PS UCII. ITEMS. - Hindawi · 2019. 8. 1. · JulyAugust 8,q3. PSUCII. 79 ENTOMOLOGICAL ITEMS. THE SEVENTH congress of Russian natu- ralists and physicians will be held this year at

JulyAugust 8,q3. PSUCII. 79

ENTOMOLOGICAL ITEMS.THE SEVENTH congress of Russian natu-

ralists and physicians will be held this yearat Odessa. fl’om 30 Aug. to 9 Sept.DR. HAGEN notes in the April numero

of the EntomologiSt’s too. magazine, that

Simulium, the "black-fly," sucks out the juicesof chrysalids of Pieris mezaia.THE FRST numero of Zoologr)che ldei-

z’rEe, a new German journal, contains a

paper by Prof: Anton Schneider on the de-

velopment ofStkaerglaria omi, the curiousheminth parasitic in

WILLIAM ALEXANI)ER FORBES, a risingEnglish naturalist who has devoted muchtime to entomology, died at Shonga, on theupper Niger, Africa, on 14 Jan. 1883. Hewas born at Cheltenham, England, 24 Junex855.FROM SEVERAL parts of Sweden the ap-

pearance of an unknown caterpillar, whichconsumes the crops, is reported. Its lengthis from one inch to one and a half, and its

color grey-brown with green stripes. In one

place it put in an appearance immediatelyafter a violent storm with rain. The Acade-

my of agriculture has despatched an ento-

mologist to visit the places from which it is

reported.2Vature, 5 July 883, v. 8, p. 234.PROF. PHILLIP CHRISTOPH ZELLER, of

Grtinhof, near Stettin, Germany, died at thatplace 7 March 883. He was born 9 AprilI8O8, at Steinheim-on-the-Mfirr, in Wtirttem-

berg. Prof. Zeller was a well-known au-

thority on microlepidoptera, some of his

papers dealing with those of North America.An interesting biography of Prof Zeller, byIt. T. Stainton, is given in the Ento.molo-

gqst’s mo/kly magazie, June 1883, v. 20,

p. -8.

MR. EDMUND BAYNES RRRD has compileda very convenient ’General index to the

thirteen annual reports of the Entomologicalsociety of the province of Ontario, 87o-88" which has been published by the soci-

ety. In a few instances the compiler, prob-ably inadvertently, has used lower-case ini-

tial letters for generic names, and oftenlower-case letters for specific names derivedfrom names of persons, mythological char-acters and places. A consistent and generaluse of lower-case initial letters, at least for

species, would have been still more accept-able to the writer. Some errors in ortho-

graphy and typography occur, but do not les-sen the general usefulness of Mr. Reed’sindex. G: D.M. tREDERICO,.., of Li6ge, says the tnglfsk

"mechanic, lately put several aquatic coleoptera(including the great water beetle) in aqueoussolution of curare and strychnine in poison-ous quantity. A few drops of these liquorssufficed to poison a fl’og in a few minutes.

The insects, however, lived in them, some

more than a fortnight, others nearly a month

(when the experiment was concluded). These

coleoptera are certainly sensible to the action

of curare and strychnine, and the absence

of symptoms of poisoning in the presentcase must be (the author says) because theabsorption by the surface of the body andthe mouth was nil. M. Plateau has previous-ly observed that aquatic coleoptera kept in

sea water do not absorb its salts.Amer.

nat., Aug. 883, v. 7, P’ 903"904IN THE Bulletin of the Bztflralo naturalists,

field club for March of the present year(883), Prof. D. S. Kellicott, of Buffalo,describes and figures a remarkable larvawhich he has this year found parasitic uponand destroying nearly all of the galls of Ceci-

dom2,ia salicis-balatus that had formerlyabounded upon some low willows occupyingwaste land near the city. The larva was

fbund to be a species of Plalyaster belong-ing to the group known as that of the "cy-clops larvae," from the great resemblanceits larvae bear to the crustaceans of the ge-nus Cyclobs. The peculiar manner in whichthe five-jointed abdomen is folded under-neath the body, like that of a tray-fish pro-tecting her eggs, makes it a very interestingforll3.We hope that Prof. Kellicott may soon

be able to determine the species, if it be onethat has already been described. r. A. L.

PSY’CII. [.|uly--Auff. $R3.

IN A brief paper upon "Insects injuriousto fruit," by Mrs. Mary Treat, read beforethe New Jersey state horticultural society,at its annual meeting in January last, amongother items of interest, a statement was madeof a remarkable collection of "cut-worms" bythe writer, which may serve to show thevalue of the same method of dealing withthese notorious pests, when employed upon a

larger seale. Some phlox bordering a car-

riage-way through an orchard of dwarf peartrees was observed one morning to be partlydenuded of it leaves and flower-buds. Thecause being suspected, it was examined the

following evening" vith a light, when "un-told numbers of cut-worms were seen anaong"

the flower-buds." Nmnerous worms were

at work on the branches of a plum treebeside them. A large number of worms

were found eating into the just expanding"buds of the pear-trees.The soil around the phlox was examined,

and the first collection resulted in over a

pint of worms of various sizes. The besttime for this search Was found to be aboutdusk in the evening, for the worms were

thc: just beneath the surface of the ground.e/.A.L.

SOCIETY MEETINGS.THE REGULAR meetings of the Cambridge

Entomological Club will be held at 7.45 P. m.,on the days following :

12 Oct. I883. 4 Mar. 1884.9Nv" 1i Apr.14 Dec. 9 May1I Jan. I884. 1.3 June8 Feb.

G. DIMMOCK, Secre/,a7.

THE NEW YORK Entomological Club meetstwice monthly, except in June, July and

August, but no special date is fixed for each

meeting.HENRY EDWARDS, Secredary.

THE REGULAR meetings of the Entomo-logical Section of the Boston Society of

Natural ttistory will be held at N. W. cornerof Berkeley and Boylston Sts., Boston, Mass.,at 7.45 P. m., on the days following :

24 Oct. 1883. 27 Feb. 188428 Nov. 26 Mar.26 Dec. 23 Apr.23 Jan. 1884. 28 May

EDWARD BURGESS, Secretar},.

TH REGULAR meetings of the Entomo-logical Section of the Academy of NaturalSciences, of Philadelphia, Pa., will be heldat S. W. corner of I9th and Race Sis., on the

days following :I2 Oct. 1883. 14 Mar. 1884.9Nv" 1I Apr.14 Dec. 9 MayII Jan. 1884. 13 June8 Feb.

JAMES H. R/DINGS, Recorder.

THE SEMI-ANNUAL meetings of the Ameri-

can Entomological Society will be held at S.W. corner of I9th and Race Sts., Philadelphia,Pa., on the days following

IO Dec. 1883. 9 June 1884.JAMES H. RIDINGS, Recording" Secretary.

’I’HE REGULAR monthly meetings of the

Montreal Branch of the Entomological Soci-

ety of Ontario, will be held at Montreal, Qge.,Canada, on the days following :

2 Oct. 1883. 5 Feb. 1884.6 Nov. 4 Mar.

4 Dec. Apr.8Jan. i884. 6 May

G. J. ]XIOWLES, Secreta:y.

TIIE MONTHLY neetings of the BrooklynEntomological Society will be held in the

rooms of Wright’s Business College, Broad-

way, corner of Fourth Street, Brooklyn,E. D., the last Saturday of each month ex-

cept July and August.F. G. SCHAUPP, Secretary.

No. lO9-11o were issued I July 1883.

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