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old tin can, and bnry it in the ants' nest, afterward taking it into the 
house and placing it beside the bed. Then he recommends that a bug 
or two be hunted up and placed in the can in order, as it were, to rouse 
a slumbering appetite for bugs in the ants. After that, he remarks, 
there is great satisfaction and much sport in seeing the ants run the 
bugs down and dismember them. 
NORTHWARD RANGE OF THE WHEEL BUG. 
Through the kindness of Mr. W. B. Sargent, of New York, we have 
received two specimens of PHonidus cristatus which were taken on the 
stone wall of Sleepy Hollow Cemetery at Tarrytown-on-the-Hudson, 
N. Y. This is most northerly point from which we have received this 
insect and we shall be glad to hear from readers who have found it 
farther north. 
NORTH AMERICAN TRYPETID^E. 
Mr. William A. Snow, in the Kansas University Quarterly (vol. n, 
No. 3, 1894), publishes a careful paper upon the Trypetida? in the 
Museum of the University of Kansas. He gives descriptive notes indi- 
cating variations among the described species and characterizes 14 new 
species and two new genera. Two excellent plates showing wing char- 
acters of twenty-four forms are given. 
THE ORANGE FLY IN MALTA. 
In our article on the Morelos Orange Fruit- worm, in Insect Life, 
(vol. I, p. 45,) and that on a Peach Pest in Bermuda (vol. in, p. 5), 
we have referred to the damage done in Mediterranean countries to 
Citrus and other fruits by Ceratitis capitata. In the December (1893) 
number of the Mediterranean Naturalist there is a short review of a 
pamphlet published in the Maltese dialect by Prof. N. Tagliaferro, at the 
expeuse of the Agricultural Society of Malta, aud which gives a popular 
exposition of the life and habits of the insect and some consideration of 
the available remedies. He insists on the necessity of the gathering of all 
rotten fruit which has fallen to the ground, aud proposes a means of his 
own discovery for considerably diminishing the damage. In October 
he smears with honey a few oranges on each tree. The adult flies 
gathered quickly around the honey and were readily captured. This 
remedy will be of some use where a few trees are to be protected and 
suggests the advisability of experimentation on a large scale. 
LOCUSTS AND COCKROACHES OF INDIANA: 
Mr. W. S. Blatchley has favored us with an important paper entitled 
" The Locustida3 and Blattidae of Indiana," extracted from the Pro- 
ceedings of the Indiana Academy of Sciences for 1892. These groups 
have been but little studied in the United States, and the consideration 
