Vol. II, Ho. 4.] INSECT LIFE. [October, 1889. 



SPECIAL NOTES. 



Greeting. — The writer is pleased to greet more directly again the read- 

 ers of Insect Life, after an absence of five months, the most enjoy- 

 able portions of which have been the ocean voyages going and coming. 

 Paris is proverbially beautiful, and we met many delightful people 

 there, among them not a few entomologists ; but America never looked 

 more fair nor Washington more attractive to our eyes than upon our 

 return, and, while it would be incorrect to say that we are more ready 

 for work (which has not been intermitted, but was simply transferred 

 to other scenes) we cheerfully relieve Mr. Howard from the Divisional 

 harness and give him an opportunity for well-merited rest and vaca- 

 tion. In doing so we desire to publicly thank him, as also the rest of 

 the Divisional force, for the manner in which his and their several 

 duties have been discharged. — G. V. E. 



Lestophonus or Cryptochaetum— Professor Mik's Opinion.— In the August 

 number of the Wiener Entomologisclie Zeitung Prof. Josef Mik, in com- 

 menting upon Dr. Williston's "Note on the Genus Lestophonus" in the 

 May number of Insect Life (Vol. I, p. 328), confirms Dr. Williston's 

 placing of this form in the Ochthvphilince, and states that, in his opinion, 

 there can hardly be any doubt regarding the identity of Lestophonus 

 with Rondani's Cryptochwtum. The figures of the wing, he states, agree 

 perfectly, and so do the descriptions. He says that Rondani in his ex- 

 pression "Areola basali autica incompleta" does not refer to the ante- 

 rior but to the posterior basal cell, as can be seen from the third part 

 of the Prodromus (Fig. VIP of the plate) of this author. 



Entomology in Ohio — We received September 13th the Annual Eeport 

 of the Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station for 1888, which contains 

 upon pages 122 to 176 the Report of the Entomologist, Mr. G. M. Weed. 



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