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The work announced for the Lake Laboratory of the Ohio State 

 University for the coming Summer includes a course in Entomology 

 and the opportunity to carry on research work in problems upon insect 

 life. The entomological work will be in charge of Professor Osborn, 

 Invertebrate Zoology under Professor Brookover and Ecology under 

 Professor Jennings, all including matter which is of distinct interest 

 to entomologists. The session opens June 19, and additional informa- 

 tion as to particular courses or the general announcement may be ob- 

 tained upon application to the Director. — Herbert Osborn, Ohio State 

 L'niversity, Columbus, Ohio. 



A THREE-VOLUME Festschrift to Professor Richard Hertwig, of the 

 L'''niversity of Munich, in commemoratiom of his sixtieth birthday (Sept. 

 23, 1910) has appeared (Fischer, Jena). Of entomological interest 

 among its contents are : Minchin, E. A. On some parasites observed 

 in the rat flea (Ceratophyllus fasciatus). Schtschelkanowzew, J. P. 

 Der Bau der mannlichen Geschlechtsorgane von Chelifer und Chernes. 

 Zur Kenntniss der Chelonethi im System. Sasaki, C. Life History of 

 Schlechtendalia chinensis Jacob Bell (a gall-producing insect"). 

 Schwangart Ueber die Traubenwickler (Concliylis ambiguella Hiibn, 

 und Polychrosis botrana Schitf) und ihre Bekiimpfung, mit Beriick- 

 sichtigung natxirlicher Bekampfungsfaktoren. 



Under the will of the late Baron Edmond de Selys Longchamps, 

 his sons have been publishing a Catalogue Systematique et Descriptif 

 des Collections Zoologiques du Baron Edm. de Selys Longchamps in 

 quarto form with colored plates and half-tone text figures. The fol- 

 lowing entomological parts have appeared : Fascicules VL Trichop- 

 tera, pts. i and 2, G. Ulmer (Hamburg) ;.XVII Cordulines and XVHI- 

 XX Aeschnines, R. Martin (Paris); V, ist part, Megaloptera and 

 Vin Ascalaphidae, H. W. van der Weele (The Hague) ; IX-XI Li- 

 bellulines, F. Ris (Rheinau). In manuscript ready for printing are 

 Fascicules II Orthoptera, M. Burr (Eastry, Kent) ; III Psocidae, G. 

 Enderlein (Stettin), and Termitidae, J. Desneaux (Brussels); XII- 

 XVI Libellulines, F. Ris; XXIV-XXV Calopterygines, R. Martin. In 

 preparation are Fascicules IV Ephemeridae and Perlidae, F. Klapalek 

 (Prague) ; V, pts. 2 and 3 Mecoptera, Planipennia and VII Myrmeleon- 

 idae, H. W. van der Weele; XXVI pt. i, Agrionines, F. Forster (Bret- 

 ten, Baden). Each group is treated monographically and its considera- 

 tion is not limited, in most cases, to the material in the Selys collec- 

 tions. 



The elder son of Baron Edmond de Selys, Baron M. F. Raphael de 

 Selys Longchamps, died at the family chateau of Longchamps at 

 Waremme, Belgium. Januar>' 11, 191 1. in his seventieth year. 



