Oct., ’08] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 
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Fast red color. The log and roots were honeycombed by 
| Species of ants. I worked May 17th, 19th and 22nd crumbling 
this log; every inch of it was worked over. I found it a 
able mine of coleopterous treasures. I took more than 300 
- ffom it, a sumber of which are new to me. It was swarming 
 ~Psel , Scydmaenidae and Trichopterygidae. Maj. Casey has 
three species of these Pselaphidae in Can. Ent., August, 
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of these beetles were exceedingly minute, 
Csy. and Leptoplectus exilissimus Csy. being 
dir respective families. The little Tenebrionid, Dioedus punctatus 
cc numbers, those freshly hatched being pale, while the ma- 
jet black. This species can generally be found im red 
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| ‘nati, it is only by patient search for the small forms 
 ¢an be found. —Cuaries Dury. 
qualities of the ordinary housefly. Without hesita- 
tion he condemns that familiar insect to death. He points out that 
oe r for executing this sentence have been evolved by 
all times and every country, but flies are apparently as 
a mixture composed of one part formol to nine parts of 
may be put in ordinary plates, and wherever flies 
ae . i Dears to THe Pur —Preich Surgeon Has Preparation That 
—- 2 Ras just published the result of his investigations concerning the 
Doings of Societies. 
oe PHILADELPHtia, June 17th, 1908. 
At the meeting of the Feldman Collecting Social, held at the 
__gesidence of Mr. H. W. Wenzel, fifteen members were present. 
A letter from Professor Philip P. Calvert was read, in which 
“, he stated that he had examined the scale insects exhibited at 
sour fast meeting, and found them to be the San Jose scale; 
: slides were also shown. 
