822 General Notes. [ October, 
report submitted of the efforts hitherto made to create a chair of 
entomology in the State university. The people of the Pacific 
coast are evidently alive to the importance of studying their 
insect enemies, and we may expect soon to see some definite action 
taken by the State government. 
Driar 1n Nortu America.—Mr. R. McLachlan describes in the 
August number of the Extomologist’s Monthly Magazine (p. 55); 
under the name of Dilar americanus, the first species of this very 
singular (Neuropterous) genus known from North America. The 
typical specimen (a female) was collected by Mr. F. G. Sanborn at 
Bee Spring, Ky., in June, 1874. 
Locusts 1n Nevapa.—The Reno (Nevada) Fournal reports that 
the countless locusts that hatched in Western Nevada this spring 
did not do any damage, but emigrated in great swarms after 
having acquired wings, towards the Sierra Nevada, failing, 
seems, to cross the mountains. 
Opor tn BurrerFiies.—Dr. Fritz Miiller read a paper before 
the London Entomological Society, June 5, 1878, on the peculiar 
odor emitted by the males of some Brazilian butterflies. .Miss 
Mary E, Murtfeldt calls attention, in the April number of Psyche, 
to the fact that some years before the publication of Dr. Millers 
paper she observed, while spreading fresh male specimens of Cal- 
lidryas eubule, a delicate, violet-like odor emitted from the spect 
mens, and which was retained, to some extent, for several days; 
the females being not at all fragrant. 
ENTOMOLOGY AT THE RECENT MEETING oF THE A. A. A. S— 
Our report of the meeting of the permanent sub-section of Ento- 
mology of the A. A. A. S. is crowded out of this number. 
ANTHROPOLOGY.' 
Tue InpIAns oF Berks county, Pa.—In our bibliographical 
list will be found the complete title of a work upon the Indians © 
Berks county, Pennsylvania, by Mr. D. B. Brunner. The volume 
consists of 110 pages of printed matter and 34 plates, containing 
176 figures of stone implements and pottery. The people 
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and the Minsis, or Wolves. The Wolf tribe extended Ve 
south-eastern part of Pennsylvania, including Berks county. al 
greater part of the matter in the volume is of the highest loc i 
interest, but there are several sections invaluable to the anther 
ogist. We notice on page 65 a very sensible and sufficient sat? 
assigned for the Indian massacres and the expulsion of the De a- 
wares from Berks county. Some allusions to aboriginal writing 
will be found at page 68, to cemeteries on page 73, to collections 
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