Vol. VI, No. 5.] INSECT LIFE. [Issued September, 1894. 
SPECIAL NOTES. 
Change in the Office of Chief of the Division of Entomology. — Readers of 
Insect Life have probably already been made aware, by notices in 
the agricultural and other papers, of the fact that on June 1 Prof. 
Riley, who for more than thirteen years has held the position of Chief 
of this Division, resigned, largely on account of poor health and the 
wishes of his family. The honorable Secretary of Agriculture, follow- 
ing civil-service principles, has appointed the writer to the position 
thus made vacant. The present number of Insect Life will be the 
last one published under the joint editorship of Prof. Riley and the 
writer, and will complete volume VI. The first number of a new volume 
will follow almost immediately. Those readers who have found some- 
thing of interest in the pages of the six volumes published under the 
joint editorship will have frequent occasion to regret that the well- 
stored mind and guiding hand of the justly eminent ex-chief of the 
Division will no longer conduct the publication, but no one will feel 
the lack more deeply thd#*ih§ writer, who, through long years of asso- 
ciation, had learned to *£j&^$igetate as perhaps no one else could the 
great scientific acumen and unequaled supply of entomological knowl- 
edge possessed by Prof. Riley. — L. O. H. 
The Periodical Cicada.— As is well known to readers of Insect Life, 
Broods xn and xviii of the Periodical Cicada appeared in different 
parts of the Southern and Eastern States the present season. By a 
thorough circularizing of the region in which the insects appeared, the 
Division is in possession of a large amount of information bearing upon 
these two broods, the region hitherto mapped having been somewhat 
extended in certain directions, while some of the old localities have 
failed of verification. 
The Fluted Scale in Florida.— Many times during the past ten years 
we have received specimens of different scale-insects from Flor- 
ida, perhaps most frequently the Florida Wax Scale (Ceroplastes 
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