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—Dr. Hagen, of Cambridge, has had occasion to study some- 
what Grote’s nomenclature. Hé wrote us recently of Aetia ar- 
gillacea Hübn., that he does not consider Hibner’s few words a 
description ; that the figure is different from xylina Say, and that 
the rejection of this last as having any priority in argillacea is en- 
tirely out of the question. We sometime since came to the same 
conclusion, Professor Forbes, State entomologist of Illinois, 
recently sent out a circular statement of a new Dipterous wheat 
insect which he termed “the wheat-bulb worm,” on account of 
its being found in the larval state at the base of the stem just above 
the root. From the figure and description we concluded that it 
would prove to be some small Muscid, but we did not expect it 
the Ontario Entomological Society last fall at the Montreal meet- 
ng. has called a meeting of entomologists at Minneapolis, on the 
Hi se August. All interested in entomology are invited to 
i n i 
Economic Nores.— The lesser migratory locust sei: 
k has proved extremely destructive in the Rear go yi 
Y, New Hampshire, the present season. Professor G. N. 
guy to strawberries near Carbondale, His., by an undetermined 
pa opod belonging to Chilopoda. A fuller account 1s given in 
rm, Herd and Home for July. 
