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He has probably not tried our favorite remedy, Pyrethrum water. 
—— The Pacific Rural Press cites some successful experiments 
made by Mr. W. H. Gilmore, in the use of crude petroleum for 
destroying the scale insects on the bark of fruit trees. A 
E. Hodgson gives in the Lutomologists’ Monthly Magazine for 
February, a remarkable instance of vitality exhibited by the 
thynchophorous genus Otiorhynchus, some specimens of 
ambiguus surviving after being left for over eight months ina 
poison bottle, consisting of a stopped glass jar with fresh laurel 
leaves which kill most insects ina few minutes. Itis well known - 
that other species of this genus have been kept in spirits of tur- 
pentine, in alcohol and in the cyanide bottle for days without being 
killed—_Dr. Theobald at a recent meeting of the Maryland 
Academy of Sciences, showed a beetle weighing tw6 grains which. 
moved 1320 times its own weight——Dr. Horn publishes in the 
proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, a review of 
the species of Anisodactylus, and critical notes on the species of 
Selenophorus, giving synopses of all the species of these genera 
of ground-beetles found in the United States. In the latest 
part of the Stettiner Entomologische Zeitung is a short article on 
the larvz of Parnidz, by C. W. Friedenreich of Blumenau, Brazil. 
——Mr. A. D. Michael has read before the Linnean Society, an in- 
teresting paper on the life-history of the Gamaside, a family of 
mites which are very common parasites of beetles. Professor 
T. J. Burrill writes in the ecu York Tribune, February 16th, regard- 
ing two cases in which plant-lice were found to be offensive in wells 
penetrated by roots of willow trees near Champaign, IIl. In 
Nature for January 13, is an abstract of a paper read before the 
innean Society by Sir John Lubbock, relating to the habits of 
ants. An account is given of the care with which the ants keep in 
their nests over winter the eggs of plant-lice. 
ANTHROPOLOGY.’ 
ANTHROPOLOGY IN France.—In connection with the Exposition 
at Paris in 1878, was held the “ Congrés International des sciences 
anthropologiques,”’ The superb collections of specimens illus- 
rating every department of anthropology added very much to 
the interest and value of the papers read. _These communications 
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D’Acy (E.)—Notes sur les patines des silex taillés des alluvions de Saint-Acheul, 
et sur Pordre de leur superpositions, 234—237- 
Ameghino, F.—L’homme préhistorique dans le bassin de la Plata, 341-359- 
Bataillard, P.—Historj que et préliminaires de la question de l’importation du bronze 
dans le nord et l'occident de I’ urope par les Tsiganes, 153-1 6. 
; Beddoe, J.—Sur quelques cranes d’un vieux cimetiére de Bristol, 283-285. 
Benedikt, M.—Sur les cervaux des Criminels, 141-148. 
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