On page 138, Vol. XXIII., is mentioned the finding, in rotten logs, of colonies of this species. The fate of the speciments taken on 30th April may be related. Unfortunately the individuals then taken were not counted, but they consisted of workers and larvæ, the latter being more numerous. The box was examined on 1st June and it was found that many of the larvæ had formed cocoons, and that the remainder were feasting on a green caterpillar, which had been dragged down into the nursery.

It will be remembered that at the meeting of the Club a year ago, Professor J. B. Smith gave the results of his observations for that year upon the Elm-leaf Beetle at New Brunswick, N. J., and concluded that it was single-brooded there. His observations were so carefully made that his conclusions could not well be doubted; yet they did not agree with those made at Washington, where the species had been found to be at those made at Washington, where the species had been found to be at least double-brooded. In the article which I had published upon this insect in Bulletin 6 of the Division of Entomology of the Department of Agriculture, I had discussed the evidence as to number of broods, both from European sources and my own experience; but Professor Smith's observations were so conclusive, so far as his locality is concerned, that I felt the need of more accurate notes than any that had been published hitherto, and of teh desriability of setting the question as to number of broods at Washington by a series of carefully-planned indoor experiments, where, by breeding from one generation to another, there could be no question of an erroneous conclusion.

In the January Canadian Entomologist Mr. James Fletcher had an interesting article on his “pet” mole cricket. At his suggestion I send a few notes upon the larval from of the same species.

On January 4 last, Mr. A. I. Hayward, connected with our State Experiment Station, brought me five larvæ of the mole cricket, which were found in rather a peculiar situation. He had a number of men putting up ice. The ice had been removed from a considerable space, when, wading around in the water with tall rubber boots on, he found the yound mole crickets swimming around upon the water.

The Box Elder Leafroller, Cacoecia semiferana, was very abundant in many places in Colorado last summer, and in July the moths were swarming in the trees in the evening, presumably to deposit their eggs. The eggs were found beneath a gluey mass, somewhat similar to that used by the tent caterpillar in protecting her eggs, but it was largely covered with what appeared to be scales from the moth, placed like the shingles on a roof.

In most books which treat of D. folliculorum, considerable space is given to a description of the lesions it produces in man, dogs, cats and sheep, while its presence on cattle is simply mentioned with the remark that Claus and Gros state that it is occasionally found on these animals.

Gros seems to be the first who observed it on cattle. His original article is not at my disposal, but I quote from Blanchard.

Male: From of Th.quadrinotata, Fab., but with the vertex shorter and more depressed. Greenish-yellow; head yellow with a transverse black band on the anterior edge; body black the segments edged with yellow. Length 4½ mm.

Head rounded before, very little longer at the middle than next the eye. Vertex a little depressed, anterior edge subacute; apex of the front two-thirds the width of the base, sides nearly parallel below the antennæ. Clypeus strongly widened apically where the width is but slightly less than the length, edge of the cheek rectilinear either side of the prominent lateral angle. Pronotum rather long, hind edge but moderately concave, the angles obvious.

During the last days of August, Dr. Kellicott and myself, in studying the Squash borer, Melittia ceto, transplanted to a large breeding cage a number of roots and portions of the stems of Squash vines, on one of which was a leaf or two. The cage was filled with earth, dug up in the field, and when the vines were properly transplanted, the cage was covered with fine Swiss muslin, and placed in the Insectary. I soon noticed Siphonophora on the stumps of the vines, and before long there sprung up, from the soil in the cage, numbers of plants of Capsella bursapastoris and Nepta glechoma.

As an illustration of how insects will at times survive what seem to be the most unfavourable conditions, I may state that in October last there was given to me a chrysalid of the Tomato Sphinx, P. quinquemaculatus, Harris. Having no convenience for keeping it in a natural condition, I took a bit of cotton batting and made a bed for it on the bottom of my hatchery, which is a paste-board box with a gauze cover. The location of the box is on top of a high book-case, hence it gets the full benefit of the heat of the room during winter, which was sufficient to mature some Platysamias by the 10th of April.

Marshall is the county seat of Saline county, about twenty miles south of the Missouri River and eighty-nine miles east of Kansas City, and situated among woods and fields; on the west and south open farming country, and on the east and north for three or four miles woods.

I have been collecting here for three years, and believing that a list of butterflies which are found here may be interesting to others I present this list.

Philydrus, Can, Ent., XVI., 186.—The paragraph commencing with “Philhydrus” should be corrected as follows:- Philydrus perplexus, Lec., and P. Hamiltoni, Horn, are found [on Brigantine Beach] in the fresh water pools which form at the base of the sand-hills, with Hydrophilus glaber and Copelatus glyphicus; while Philydrus reflexipennis occurs in the salt marshes under pieces of wood and recent tide-drift, seeming to inhabit salt of very brackish water, as it has not been taken in fresh water with the species mentioned.

When a specimen has become oily (Lepidoptera, Coleoptera, Orthoptera, etc.,) use a bottle with a neck wide enough to let the specimen slip through easily, pin and all. Put in this bottle enough common naptha to fully cover the insect, and introduce it into the fluid. Leave it in the bottle from 10–12 hours. Then take it out, and lay it on some blotting paper, where it will soon dry. If not yet clean, introduce in fresh naphtha once more.

Recently Professor Aldrich, of Brookings, So. Dakota, sent me two specimens of a Sarcophagid which he had bred from Cimbex. They prove to belong to the old genus Sarcophaga, and are described below. It seems impossible to identify them positively with any of the published descriptions.

On the Report of the Entomologial Club, as given in the Canadian Entomologist for November pp. 246–247, I would make the following remarks:-

Mr. Smith's statement that there are two distinct series in the Sphingidœ, as also that the Smerinthinœ have their probable orgin in Ceratocampid forms of the Bombycidœ are both original with myself. The series Hemaris, Choerocampa and Smerithus belong together. So far as I know, I am the first to show, from imaginal and larval characters, that Choerocampa and Smerinthus are allied, and I am the first to describe an ocellated Choerocampid from Brazil.

Grandfather Mountain is one of a group of mountains rising to a height of over 6000 feet, in Western North Carolina and Eastern Tennessee, and forming the topmost crest of the Alleghanies. The rocks are chiefly granitic, and the crags and peaks, naturally of a grayish cast, but rendered more sombre by innumerable blackish foliaceous lichens (Umbilicaria sps). At the bases of the summit crags the forest begins; black spruces and balsam firs, alternating with open meadow-like fields of the sand myrtle (Leiophyllum buxifolium), characterize the upper levels, and enormous hemlocks from 5000 feet down; but everywhere is a wealth of magnificent deciduous trees that can hardly be matched elsewhere on this continent.

Professor Riley gave some verbal notes on the above subject, covering substantially the facts in articles recently published in the Canadian Entomologist, and an editorial prepared for the first number of Volume V., Insect Life.† Both the Bean Weevil and the Pea Weevil were found to have temporary thoracis legs of a peculiar form in the post-embryonic larval state, and also certain prominent spines on the prothoracic shield. The eggs of the Bean Weevil in the field are not attached to the outside of the pod, as had hitherto been stated and believed, but are laid in masses within the pod, through an aperture made by the jaws.

About the first of July I was informed by Mr. W. E. Saunders that shortly before, when out on one of his Ornithological and Botanical excunsions, he had seen Melitœa phaelon, in a cedar swamp, two miles from Komoka station, which is ten miles west of London, on the Grand Trunk line. I took the first favourable opportunity of getting a sign of that insect alive, which occurred on the ninth. I found the swamp, and soon saw the butterflies disporting themselves in the sunny spots, seemingly quite plentiful. They would not have been difficult to secure had the footing been solid, but a previous heavy rain had set that afloat. I took five, and saw quite as many more during the short stay I made in the woods.

On the 21st September, 1891, on opening a small box of neglected insects, etc., I caught a glimpse of several minute black files as they flew out. At the time I could not imagine what they were. The next day I collected a lot of pupæ of Tachina flies and enclosed them in tin boxes to transform to imagines, but instead of the perfect fly appearing, the boxes were filled with the same small flies as I had observed issue from the opened box on the day previous, and then, as I remembered having had some of those Tachina puparia in the box, I readily understood whence the flies came.