Vol. XXXl] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS lOQ 



Ecology— a New Journal of Entomological Interest. 



The Ecological Society of America, at its annual meeting in St. Louis, 

 on December 31, 1919, decided, without a dissenting voice, to start its 

 own serial publication. The Plant World has been generously offered to 

 the Society free of liabilities and will be continued as the official organ of 

 the Society, under the title of "Ecology." The new journal will begin as 

 an illustrated quarterly of about 200 to 300 pages per annum, containing 

 papers by workers in all branches of ecology. Dr. Harrington Moore, of 

 the American Museum of Natural History, has been chosen editor-in- 

 chief. In order to cover the cost of publication, it was voted that the dues 

 of the Society be raised to $3.00 per annum; of this amount $2.00 will be 

 for subscription to the magazine and $1.00 for the running expenses of the 

 Society. It is believed that the new journal will not only be of great value 

 to the members of the Society, but will be necessary to all workers in botany 

 zo6log^^ forestry, agriculture and other biological sciences. , 



French Grants for Entomological Study. 



The awards of the Bonaparte and Loutreuil foundations of the Academy 

 of Sciences of Paris, as published in Science for February 27, 1920, include 

 one thousand francs to Emile Brumpt for continuing his work on parasitic 

 haemoglobinuria or piroplasmosis of cattle, two thousand francs to P. Lesne 

 for his researches on the insects of peat bogs and two thousand francs to 

 A. Paillot for his researches on the microbial diseases of insects. Ento- 

 mology will go on in France in spite of the war. 



Furcaspis biformis (Homop., Coccidae.j 



On July 7, 1892, when judging at a flower show at Kingston, Jamaica, 

 I found a peculiar scale on leaves of orchids. The female scales were 

 dark and round, the male scales equally dark, but elongate. I named it 

 Aspidiotus biformis, and in 1908 Lindinger made it the type of a genus 

 Farcaspis. Many years have passed since I met with it, but the other 

 day, in a greenhouse at Boulder, Colorado, I found it in abundance on 

 leaves of Cattleya percivaliana (Reichb.) O'Brien. The new host plant 

 and entirely new locality are worth recording.. — T. D. A. Cockerell 



Mesocyphona rubia (Dipt., Tipulidae). 



Last June two of my students, Miss N. Higgins and Miss K. Fitzgerald, 

 captured specimens of an extraordinarily beautiful little Tipulid fly in 

 Boulder. The wings are black, banded and spotted with pure white. 

 I thought the species must be new, but Mr. C. P. .Alexander, to whom 

 I sent a sketch, at once suggested comparison with his Erioptera {Meso- 



