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pect of a new entomological journal from Paris, under the auspices 

 of " La Societe Francaise d'Entomologie," a new society which 

 is being talked of among certain members of the Societe Ento- 

 mologique de France who find the old society too slow for them. 



Locust Probabilities for 1882. — In a letter from Missoula, 

 Montana, written September 30th, Mr. Lawrence Bruner gave an 

 encouraging report as to locust prospects. Starting from Ogden, 

 Utah, he took the Utah and Northern railway to Melrose, Mon- 

 tana, laying off at various points along the Snake river, and in 

 Southwestern Montana. From Melrose the route lay through the 

 Valleys of the Big Hole, Deer Lodge and Hellgate rivers, all of 

 which are noted as rich agricultural districts. From Missoula, Mr. 

 Bruner went down the Missoula river to its junction with the Flat- 

 head river and thence on to the Spokane farming district. In ref- 

 erence to his observations in Montana, Mr. Bruner states: "So 

 far I am led to believe there are no locust eggs east of the Rocky 

 range this season. There were a few locusts in the Hellgate and 

 Missoula valleys, also some in the valley of the Bitter Root. 

 They left toward the west and north. A few eggs were de- 

 posited." 



Entomological Notes. — Mr. C. A. Briggs gives in the October 

 number of The Entomologist (London, Eng.) an illustrated account 

 of a hermaphrodite hybrid between Smerinthus ocellatus and 

 Smcnnthus populi. 



Mr. J. Jenner Wier of Blackheath, S. E., London, has recently 

 studied some large collections of Lepidoptera made by Mr. E. G. 

 Meek in the Outer Hebrides which consist chiefly of gneiss rocks 

 and granite, and which are treeless and rather barren of other 

 vegetation. Out of 56 species he was struck with the coloration 

 in many which deviated from the normal coloring, especially 

 among the Geometrid;e which showed the gray color of the gneiss, 

 having varied in the direction of the color of their environment. 



Mr. V. R. Perkins records the capture of Heliothis annigera in 

 Gloucestershire, Eng., and remarks on its sitting head-down- 

 wards. 



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Mr. Morgan's Last Work.— It seldom happens that a literary 

 man lives to witness the completion of his labors. In the preface 

 to Vol. iv., of the Contributions to North American Ethnology, 

 upon the houses and house-life of the American aborigines, Mr. 

 Morgan says : " As it will undoubtedly be my last work, I part 

 with it under some solicitude ; but submit it cheerfully to the in- 

 dulgence of my readers." After the usual delay of printing, the 

 volume made its appearance just in time to be placed in the author's 

 hands upon his dying bed. " He feebly turned the pages, and as 

 leebly murmured, ' my book.' " The New York Nation, of De- 

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