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London he visited Mr. W.Schaus, Jr., who has collected in Mexico and 
- South America, and who possesses many of the types described in the 
Biologia Centrali-Americana and will probably donate his collections 
to the National Museum. At Paris Prof. Smith found many of the 
insects studied by Guenée and Boisduval in the museum in the Jardin 
des Plantes. At Berlin he studied the collections of the Royal Museum 
and at Dresden the Staudinger collections, having an opportunity to 
compare a large series from the Siberian, Alaskan, and Icelandic and 
other arctic faunal regions. He hopes soon to publish the synonymical 
notes which he has collected, and informs us that these will sadly disar- 
range the just-published check list of the Noctuide. One of the results 
of his journey, which he mentions to us incidentally, is to the effect that 
Zanclognatha minimalis, which we referred to on p. 111 of the current 
volume of INSECT LIFE, is the same as Hermia protumnosalis Walker and 
that the latter name must replace Mr. Grote’s name. 
Prof. Smith’s experience in London, Paris, and Berlin corroborates 
our own in similar investigations, in that the collections in London are 
by all means the most available, important, and instructive to the stu- 
dent; those of Berlin next, while those of Paris are in a most unsatisfac- 
tory condition, and are of comparatively little avail. He reports that 
he found no collections superior to the National Collection in condition, 
arrangement, and accessibility of material. 
A USEFUL BEETLE MITE. 
It seems that the common Uropoda americana Riley, found so abun- 
dantly upon the Colorado Potato Beetle, has appeared in great numbers 
on the grounds of the Experiment Station at Columbus, Ohio, and has 
nearly exterminated the Striped Cucumber-beetle. Our agent, Mr. 
Webster, has sent numbers of these mites to several different localities 
with the idea of colonizing them in localities where this beetle is abun- 
dant. He announces, in the Indiana Farmer of August 8, that he is 
willing to send a supply of mites to any gardener who may apply. 
CHANGE OF LOCATION. 
Prof. Charles W. Hargitt, formerly professor of biology in Miami 
University at Oxford, Ohio, and one of the charter members of the 
Association of Economic Entomologists, has been appointed to the 
chair of biology in Syracuse University, to succeed Prof. Lucien M. 
Underwood, who has gone to De Pauw University. 
ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON. 
November 5, 7891.—Messrs. Theo. Gill and C. W. Stiles were elected active members 
of the society, and Rev. C. J. S. Bethune, of Port Hope, Canada, and Prof. H. A. Mor- 
gan, of Baton Rouge, La., corresponding members. 
Under short notes, etc., Mr. Schwarz exhibited some fine and complete examples 
of the galleries made by Hylesinus sericeus in the bark of Abies menziesii, from the 
Wahsatch Mountains of Utah. These galleries closely resemble those made by the 
species of Scolytus. 
