1072 General Notes. (October, 
OsiTuARY.—Entomologists will learn with deep regret of the 
death of V. T. Chambers, at Covington, Ky., on August 7th—his 
fifty-second birth-day. He was a lawyer by profession, and yet 
found time to do a great deal of entomological work. His 
writings have been confined almost exclusively to the Tineide, 
and all of his earlier papers were descriptive in their character 
and were published mainly in the Canadian Entomologist. 
His later writings, published in Psyche and the Cincinnati 
Quarterly Journal of Science, dealt largely with the larval struc- 
ture of the Tineidæ. In addition to these various articles, he 
published in Bulletin 1, Vol. 1v of the U. S. Geological and Geo- 
graphical Survey, a list of “ Tineina and their food-plants” and 
an “Index to the described Tineina of the United States.” His 
collection was some years ago deposited with the Cambridge Muse- 
um of Comparative Zodlogy, and duplicates of many of his types 
are in the possession of private individuals. 
Just as the proof of the above is being read, we are pained to 
learn that Mr. Townend Glover, for many years Government en- 
tomologist, died at the house of his adopted daughter in Balti- 
more, September 8th, from an attack of apoplexy. Mr. Glover 
published his first report under the Government in the year 1854, 
and from that year until 1878 nearly every volume of the Agricul- 
tural Reports contains something from his pen. He was born 0 
English parents on the ocean, we believe, somewhere near ~“ 
Janeiro, in 1813, so that at the time of his death he had ente t 
upon his 71st year. He received his education in England, bu 
came to this country when a very young man. 
Entomotocicat Nores.—Mr. H. T. Stainton gives an ae 
esting biographical sketch of Professor Zeller in the June nun 
of the Extomologists’ Monthly Magazine, and we are glad to att 
that Zeiler’s collection has been purchased by Lord W alsingh fi | 
——F. Brauer, according to a notice in the Wiener Ent. Zeit, ! 
p. 155, records the larva of Anthrax flava as infesting No per 
larvæ, and that of a Tabanus and of an Asilus as eating 1 
Coleopterous larva—Jos. Mik (ibid, p. 156) confirms by í ey 
vations of his own our ‘conclusions as to the sarcoph or to 
non-parasitic nature of Cyrtoneura stabulans. E. H. pa 
scribes and figures an abnormal larva of Melanippe mon (Th 
which possessed the antennæ and thoracic legs of the maei 
Entomologist, xvi, p. 121, June 1, 1883) ——Mr. Newton = com 
of Ludington, Mich., gave us a call recently on his "Tii i 
Cambridge, Mass., where he has been studying Myrm lates 
with Dr. Hagen. Mr. Pierce has already finished some po 
larvæ, and has made some interesting biographical discov P 
We learn from Nature that the Swedish Gove 
rnment 
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made provision for an entomologist, whose duty it will ie ye 
vise farmers as to the best means of destroying injuriou? i < 
