any, seed cane will be saved the present year. This will necessi- 

 tate an importation of seed on a large scale, and we shall be 

 agreeably surprised if the accompanying importation of some new 

 insect foe to the sugar cane is not chronicled within a very few 

 years. 



Doryphora io-ltneata in England.— Mr. J. Jenner Weir, a 

 member of the London Entomological Society, found early last 

 spring a living specimen of Doryphora io-lincata which had been 

 taken to London from this country in a barrel of potatoes. 



Dr. Dimmock's Inaugural Dissertation.— We sincerely con- 

 gratulate Dr. Geo. Dimmock, of Cambridge, Mass., on the suc- 

 cessful completion of his dissertation on " The anatomy of the 

 mouth-parts and of the sucking apparatus of some Diptera," 

 by which he lately obtained the degree of Ph.D. at Leipzig 

 University. It is an important contribution to our knowledge of 

 comparative anatomy, and fully justifies us in expecting most val- 

 uable work from its author in this direction in the future. Mr. 

 Stickler's remarks at the Boston meeting of the American Asso- 

 ciation for the Advancement of Science, upon the field offered by 

 insect anatomy and physiology cannot be too heartily endorsed, 

 and we consider Dr. Dimmock's paper a forerunner of much ex- 

 . cellcnt work by American students in the near future. 



The Triungulin of Meloid/E.— " Nothing new under the 

 sun!" From a recent letter received from our friend M.Jules 

 Lehtenstein, of Montpellier, we learn that the old entomological 

 writer Johann Leonhard Frisch in his remarkable work " Beschrei- 

 bung von allerley Insecten in Teutschland, etc," tome vi., 

 published in 1727, was well acquainted with and describes, p. 15, 

 the triungulin of Mcloe proscarabicus ; while some sixty years 

 ^ter Reaumur, DeGeer, and other old cntonml .gica! v . l-^ lid 



the male 



of the Coccidaet 



Fossil 

 (Vol. 25, 



Tineids.— Mr. V. T. Chambers com 

 p. 529) as corroborative of the Tint 

 e, thread-like trails found by Lesqi 



m: ^no!i 1 from the Tertiary of Alaska, that he distinctly remem- 

 °ers seeing the figure bv the same author of a fossil leaf of Acer 

 on which there were several blotches, one of which bore a strong 

 resemblance to the mine ,f /../.:,. >>Ltis r.cn, '/,?, now made in 

 leaves of Acer saccharinum. 



Classification of North American Coleoptera.— We arc 

 g'ad to learn that the new edition of the classification of North 

 f^mencan Coleoptera to be published by the Smithsonian Insti- 

 an m 1S bei " S rapidl y P ushed to completion by Messrs. LeConte 

 H orn. The first edition was never completed and is now out of 

 * ,n t, but it did more to promote Coleoptcrology in the United 



