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nished with a pair of curved claw-like corneous hooks springing from 
sides of ventral surface, their tips closing on each other posteriorly. 
(Ninth and tenth segments each with a black circular or oblong con- 
tained body.) Spiracles showing on eleventh and twelfth segments as 
small nearly circular openings about the middle of segment near lateral 
margin, not apparent on other segments. No indication of true thor- 
acic legs or of prolegs. 
Length of larva (slightly curved as in drawing), 23 mm.; width of 
third segment (second from head), about $ mm. 
Description of Case.—Case is small, seed-like in shape, very flat and 
thin, a little longer than wide, pale brownish in color, composed of 
two thin layers sub-oval in outline, glued together on edges, narrowly 
separated or free at one end, the larva living between the layers. Under 
the microscope a single layer presents a reticulated structure, appear- 
ing as if uniformly made up of very small irregular pieces of nearly 
equal size. It is apparently composed of vegetable tissue, probably | 
very minute fragments of leaves. 
Length of case, about 33 mm.; greatest width 2 mm., or hardly 
more. 
C. H. TYLER TOWNSEND. 
Entomological News.—At the meeting of the American Asso- 
ciation of Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations held in New 
Orleans, Nov. 15 to 18, Chairman Lawrence Bruner, of Nebraska, and 
Secretary F. M. Webster, of Ohio, of the Entomological Section, were 
reelected for another year. But few entomologists were in attendance 
at the meeting, most of the Station entomologists seeming to prefer the 
Association of Economic Entomologists for the presentation of papers 
in reference to their work. The report of the Chairman of the Sec- 
tion of Entomology, Prof. Lawrence Bruner, was read by Prof. Osborn. 
The report largely consisted in a statement of the equipment of the 
Station entomologists as a whole, to which was added a statement in 
detail of the entomological equipment of each station having an ento- 
mologist. The report showed that while some of the stations were, 
well equipped with laboratory, insectary, and other requirements for 
work, yet there were many stations which had not given entomolo- 
gists proper equipment. Some of the Station entomologists lack -e 
for laboratory, others library, and many, microscopes. Valuable resu 
of a practical as well as a scientific nature are rarely attained without 
proper apparatus, and the Station entomologists need something more 
than jack-knives with which to carry on their work. 
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