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Notes and. News. 



BNTOMOLOQICAL GLEANINGS FROM ALL QUARTERS 

 OF THE GLOBE. 



Abundance of the Fall Web Worm. (Lepid.) 



In June [1917], members of the entomological force at Audubon 

 Park, New Orleans, noticed many webs and larvae of the fall web 

 worm {Hyphantria textor) on willows, mulberries, osage oranges and 

 other trees in the vicinity of the city — across the Mississippi River 

 southwest of Marerro (formerly Amesville) on the road to Shell 

 Beach, near Hahnville and other points on the Texas and Pacific Ry., 

 and on the road to West End. During the latter part of the week of 

 July 8th, the business section of New Orleans was invaded by myriads 

 of the small white moths of this species. On the morning of Friday, 

 July 13th, when they were most numerous, they were observed in 

 great numbers resting on buildings and telephone poles. The appear- 

 ance of poles and other objects in the early morning was as if they 

 had received a thorough coat of whitewash. The tops of several large 

 hotels and department store buildings in New Orleans are illuminated 

 nightly by rows of electric lights, and these, together with the street 

 lights and electric signs of the business section, produce a radiance 

 against the sky which can be seen for a long distance. It is evident 

 that a large proportion of the moths flew past or above hundreds of 

 ordinary street lights to reach the brilliant illumination of Canal Street. 

 Eggs have since been taken on sycamore, and extraordinary numbers 

 of larvae were observed on August 7 on mulberry, willow, palms, rose 

 bushes and bananas in the city, as well as crawling over a house. — 

 T. E. HoLLOWAY, in Reps. Nos. 4 and 5, Emergency Entom. Service, 

 U. S. Dept. Agr., Aug. i and Sept. i, 1917. 



The Entomological Collections of the University of Michigan. 



The report of the Director of the Museum of Zoology of the 

 University for July i, 1916, to June 30, 1917, dated October, 1917, 

 has just appeared. Special prominence is given to the report on the 

 Division of Entomology by F. M. Gaige, Scientific Assistant in Charge 

 of Insects. To meet its relations to the public, the department of zool 

 ogy of the University, other institutions and independent scientific 

 workers, the Division is endeavoring to acquire with the greatest ex- 

 pedition an elaborate collection of Michigan insects for general refer- 

 ence, for public exhibition, for loan to educational institutions and 

 for intensive study. Co-operation with naturalists in Michigan and 

 neighboring States has been sought; Dr. W. W. Newcomb has been 

 made Honorary Curator of Lepidoptera, Mr. E. B. Williamson, Honor- 

 ary Curator of Odonata and Mr. A. W. Andrews, Associate Curator 



