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stomach in the head, and of the extraordinary course of the 
aorta in the thorax, and the elucidation of the very complicated 
arrangement of the sexual organs. Even the gifted dissector, 
Newport, blundered badly in these matters. We can, therefore, 
better appreciate the skill requisite to avoid a repetition of these 
long accepted errors. The whole field of insect anatomy has 
een much neglected; we hope, therefore, that other investigators 
will add to the excellent contributions of Mr. Burgess.—C. S. J. 
EntomotocicaL Notes.—The second number of the new journal 
Papilio, organ of the New York Entomological Club, comes to us 
with an increased number of pages. There are many descriptions 
of new forms by Mr. Henry Edwards and Mr. Grote; among 
nozoa; and the name Oribates, proposed by Mr. Henry 
Edwards, in the second number, for a genus of small 
moths is preoccupied among the mites (Acarina),——In the 
Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History for Janu- 
ary, 1880, Dr. Hagen describes a remarkably large species 
of Simulium (S. pictipes, n. sp.), the larvae and pupa of which 
were found in the rapids of the Au Sable river, Adirondack moun- 
_ tains. We have the larve and pupe of what is presumably the 
- same species, found by Messrs. Hubbard and Schwarz, in the 
rapids of the Michipicoten river, north shore of Lake Superior, 
and it is probable that this is the celebrated “black-fly” of that 
region. In the rapids of the Michipicoten the larvae were found | 
to have the peculiarity of floating in long single strings attached 
to each other by silken threads and the pup found in the quieter 
pools close by, resemble clusters of coral. Mr. Schwarz informs 
us that the Hudson Bay Company has furnished its employes 
with oil of tar as a protection against these flies, and he confirms 
from his own experience the fact that it is much better than penny- 
royal or any other substance recommended for the purpose.—— 
We learn from Mr. H. K. Morrison, of Morganton, N. C., that, 
after much delay, he has just received the insects collected by him , 
last summer in California and Washington Territory ——At a fe- 
cent meeting at Rochester, of the Western New York Horticul- 
tural Society, papers on insects affecting horticulture were rea 
by Messrs. C. D. Zimmerman and Wm. Saunders.——Two bills 
have been presented before the California Legislature aiming to 
rotect the careful farmer from insect pests bred upon the lands 
of shiftless neighbors. Mr. Wm. B. Lazenby finds whale-oil 
soap the best specific for destroying cabbage-worms, and treats 0 
other insecticides in the American Rural Home of February, 19th. 
