l62 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [April, '07 



Entomological Society of America. — The membership is already 

 over two hundred and fifty, and these come from thirty-six States, from 

 four Provinces of Canada, from the District of Columbia, from Cuba, and 

 from Hawaii. The next meeting will be held about August 19th at Bos- 

 ton during the session of the International Congress of Zoology. The 

 following meeting will be in Chicago during Convocation week in Decem- 

 ber. — J. Chester Bradley, Secretary-Treasurer. 



Correspondents will kindly allow me to state that I am now com- 

 pleting a monograph of American Stonefiies (Perlidae), and have in pros- 

 pect further work upon the world-fauna in this family, and that I am in 

 need of more material from all quarters for study. Perlidae are so fragile 

 and so unattractive to collectors that musenm collections of them are ex- 

 ceedingly scanty. I should be greatly aided if my kind correspondents 

 would send me such material as they have or can get easily in this group- 

 Specimens in any stages, preserved in any way (alcoholic preservation is 

 best for them) — even a very few of them — would be most acceptable to 

 me. I will determine, or give named exchanges if desired, and I will 

 gladly send my publications on the group to all who will aid me with 

 material for study. — James G. Needham, Cornell Univ., Ithaca, N. Y. 



An Enemy of the Rocky Mountain White Pine. — Some time ago 

 a student of mine, Miss Hazel Schmoll, kindly procured for me some 

 cones of the white pine, Pinus flexilis, from Ward, Colorado, 9000 feet. 

 On opening one of these to demonstrate its structure to the class, it was 

 found that practically every seed was hollow, and contained a living Sco- 

 lytid beetle. The destruction of the seeds — so well protected by the 

 structure of the cone from the attacks of squirrels, etc. — must be very 

 great, and may account for the fact that Pinus flexilis is not so abundant 

 as several of the other conifers. Dr. A. D. Hopkins, to whom I natur- 

 ally referred the beetles, says that they belong to an undescribed species 

 of Conophthorus. — T. D. A. Cockerell. 



The following prescription is considered an unfailing specific for a dis- 

 ease among entomologists known as Hypertrophied Ego. It is not 

 known to be contagious or epidemic, but it is certainly endemic. The 

 remedy is as follows : 



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Corn meal . . 20 pounds. 

 Sodium chloride . 1 ounce. 



Aquae fluviat . . 8 quarts. 



M. Burlap ... 3 yards 



S. Heat the water to the temperature of the blood ; stir in the corn 

 meal and salt ; pour the mixture on the burlap and envelope the entire 

 head with the poultice. Allow it to remain on over night. By morning 

 the Ego will be reduced to normal proportions. Repeat if necessary. 



