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Mann’s part. He severely (and in our opinion, unjustly) criti- 
cized the managers of the American Entomological Society in 
Philadelphia, but we fear that no amount of criticism of other 
institutions, will make of the Cambridge Club the national insti- 
tution Mr. Mann would desire, for the elements of nationality 
have so far been lacking. 
Mr. Cook’s paper entitled “How the Bee extends its tongue” 
was an illustration by means of diagrams of the manner in which 
the mouth-parts are first straightened by muscular action, and the 
ligula then protruded by the injection of liquids from ramose 
glands situated in the head and thorax. 
Of Mr. Riley’s papers, an abstract is given in this number of 
that on retarded development, and we hope to give abstracts of 
the others shortly. 
_ ANOTHER HERBIVOROUS GROUND-BEETLE.—Complaint is made 
in Californian agricultural papers of the damage done to straw- 
berry plants by a Carabid beetle. The beetle has been deter- 
mined, by Mr. J. J. Rivers, curator of the University Museum, 
Berkeley, Cal., as Anisodactylus confusus. Jf this determination 
and the observations be correct, we shall have to add another 
Carabid to the list of species injurious to vegetation. We may 
remark here, by the way, that already in the Agricultural Report 
for 1868, Professor Glover records that Harpalus caliginosus had 
been taken in great numbers under wheat stacks in Maryland, and 
in open fields on timothy grass apparently feeding on the seeds. 
_ A Disastrous SHeep ParasiTE.—Reports come to us of great 
injury to flocks in parts of Illinois by a parasite that is new to 
sheep raisers in that region. We have not yet seen specimens, 
but from the accounts and descriptions given, it is evidently what 
is known as the red-headed sheep louse ( Trichodectes ovis). 
Mr. Daniel Kelly, of Wheaton, Illinois, an old time correspondent, 
found that by dipping the sheep in a wash made by Little’s 
Chemical Dip, the animals were freed from the pest. 
_ PayLtoxera NoT AT THE CAPE.—The commission appointed to 
inquire into vine diseases have concluded their labors and em- 
bodied their researches in a valuable and voluminous report, ihe 
commission are, however, anxious to say that their work is not 
yet completed, and that the present report is published mainly to 
Satisfy the public mind on the question of the Phylloxera. 
Having heard positively that the Phylloxera existed on certain 
farms, the commission at once visited those places, and after 
painstaking examination have come to the conclusion that this 
isease does not exist in any of the places stated to contain it, nor 
have they discovered it on any of the farms they visited. In 
order to confirm their judgment they sent home through the in- 
_ Strumentality of the Government, specimens of rootlets, leaves 
and parts of the vines to Dr. Cornu, who is admittedly the first 
