214 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [May, '07 



Notes and. News. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL GLEANINGS FROM ALL QUARTERS 

 OP THE GLOBE. 



Will name Micro-Lepidoptera — all families except Phycitinae.— W. 

 D. Kearfott, Montclair, N. J. 



A. L. Melander, Agric. Exper. Station, Pullman, Washington, will 

 name Empididae and fossil Diptera. 



Henry Engel has removed from Pittsburgh, Pa., to New Brighton, 

 Pa. Correspondents are requested to kindly address letters and parcels 

 as follows : Merrick Museum, 5th Ave. and nth St., New Brighton, Pa. 



Farmington — Ah, there's that old poem about husking bees. I 

 always did like that. 



Dumley —Husking bees ? What do you mean ? 



Farmington — Why, were you never in the country during the season 

 of husking bees? 



Dumley — No. How in the world do you husk a bee? 



The Lake Laboratory of the Ohio State University, located on 

 Cedar Point near Sandusky, is designed to provide a meeting ground for 

 teachers and students of biology, to afford opportunity for the investiga- 

 tion of the biology of the lake region, and for giving certain courses of 

 instruction in biological subjects. 



Entomology — field and laboratory course, including instruction in col- 

 lecting, mounting and identifying insects in connection with studies in 

 life history and anatomy. Excellent opportunities for life-history studies 

 are offered both on aquatic and terrestrial forms. 



The course of instruction will open June 24th and close August 2nd, 

 the laboratory being open longer to students desiring to continue work. 



Samia rubra and gloveri. — The question of the food plant having 

 the property of changing the color values of various species has been 

 long admitted, and in dealing with S. rubra, I was interested in the 

 fact that larvae fed on birch at Ottawa from eggs furnished by me 

 from wild rubra emerged as imago of a dark gray, having little trace 

 of the reddish tint which is so noticeable with rubra; this led me to 

 the further experiment of trying to feed rubra on tamarack which is 

 the recognized food of gloveri. I parted a batch of eggs, placing some 

 on its native food plant Cocanothus and the balance on tamarack 

 (Sytix occidentalis) ; the growth of those on the tamarack was very 

 slow, they only passed the first stage when those of the Cocanothus 

 were passing the third, and continued to develop in the same ratio. 

 During the last stage they were offered Douglas fir and entirely for- 

 sook the tamarack for that food, on which they seemed to thrive better 



