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(In this department will be brought short notes from all sources, extracts from 
correspondence, hints, queries, criticisms and the like, and any facts of interest that our 
subscribers or correspondents may send to us will find a place here.— Elitors.) 
Longevity of Beetles, Mer. O. Reinecke of Buffalo writes : “In the morning 
of May 6th, I went with my partner Zesch, also a. coleopterist to a small oak- 
wood situated near the park, to hunt for Microclytus gazellula. We cut there with 
hatchets pieces from the bark of the oak-trees which fell in the umbrella spread 
underneath and I hadsthe good fortune soon to secure four of those lovely little 
Cerambycides. I put them into.a vial filled with pure alcohol and when arrived 
home in the evening stook them, out and pasted them, on small stripes of card- 
board with shellac dissolved in alcohol, which dries very quickly. I left them 
two days on ¢ork-sheets and then put them into one of the boxes of my collection, 
which close hermetically. ; ate if 
: June Ist, viz 25 days afterwards I chanced ta open that ie and found to 
my greatest astonishment three of them running around and the fourth could 
not be found then in spite of careful researches. “I put them into the cyanide- 
bottle, dnd by inspecting the box again next day (June 2nd) 1-found the fourth 
also very comfortably walking around in the box ; probably he was hidden at 
first on the underside of another species. 
“had sometimes examples’ of longevity among the Curculios but never among 
the Cerambycidae. 
Man- -eating Lucilia. Prof. Snow of Kansas published in Psyche IV, 27, an 
“interesting article spgeen ous [Man- -deyouring | habits of Lueilia macellaria 
Fub., the screw worm.” ‘his little fly is common from Argentine Republic to 
- Canada and is; well known to depredate on cattle and horses, as well as on men, 
(synonyms are Lucilia hominivoraxz Coquerel and L. hominivorous Cenil ; South- 
ee )) ; 
The fly deposits its eges in oe nose of a; ( sleeping) man, the maggots cause 
great pain, perforating and destroying all the tissue covering the cervical verte- 
brae, the palatine hones, the os hyoides, the soft palate and causing in most in- 
.__ Stances death. As many,as 300 larvae, were found in or dropped from one man’s 
nose. Prof. Snow extracted some cases froni‘medical papers, in one them Dr. 
‘J, Richardson of Moravia, Iowa, states that of twelve cases only one was known 
ify $0] him, in which the. pationt recovered, 
ay 
Sea-shore- collectite, _ The waves haying torn away the extensive bathing 
Pavillion of Brighton: Hotel, Coney Islahd, the Building was erected further 
back, just at the place where. formerly Luge, to find Dyschirius sellutus quite fre- 
quent. Now that ditch. having been laid ay, there was only a very small pool 
left 4 x 1 feet and at this spot I found 16 D. sellatus, about half the size of those 
captured in former years besides many J). sphacricollis, Omophron labiatum and 
tesselatum, also many Heterocerus. Vhe Omophron labiatum were also very small. 
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