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THE REPORTED DEATH OF M. KUNCKEL D’HERCULAIS. 
Entomologists in this country were greatly shocked last May by a dis- 
patch which appeared in many of our newspapers, purporting to come 
from Algiers May 18, announcing the death under remarkable circum- 
stances of M. Jules Ktinckel d’Herculais, ex-president of the Entomolog- 
ical Society of France, and French commissioner to Algiers to study 
the Migratory Locust. It was stated that this well-known entomologist 
was overcome by a swarm of locusts and almost completely devoured 
by them. We were loath to believe this statement, and in consequence 
waited for its verification before publishing M. Kiinckel’s obituary in 
INSECT LIFE, though we based on the report some notes of his work in 
a communication to the Scientific American. It now appears that he is 
still alive, and will doubtless take great pleasure in seeing for himself 
the great esteem in which he is held in the entomological world, by 
reading a variety of obituary notices in several languages. The Bulletin 
Entomologique of the Société Entomologique de France, dated the 24th 
of June, quotes from a paper read by M. Kiinckel before the Agricul- 
tural Society of Algiers on May 30, 12 days after the date of a reported 
death. 
A NEW HAMATOBIA: THE MOOSE FLY. 
Mr. William A. Snow, University of Kansas, Lawrence, has given a 
very interesting account (Canadian Entomologist, xx1m, April, 1891, pp. 
87-89) of a near relative of the Horn-fly (Hematobia serrata) which 
attacks the moose in the great cranberry swamps of northern Minnesota. 
The insect was studied and collected by Prof. L. L. Dyche, the enthusi- 
astic naturalist-hunter of the University of Kansas. 
The flies were originally discovered on skinning the first moose shot. 
A number of the flies were found 2 or 3 inches within the creature’s 
rectum, where they were supposed to have crawled to oviposit. 
Afterwards, in 19 moose killed, Professor Dyche found the flies about 
them, not leaving the carcasses as long as they lay unskinned, which 
was frequently from 24 to 36 hours. ; 
The flies are said to prefer the region of the head, rump, and legs, 
where the hair is shortest, and are supposed to be similar in habit to 
the Horn-fly, although no observations could, of course, be made on 
living animals. 
Mr. Snow finds the species to be distinct from serrata, and described 
the male and female as Hematobia aleis. 
MISS ORMEROD’S RESIGNATION. 
Miss Ormerod has just issued to her friends and correspondents a 
little slip announcing her resignation of the office of consulting entomol- 
ogist of the Royal Agricultural Society of England, partly, as she states, 
on account of her health. With the advent of cold weather she finds 
