4l8 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Nov., I9II 



To limit the papers read at the annual meetings to those ol 

 general interest and importance and to insist that every papet 

 should be presented within a brief time, say ten or fifteen min- 

 utes. 



Papers treating of details of taxonomy, of morphology, of 

 anatomy, etc., without wide application, should be given before 

 the local entomological societies whose more frequent meetings 

 provide time for adequate presentation. 



Notes and. News. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL GLEANINGS FROM ALL QUARTERS 

 OF THE GLOBE. 



PkeservativEs against the attacks of DermESTids. — The German 

 Entomological Society held a discussion on this topic at its meeting 

 of March 13, 191 1, of which the following is a translation from 

 Deutsche Entom. Zeitschrift, 191 1, pp. 350-1. Hofig showed some 

 larvae and adults of a species of Dcrmestes which had arrived alive 

 in an invoice of cat gut strings prepared with naphthaline from Aus- 

 tralia. The material had been totally destroyed by these beetles. 

 The speaker asked if any of the members knew of a radically effec- 

 tive means against the Dermestes plague. Ohaus remarked that, 

 from his earlier experience as a ship's surgeon, naphthaline was not 

 a means for killing Dcrmestids if the material in question, skins, 

 feathers, etc., had already been infected with the larvae or eggs of 

 Dcrmestes before treatment with naphthaline. He recommended 

 carbon bisulphide as a good annihilator. Harms said that sprinkling 

 with anise powder was a radical means of destruction. Bertling ad- 

 vised the sending of raw materials in liquids to avoid injury from 

 Dermestes. Ohaus mentioned that in the rainless regions of South 

 America carcasses of animals, etc., are almost exclusively visited by 

 Dermestes vuJpiuns in countless numbers. Along with Der»iestes, 

 Trox suherosiis and Corynctes sometimes appear in quantities. In 

 almost all cases of injury D. vulpinus comes in question as Prof. 

 Kolbe had determined in the case cited by Hofig. 



On the Use of the Genus Araneus Clerck. — In the past few years 

 several arachnologists, Simon. F. O. P. Cambridge, Strand, and some 

 American authors have used the genus Araneus CI. to replace Epeira. 

 On the contrary I have held to Epeira, as it is supported by the various 

 codes of nomenclature. 



The case is very simple. Araneus or Aranea was not divided until 

 1804 when Latreille (Nouv. Diet.) created several genera at its ex- 



