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Notes and. News. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL, GLEANINGS FROM ALL QUARTERS 

 OF THE GLOBE. 



Macrobrachius in America (Dipt.) 



This genus was erected by Dr. H. Dziedzicki, in 1889, for the Myce- 

 tophilid, M. kowarzii n. sp. from eastern Europe. In Bulletin No. 200, 

 Maine Agricultural Experiment Station, p. 60, I described, under the 

 name Phronia producta. a fly taken at Erookline, Mass., which should 

 have been placed in Macrobrachius. By some mischance I overlooked 

 the genus, although three years previously I had correctly placed it in 

 the dichotomic table in Genera Insectorum, Fasc. 93, page 57, last line. 

 In the key of the last mentioned paper there are two entries of the 

 genus, the first of which (page 56, seventh line from the bottom) 

 should be stricken out, as an examination shows that the ocelli are 

 placed as in Phronia. — O. A. Johannsen, Cornell University, Ithaca, 

 New York. 



Pacific Slope Association of Economic Entomologists. 



The following program was announced for the fourth annual meet- 

 ing of this Association, at the University of California, Berkeley, 

 Cal., on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, April 10-12, 1913, in affilia- 

 tion with the Pacific Association of Scientific Societies : 



Thursday afternoon, April 10. "Notes on Entomological Litera- 

 ture and Events of 1912," Professor R. W. Doane, Leland Stanford 

 University. "Internal Anatomy and Development of Epidiaspis piri- 

 cola," Mr. LeRoy Childs, Leland Stanford University. "A new method 

 of automatic dehydration," Mr. George A. Coleman, University of 

 California. "A preliminary list of the Coleoptera that have been in- 

 troduced into California," Dr. Edwin C. Van Dyke, University of 

 California. "The Sensory Reactions of housefly larvae with special 

 reference tc light, heat and moisture," Mr. R. J. Jungerman, Univer- 

 sity of California. 



Thursday evening, April 10. Meeting of the Pacific Coast Entomo- 

 logical Society under the Presidency of Dr. Edwin C. Van Dyke. 



Friday, April 11. "Sesian borers of strawberries, blackberries 

 and currants in the Santa Clara Valley," Mr. Verne G. Stevens. 

 Leland Stanford LT'niversity. "Raisin Insects," Mr. L. J. Nickels. Uni- 

 versity of California. "A Resume of Aphid Economics," Professor 

 J. C. Bridwell, L^niversity of California. "Our Quarantine Service," 

 Professor A. J. Cook, State Commissioner of Horticulture. "The 

 relation of sensory reactions to the assembling habits of Hippodamia 

 convergens," Miss Martha S. Beaser, University of California. "Im- 



