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-the cabbage, the imported elm-leaf beetle is noticed at length, as 
_ well as the lesser locust (Ca/optenus atlanis) which was destructive 
last summer in New Hampshire. The account of experiments 
_ with insecticides and the machines devised and figured by Dr. 
_ Barnard render the report one of high practical interest. 
= Extomotocicat Notes.—J. Chalande in an article on sensibility 
_ inblind cave-beetles (Anopthalmus) in the Bulletin of the Toulouse 
_ Society(xv, 1882), concludes with Piochard de la Brulerie, that their 
_ Sensibility resides in their hair and is proportioned to the amount 
_ ofthis covering. The species of Anopthalmus are less exclusively 
_ tave-frequenting insects than has been supposed, In the United 
_ States, on the contrary, no Anopthalmi have been found out of 
_ taverns——The insects affecting the strawberry are described by 
: S.A. Forbes in a chapter of fifty-two pages in the Transactions 
of the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society, Vol. xxt——E. 
Hoffer has published a paper on the habits of European humble 
bees (M. T. Ver. Steierm, 1881, Zodl. Record for 1882), in which 
_ he states that the old queen lays eggs which produce all sexes; 
‘those of the so-called small females produce only females and 
= Workers, He also speaks of the trumpeter, who rouses the nests 
in the morning. According to Dimmock (Psyche, 11, 392), 
; Witlaczil (Arbeiten Zool. Inst. Wien, 1882, 1—45), maintains that 
1 te so-called honey dew of Aphides exudes from the vent, rather 
than the cornicles. Dr. H. D. Walker takes the same view in his 
_ Notes on Aphides” in Bulletin of the Buffalo Naturalists Field 
: Club, 1, No. 6, remarking that the cornicles “ have generally been 
a as furnishing the honey dew of which the ants are so 
‘ond. This, however, I am satisfied from many observations, is 
‘Rot the case. The honey dew is simply the natural excretions of 
iptera and fig-insects. It seems that the 
y has acquired the drawings of the late Wm. Buckley 
acre and his voluminous MSS. - sapere 
£ ento Dably form the subjects for three or four votu 
‘omologists (not already members of the Ray Society), 
