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SIEANTNE?,"XT*Tnd Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine has been able to offe.r
liverpool University $5o,ooofor the establishmentof a chair in Tropical entomology. At a meeting of the Council of the University it wasresolved gratefully to acceptthe offer.-.lcience, !an,6 rgrr.
ANNouNcEMEnt of the Journal of Animal Behavior and the AnimalBehavior Monograph Series.-In responseto a widely felt and urgent
need for a periodical in which studies of the behavior and mental lifeof organisms may satisfactorily be published a journal and a monograph series have been pldnned. The Journal of Animal Behavior witl
accept for publication field studies of the habits, instincts, social relations, etc., of animals, as well as laboratory studies of animal behavior
or animal psychology. It is hoped that the organ may serve to bring
into more sympathetic and mutuaily helpful rel'adions the "na[uralists"
and the "experimentalists" of Ari.rerica, that it may encourage thepublication of many carefully made naturalistic observations which atpresent are not published, and that it.may present to a wide circle ofnature-loving readers accurate accounts of the lives of animals. Beginning with January, r9rr, the Journal will appear bi-monthly innumbers of approximately 75 pages. Each annual volume of six numbers .will consist of not less than 45o pages. The subscription price willbe $3.oo pelr volume (foreign, $3.5o). This low price to subscribers
can be maintained only if those who are interested in the study of thebehavior and psychology of animals promptly subscribe and work forthe support of the Journal. The Journal is under the editorial direction and management of I. Madison Bentley, Assistant Professor ofPsychologS Cornell University; Harvey A. Carr, Assistant Professorof Psychology, University of Chicago; Samuel J. Ilolmes, AssistantProfessor of Zoology, University of Wisconsin; Herbert S. Jennings,
Henry Walters Professor of. Zoology, Johns Hopkins University; Edward L. Thorndike, Professor of Educational Psychology, Teachers'
College of Columbia University; Margaret F. Washburn, Professor ofPsychology, Vassar College; John B. Watson, Professor of Experimental and Comparative Psychology, Johns Hopkini University; Wil,liam M. Wheeler, Professor of Economic Entomology, Harvard Uni
versity, and Robert M. Yerkes, Assistant Professor of Comparative
Psychology, Harvard University. The Journal is not the property of
any individual, and it is to be conducted solely in the interests of thosebranches of science lvhich it represents. All income from subscriptions and other sources, above that nedessaryfor the support of the pub-Vol. xxiil

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lication as it is planned, is to be devoted to its improvement and en.
largement. Reviews of especially important contributions within its
field will be published as they are prepared,and, in addition, a number
especially devoted to reviews, digests, and a bibliography of the contributions to animal behavior and animal psychology for the year will
be published annually. This review number is to be in charge of anEditor of Reviews It is hoped that this special number may proveof value to those readers whose library facilities are meager. The
Animal Behavior Monograph Series will be published ,in connection
with the Journal as a provision for papers which are too lengthy, or,for other reasons,too costly to be acceptedby the Journal. The monographs of this series will aplear at irregular intervals, and they will
be grouped in volumes of approximately 45o pages. The separate
monographs will be eold at prices determined by ihe cost of manufacture, and the volume will be sent to regular subscribersfor the price of$3.oo (foreign, $:.5o). Subscribers.to the Journal are urged to subscribe also to the Monograph Series. The Journal of Animal Behavior
and the Animal Behavior Monograph Series will be published for theEditorial Board by Henry Holt and Company, New York. Manuscripts for the Journal may be sent to the managing editor, Professor
Robert M. Yerkes, Emerson Hall, Cambridge, Massachusetts,or to any
other member of the Editorial Board. Manuscripts for the Monograph
Series should be sent to the editor, Professor John B. Watson, theJofunsHopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, from whom information may be obtaiued concerningterms of publication. Books and othermatter for review in the Journal should be sent to the editor of reviews, Professor Margaret F. Washburn, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie,
New York. A1l business communications should be addressed to theJournal of Animal Behavior, Cambridge, Mass,oN LrMNaprA PenrErrxe O._ S.-The splendid crane-fly,&ns
Limnobia parietina O. S., has always been regarded as somewhat of a rarity.
It was described by Baron Osten Sacken in
186r, from specimens taken at Trenton Falls, N. Y., "onfences, in September,numerous 6 and 9 specimens." It has since
been recorded from the White Moulrtains, New Hampshire, and more
recently (rSo9), Prof. C. W. Johnson has added a few more records:
Prout's Neck, Me.; Intervale and Hampton, N. H., and Lake Ganoga,
North Mountain, Pa. I have mentioned the occurrence of the species
in Fulton County, N. Y., in ENr. NDws for June, r9ro. I have thefollowing notes to add:
In early September, rgro, a friend and I were on a long fishing
tramp up into Hamllton Co.,.N. Y. On the frorning of the zd, while
passing from Silver Lake, near Arietta, to the White House on tbe

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[Feb., 'r'rwest branch of the Sacandaga River, I noticed an abundance of aproved to beTioulid flying about
laiee-in"- in- the dense woods. They'i;ki"ii"iiriiiiil7,*ood-' utong Nine-MileCiei-k were dark

little sunshine penetrated to the- ground below'
gloo-y, and very
-passed"ndfrom the shadows.into the bright suqWtr"i ttr."parietirw
fisht ttt.y looked very large and conspicuous. There were hundreds
ot- ro..itit.ni about, ind t-hey *ere the only large crane-fly in thissort bf habitat. They would fly lazily from some.resting.place'. andusuallv alieht on the trunk of some nearby tree, head upward. _I plc-ked
one 9 from such places, or seized them as they- flew..-"."'at'""d.fo*lu irrt. It is a notable late summer species,all of the records bee"gost or September.-Cnas. ?. Ar.Exer'rnnn,Ithaca, N' Y'G'];ri;;
Tnn Cor.nomdnonuv CaTar-ocus, published bt W. Junk, Berlin'
edited by S. Schenkling, began publication September 15, 1999' ,Up tohave appeared: r' R' Gestro,rgrr, the iottowing-partsi""u-""t,"nfr"r"6iai!; -2. ' F. Borchmann, Nilionidae, Othniidae, Aegialitidae,F;rlid";,iagriidae; 3, Alleculidae; 4 M. Hagedorn, Ipidae;. 5, R'
G*it", Ctp.aTaae et'Piussidae; 6 H. Wagqer, Curculionidae, ApjoniSchonfeldt, Breinthidaef & van Roon, Lucanidae:;;;-t'-;,-t'.-;;;o, p. Oti"i"t, Lampyridae; ro, E. Olivier, Rhagophthalmidae,Drilidae;
ii, a.-ieu.iir6, T6rirnochiiidae; tz, E. Csiki, Endomvihidae; r3, ScaM. Pi", Hytophilida'e; r5, H. Gebien, Tenebrionidae-I;
oiiiOiiO"", ra,'brachvceiidae
io. p. F"o..
;-q, Ph. Zaitzev, Drvopidae, Cvathoceridae,Georyssidie, Heteroceridae; I8, E. Csiki, -Platypsyllidae,-Orthoperidae,Phaenoceohalidae,Discolomidae, Sphaeriidae; r9, M. Bernhauer -eJ
K'K.-S.f,ufi.tt, StaphylinidaeI;' zo,-A. Schmidt, Aph-odiinae;-zr-.,.
Attt*rtth, Gyrinidie; zz, H. Gebien, Tenebrionidae.Il;.23, H' BickPart 24, S. Schenkling, Cleridae' is announced
tt"tat- Hirt.lia"..
for immediate publication. A11 the other families are in preparation'
The publisher ihinks that there is little doubt that the "Catalogus"
will be completed in about six years. Supplementswill be- publishedreEularlv aftir completion of the work The literature on the biology
d.u.lop-ent oi beetles, chiefly of the injurious species,will be"n?
with special care.
listed
TuE announcementsof the Free Lectures of the Ludwick Institute
to be eiven in rqrr at the Academy of Natural Sciencesof Philadelohia. c6ntain the following references,direct or indirect to Entomology''
Scientific Explorers of-America and Their Discoveries. By HenryA. Pilsbry, Sc.b., Special Curator, Department of Mollusks,-Academyof Naturil SciencesfPhiladelphia. Illustrated bv lantern slides. Mondavs at 8 P. M. February rj: Vovages oI the XV., XVI., XVII' Centuiics and their Geographicil Discoveries. Illustrated with reproductions of interesting eariy *aps and charts, showing the progress ofknowledge of westirn geography. FebruTy zo and z7:,Z,oologica1andBotanicaf Explorers and Writeis of the XVI' and XVII. CenturiesSit H"ttt Sloane, Bartram, etc. March 6: The Great ExH.rn"nd.r, 'Southand Central America and their Zoological Discovolorers ofiries. March 13:-ByEarly North American Explorations.
Henry Skinner, M'D', Conservator, Entomological
Entomology.
Illustrated by.
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colored lantern slides. ThursdayS at 8 P. M. February 16: Lepidopi"i". g"tt.rnies and Moths; thei; life histories, habits, transformations
Februa.y' z3: Economic Entomologv: Insects of,"J'Airliltrti"r.
-theHousehold and the Farm; Crop and Fruit-tree Pests; the san Jose.."f., Syp.y moth, brown-tail moth' tuss-o-ckmoth and other shade-treeo..trl -if"i.rt z: The Social Insects or Hymenoptera,-Bees,Wasps andi"i.-; itt"it habits, architecture and communities' MarcL 9: Insects
parasitism. Ticks and mites in relatir,' ,to Texas fev-er,
oiia Oii."...
sootted fever and relapsing fever. Horse-flies, stable-flies, punkies'
blow-flies, jigger-fleas, bed-bugs. House-flies in relation to typnoro
tu[irculosis. March- 16: Insects and Disease. Mosquitoes,i.rr.,.
""d history; mosquitoes in relation to malaria, yellow fever anditt.it tit"ht".l". St""ping'sickness and the tsetse fly. Some tropical diseases
transmitted by'insects.
Animal Coioration and Its Significance in Evolution' By, J' -PercvM;;;;:-- Illudtrated by lantern slides' Thqrsdavs at 8 P' M' March,i,-itry.icat and Phyiiological Basis of -Animal Color' Color in Rela:and Envi-ronment. Color Patterns' March 39:-ry1lilo"lo'f'"n*ion
uJ"ptl"" and Adaptive Coloration. Tvpes of A.daptive-or Usefql 9o1Aprif 6: Concealing Coloration. April r3: Warning 9ol9tt';;li;".
Changeable eolors' Dichromatism and Related PheMi-i"ty,"i".
zo: dehavior of Color in Heredity' Conclusion'no-.n".' April
Hes anyone had any experiencewith gas lamps used for attractlng
lamp tomoths? I am thinking of tuying a z,ooo-candlepower'gasoline
use in catchitrg mothsl A friind of mine in Chicago thinks a.gas lamp
will not attract moths, at least not nearly so many as -an electrtc ork..or.n" lamp will do. He claims the light is too white' I am anxioui to heai from someone who has hid actual experience'-A' F'
Decorah, Iowa.
PoRTER,

Entorraologica'l

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COMPILED BY E. T. CRESSON, JR.' AND J. A' G. REHN.
under the above heatl lt ls intenateat to note papers recelveal at theSclences' of Phllaalelphia, pertainlng to the En;-O,cademy of Natural
tomolo€:y ol the Amerlcas (North antl South), exclu.llng Arachnlda andArtlctes lrrelevant to American entomologi'y wlll not be noteal;
Ivfyri"ioia,b;t c;ntrtbutians to anatomy, physioloev anal embryology of lnsects, howe v er,w hetherrel ati ngtoA meri c anorex otl c s pec l es ,w i l l berec orded.
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North Amerlc&n form.
For record of Economlc Literature, see the Experlment Station Recor'I'
Ofrce of Experiment Statlons, W'ashington'
Society. Philadelphia'
Entomological
American2-Transactions,Cambridge, Mass' 65-Psyche,
4-The
Canadian Entomologist'
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