuisance in town. Mr. W. R. Walton exhibit- 
___ ed several specimens of the peculiar Ortalid fly Myrmecomyia 
i _ myrmecoides (Loew). He said that in view of the fact that 
___ Aldrich gives no note of its distribution except a reference to 
as its type locality (D. C. ) and that it does not appear in Smith’s 
_ list of N. J. Insects it might be well to record its capture. The 
\, ‘Harrisburg, three of them on blackberry blossoms, one on the 
__ trunk of a locust tree and one on wild rose and all in close prox- 
_ imity to locust trees. Mr. P. H. Hertzog gave an account of 
his troubles with the wire-worms which are very troublesome 
_ ~ about Harrisburg this year. 
oo W. R. Watton, Secretary. 
