1885.] Entomology. 77 
Ovularia monilioides—On reddish-brown, round spots, 1-4™ in. 
diameter; hyphz fasciculate, hyaline, sparingly septate and often 
branched above, 35-50 X 34; conidia concatenate, 2-4 connected, 
obovate, hyaline, 12-17 X g-1t2v. On leaves of Myrica. Col- 
lected at Magnolia, Mass., June, 1884, by Miss C. H. Clarke. 
Spherella platani E. & M.—On round (2-4™") reddish-brown 
spots with a narrow dark but only slightly raised border. Perithecia 
epiphyllous, innate-erumpent (90-1204); asci oblong 8-spored, 
40-60 X 12-15%, nearly sessile, sporidia subhyaline, ovate- oblong, 
I-septate and constricted, nucleate, 14-16 X 4-64. Quite distinct 
from S. platanifolia Cke. On living leaves of Platanus occident- 
alis. On the same leaves, on similar spots, is a Phyllosticta which 
can hardly be distinguished from the Sphzrella except by micro- 
scopical examination. Perithecia epiphyllous, black, about 100# 
in diameter; spores oblong-elliptic, brownish, : faintly ee 
5-6 X 2.5- 30 —/. B. Ellis, Newfield, N. J., and Dr. Geo. Martin 
BotanicaL Nores.—The October number of The Miran 
contains an article, by Mrs. L. R. Stowell, on the microscopic 
structure of Hydrastis canadensis, accompanied by two good 
plates. Professor Trelease’s paper in the Aug.-Sept. number 
of Psyche, Notes on the Relations of two Cecidomyans to Fungi, 
has a botanical as well as an entomological interest. The last 
number (Oct.-Nov.) of the Botanical Gazette is devoted to the 
botanical aspect of the American Association for the Advance- 
ment of Science. Short abstracts are given of the more im- 
portant papers read before the association and the Botanical 
Club. An account is given of the excursions of the club, and 
finally the whole is summed up in an editorial note upon the 
results of the Philadelphia meeting, in which, after pointing out 
the good results which the meeting accomplished, the editor 
properly criticises “the low average quality of the botanical 
papers presented before the association.” In spite of the fact that 
the attendance included “ some of the most distinguished names 
of the science in this country, the botanical communications in 
no instance exhibit that profound research or comprehensive 
statement of laws or relationships, or other characteristics that 
would entitle them to rank with the better papers presented by 
the zodlogists, physicists or chemists.” We most heartily en- 
dorse the remark that “ it lies with individual workers to see that 
this does not remain so.” 
ENTOMOLOGY. 
Cc: bas: ON THE FIRE-FLY oF ITALY —Luciola i is one of the 
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have wings and elites the male has only six ool eats 
against seven in the female; but the terminal segment of the 
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