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States Bureau of Standards, writes in Mr. Johnson’s pamphlet: 
“In my opinion the strongest reason for the adoption of the 
Centigrade scale is the one given above, viz., the international 
uniformity.” 
The American Entomological Society in Philadelphia fully 
endorsed Mr. Johnson’s bill on December 13, 1915. We hope 
that other entomological societies will take similar action and 
acquaint Mr. Johnson of their act. Letters to members of Con- 
gress from individuals and from associations will help the 
cause. Mr. Johnson will be glad to send the reprint of his 
speech and of the letters to any societies whose secretaries will 
express a wish to that effect. 
Notes and News. 
ENTOMOLOGICAL GLEANINGS FROM ALL QUARTERS 
OF THE GLOBE. 
Punkies feeding on a fish fly. (Dip.: Chironomidae; Neur.: 
Sialidae). 
On July 4, 1915, while eating lunch beside a delicious spring which 
feeds one of the characteristic bogs near Beltsville, Maryland, my at- 
tention was attracted by motion in a nearby bush. Upon looking for 
the cause I found a fish Ay (Chauliodes fasciatus Walker) crawling 
along a small twig. This large insect partially lifted its wings at fre- 
quent intervals and hitched along as if in discomfort. When I picked 
up the Chauliodes, a flock of about six minute flies appeared in the 
air about it. and as I held the fish fly between thumb and finger seem- 
ed reluctant to leave it. This dispositicn on the part of the little flies 
enabled me to capture one of them. The specimen has been identified 
hy Mr. J. R. Malloch as Ceratopogon fusicornis Coquillet, a species 
which with two new species Mr. Malloch has recently segregated* in a 
new genus Euforcipomyia—W. 1, McAteer, Washington, D. C. 
Curious behavior of Cicindela unipunctata (Col.: Cicindelidae; 
Hym.; Formicidae). 
On July 14, 1915, the writer chanced upon a specimen of Cicindela 
unipunctata Fab. in a woodland road just east of Dead Run, Virginia, 
a locality opposite and a little down stream from Plummer’s Island, 
Maryland. An ant, Formica fusca var. subsericea (Say), was running 
all over the body surface of the beetle, which stood high from the 
*Bul. Ill. State Lab. Nat. Hien oc ce ve December 1915, pp. 
312-315. 
