804 General Notes. | November, 
minology of the reproductive organs of the Cryptogamia.”—— 
Ata recent meeting of the French Academy, M. Planchon de- 
scribed a new species of American vine under the name of Vitis 
berlandieri. Messrs. E. A. Rau and A. B. Hervey have issued 
a Catalogue of North American Musci, giving the names of the 
species and the general localities. A valuable contribution to 
the subject of insect-destroying Fungi has been published by Prof. 
A. Giard. Of these the most common is Lxtomophthora musce, 
so common in September and October in our apartments; a 
= second type is E. megaspermum, a parasite of the cut-worm or 
larva of Agrotis segetum; others are Æ. curvispora, a parasite of 
Simulium latipes, a species of black fly, and Æ. ovispora, parasite 
of another fly (Louchea vaginalis). He regards Empusa and 
Tarichium as simply forms of Entomophthora, and to be used in 
the same sense as in zodlogy the nauplius or zoéa of a Crusta- 
cean. He describes as new a fungus parasite of the flesh fly, 
under the name of Extomophthora calliphore. He then describes 
the appearance of a gnat (Chironomus) attacked by the Empusa 
form of Entomophthora rimosa, and incidentally alludes to Æ. con- 
glomerata of the mosquito. Finally M. Giard refers to the enor- 
mous services which Entomophthora renders to agriculture. 
“Nothing could be more easy than to multiply these parasites, 
and to introduce them into places where they had not hitherto 
existed.” The caterpillars of the cabbage butterfly can be exter- 
minated by watering them with water containing the spores of 
. Spherosperma. By collecting, in winter, these caterpillars, 
mummified and filled with spores, they can be used in destroying 
the hordes of caterpillars of the next summer. Giard also recom- 
mends destroying the cut-worm by sprinkling over cabbage beds 
water holding the spores of the fungus in suspension.——Some 
peculiarities in the anthers of Clethra are described, by C. R. 
~ Barnes, in the Botanical Gazette for August and September. 
ZOOLOGY.! 
EGGS or THE Tree CRICKET WANTED.—The undersigned would 
be much obliged for specimens of the eggs of the tree cricket 
(CEcanthus). They are laid in the terminal branches of the rasp- 
berry, plum, oak, grape, and almost any shrubs. The rows of 
punctures made by the ovipositor of the female are quite easily 
detected, and may be found during the Autumn and Winter. 
Send twigs by mail.—A. S. Packard, Fr., Providence, R. I. 
Do Fryine Fish Fry —In the September number of the NATU- 
RALIST is a very interesting article on the subject, “ Do Flying 
Fish Fly?” During the past summer I have been enabled to wit- 
ness the flight of a good many flying fish of the large species 
1 The departments of Ornithology and Mammalo ry are conducted by Dr. ELLIOTT 
Cougs, U.S. A: = 
