1881. ] Entomology. 909 
been discovered by G, Eisen in a small rapidly flowing spring 
among the snowy peaks of the Sierra Nevada in California. The 
worm is described in a memoir, with two colored plates, in the 
Transactions of the Royal Society of Sciences in Upsala, for 1881. 
The worm is named Ecdipidrilus frigidus, and the family Eclipi- 
drilidee. The second part of M. Jules Macleod’s contribution 
to the study of the structure of the ovary of Mammals refers to 
that of Primates. Me has also published in the Bulletin of the 
Academy of Sciences of Belgium, abstracts of the results of his 
Investigations on the reproductive apparatus of bony fishes, espe- 
cially the ovary of Hippocampus and of Sygnathus. It will be 
remembered that elephantiasis and other diseases allied to leprosy 
Puscle. Seeing this, and the frequency with which the presence of 
the parasite is associated with lymphatic fever, elephantoid and 
other disabling affections, I have sometimes thought it would be 
Worth the trouble for the government in India to institute the sys- 
tematic examination of the blood of native recruits by their medi- 
cal officers.”—_In the same periodical Mr. J. G. Waller argues 
that the so-called boring sponge (Cliona) does not make the bur- 
_ Tows in which it is found growing, but that an Annelid is the factor. 
to this Mr. Priest demurs, who claims what is generally accepted 
by zoologists, that the Cliona does the work. He thinks the pro- 
toplasm of the sponge acts on the surrounding parts, and eats its 
Way into them, as the protoplasm of necrosis eats into bone. 
ENTOMOLOGY.’ 
Tue Permanent SupsEcTion oF ENTOMOLOGY AT THE RECENT 
_ MEETING of THE A. A. A. S—The Entomological Club of the 
A. 4A. A. S., which has had several most interesting and instruc- 
a tive Meetings, was made a permanent subsection of the Associa- 
: This department is edited by Pror. C. V. Ritey, Washington, D.C.,to whom 
Sommunications, books for notice, etc., should be sent. — GE 
