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A naturalized Panchlora. — Our extract from correspondence in the last numher^ 

 entitled -'A Tropical Cockroacli in a Xew Orleans Greenhouse/' has fallen under 

 the critical eve of Mr. S. H. Scudder. of Cambridge. Mass., Tvho is kind enough to 

 inform us that, in his opinion, Panclilora 6?<?'Uia?«e«sis may be stated to he naturalized 

 in this country. He bases his very just opinion upon the fact that Mrs. Annie 

 Trumbull Slosson has taken mature and immature specimens in different years at 

 Puerta Gorda, in the extreme south of Florida, a barren spot, "^ith but little vegeta- 

 tion and this mostly tropical. 



Eucalyptus vs. Mosquito. — Apropos of mosquito remedies, Mr. Alvah A. Eaton, 

 whose letter on the bread-eating mosquito we publish on another page, writes that 

 in California and other places where the Blue Gum grows no other remedy need be 

 sought for. Xo matter how plentiful the mosquitoes, a few twigs or leaves, so he 

 writes, laid on the pillow at night Avill secure perfect immunity. This is that same 

 Eucalypius glohulus which is now being extolled as a panacea for all ills and insects. 

 We should be glad to learn more of its value as an insect repellent. 



Damage by Locusts in Pennsylvania. — A correspondent iuMcKean County, Pa.^ 

 states that during the summer locusts of at least half a dozen species literally cov- 

 ered the face of the earth. The damage to cut hay amounted to one-third of the 

 crojD. In parts of Clinton County much damage was done and dryer weather was 

 never known. Xo rain to amount to anything fell from the first week in July to the 

 1st of December. 



A serious Case of Bee Sting. — A correspondent writes that a child three years 

 of age was stung about one hundred times in various parts of her body in Sex^tem- 

 ber, 1892. She was very ill, suffering from severe pains, followed by faintness, vom- 

 iting, and stupor. Xo physician^was employed and the only treatment consisted iu 

 bathing in spirits of camphor. The child was ill for some weeks and wherever 

 stung a small pustule formed which was slow to heal. At the expiration of three 

 months the child was still feeble. 



The edible Qualities of Ants. — It has long been known that the formic acid 

 present iu ants in such quantity is normally of such strength that it is not disa- 

 greeable to the palate. As a boy Mr. Howard tried the exj)eriment of crushing ants 

 with sugar and water as a substitute for lemonade and recollects that it was drunk 

 with relish by his companions. A correspondent writes us recently that one of her 

 hired men is in the habit of eating large black ants found in rotten wood. She also 

 states that her father, after eating a large section of railroad restaurant pie in the 

 dark, and noticing an agreeable acid flavor found that the remainder was swarming 

 with specimens of the little Red Ant {Monomorium pliaraonis) and that he must have 

 eaten some hundreds of individuals. He was satisfied with his experience, which 

 he did not repeat voluntarily, but he vouches for the edibility of this species. What 

 the original ingredients of the pie were is not stated, but the effect of the combina- 

 tion was to make it about as sour as rhubarb. 



A new popular Name for the Blood-sucking Cone-nose. — Mr. J. B. Lembert, a- 

 California correspondent, writes us concerning an insect which, from his description, 

 we take to be ConorTiinus sangulsuga. and which he states is known in his vicinity as 

 the "Monitor Bug." He says that it is found in beds, and that its bite is severe. 



An Omission. — The Secretary of the Association of Economic Entomologists, Mr. F. 

 M. Webster, writes us that in the list of members which he furnished for publication 

 in Insect Life, vol. v, page 131, the name of Mr. A. D. Hopkins, Entomologist 

 Agricultural Experiment Station, Morgantown, W. Ya., was inadvertently omitted. 



Additional Damage by Walking-sticks.— Mr. T. D. A. Cockerell, of Kingston, 

 Jamaica, apropos to our note on page 63 of Xo. 2, on reported damage by Phasmids, 

 writes us that Xecrossia cijUarus Westw. did considerable damage to a hedge (kind 

 not mentioned) in Jamaica in 1891. 



An Insect Enemy of Chocolate. — Dr. C. C. Beach, of Hartford, Conn., has sent 

 us the larva of S'ltodnpa panicea found living in commercial chocolate. They were 



