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written by Professor C. H. Fernald. A special attempt is being made 
to induce the people of the State to suppress these pests. The author 
states that “There has been such culpable negligence on the part of 
many of our people with regard to the tent caterpillar that there can 
be no doubt that some legislation is needed to compel the negligent to 
destroy this pest on all the trees on their own land, and thus prevent 
it from extending to the trees in the surrounding orchards. Provision 
should be made for the destruction of tent caterpillars on all public 
lands as well as in the forests, and village improvement societies should 
urge such action in town meetings as shall make it the duty of the 
superintendent of roads to destroy all tent caterpillars on the trees and 
shrubs along the sides of the roads.” 
Mr. S. H. Seudder’s Monograph of the Orthopteran Genus Hippis- 
cus which has been running through Psyche for some time has been 
issued as a reprint. The thirty-eight species are grouped under the 
subgenera Hippiscus, Sticthippus, and Xanthippus. 
Two interesting papers on the Butterflies and Crickets of Indiana 
have been published by Mr. W. S. Blatchley, of the Terre Haute High 
School. The former is extracted from the 17th Report on the Geology 
and Natural History of Indiana, and the latter from the Proceedings 
of the Indiana Academy of Science, 1891. 
Mr. Wm. Beutenmiiller records in the Bulletin of the American 
Museum of Natural History (v. IV, Art. XIII) an important List of 
Types of Lepidoptera in the Edwards Collection of Insects. This 
collection (made by the late Henry Edwards) “ consists of about 250,- 
000 specimens and about 25,000 species, representing all the orders 
and gathered in various parts of the globe. It is especially rich in 
Australian species and in North American species from the Pacific 
Coast. The present list enumerates 465 types of species. 
The department of entomology of the University of Kansas has 
recently published a bulletin of 126 pages concerning “Common Inju- 
rious Insects of Kansas,” prepared by Vernon L. Kellogg. The paper 
is well illustrated and will prove valuable to Kansas farmers. 
