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field we felt that we must make some effort to save all we could. We 

 therefore, two weeks ago, put seven men in that field and have kept them 

 there ever since. I asked the man who had charge of them one day last 

 week how many he thought they would kill in a day. He said he did 

 not know, but it would run up in the thousands. I then asked him to 

 keep an account the next day of how many he killed. He reported at 

 night 1200, and said he was sure that the seven men would average 1000 

 apiece. On this basis we have calculated that in that field alone by this 

 time we have killed 70,000 locusts, and have had some men in a smaller 

 field, so we feel we are not exaggerating when we say that we have killed 

 100,000 so far in the last two weeks. There are fewer of them the last 

 day or two, and we hope their season of damage is about over. 



We had the men count every twentieth row in the field mentioned above 

 of the damaged trees, and on striking an average on the whole lot from the 

 seven rows counted we make our loss over 12,000 in that field alone. 

 — Abner Hoopes, West Chester, Pa., June 18, 1902. 



The temporary home of the California Academy of Sciences is at 181 2 

 Gough Street, San Francisco. The second series of informal talks upon 

 the Academy's recent Galapagos expedition was given by Mr. Francis X. 

 Williams, entomologist to the expedition. 



Mk. J. A. G. Rehn has recently completed an important paper on Ari- 

 zona Orthoptera which has been presented to the Academy of Natural 

 Sciences of Philadelphia for publication. The material was collected by 

 Dr. Henry Skinner, Dr. F. A. Snow, Mr. Charles Schaeffer, and Mr. C. 

 R. Biederman. 



Explained. — A friend from the North had gone to visit the colonel, 

 who lived in the swampy Mississippi River bottoms of Louisiana. There 

 was no mosquito netting over the bed, and in the morning when the negro 

 came with the water and towels the tortured visitor asked : 



"Sam, why is it that you have no mosquito netting over the beds? 

 Doesn't the colonel have any in his room ?" 



" No, suh," replied Sam. 



'* I don't see how he stands it," exclaimed the visitor. 



" Well, suh," drawled Sam, " I reckon it's jes dis way : In de fo' part 

 uv the night, suh, de colonel's mos' gen'rally so 'toxicated dat he don't 

 pay no 'tention to de skeeters, an' in de las' part uv de night, suh, de 

 skeeters is mos' gen'rally so 'toxicated dat dey dou't pay no 'tention to 

 de colonel." — Newspaper. 



Tetyra bipunctata H. S.— Mr. E. Daecke's note before the Ameri- 

 can Entomological Society (Entomological News, January, 1907, vol. 

 xviii, No. 1, p. 32) on this rare hemipteron is of interest, as he mentions a 

 new locality. It is not, however, the first record of the family, nor of the 

 species. It was recorded as occurring in Lakehurst, N. J., some distance 

 further north, in the Journal of the New York Entomological Society for 



