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NOTES. 



ASOPIA FARINALIS AS A CLOVER PEST, 



In the proceedings of the Entomological Club of the A. A. A. S., at 

 Washington, published in Canadian Entomologist, page 220, it is 

 stated that I mentioned a suspicion that Asopia farinalis fed in clover, 

 and asked if any one present had any knowledge of the matter. The cir- 

 cumstance shows the desirability of looking such questions up with some 

 care before going on record, as I find that this habit has long since been 

 observed and recorded. In French's Economic Entomology, Part II., 

 Lepidoptera, 7th Rept. State Entomologist of 111 , p. 247, there is a state- 

 ment that " Dr. Harris says of this that it may be found in old flour 

 barrels ; but, according to others, it feeds on corn, straw, and clover," In 

 Tenth Report 111. State Entomologist, p. 157, we find " Lives in a silken 

 tube in old flour and old clover hay, sometimes burrowing into clover 

 stalks. July to Ma>, (D. W. Coquillet.)" 



Herbert Osborn. 



ULOCHiETES LEONINUS IN VANCOUVER ISLAND. 



I have lately received from Mr. W. H. Danby, of Victoria, B. C, a 

 specimen of the above-named Longicorn, which forms an interesting 

 addition to our Canadian fauna. A drawing and description of the 

 specimen were sent to Mr. E. A Schwarz, of the Division of Entomology 

 at Washington, who writes of it as follows : — " There is not the least 

 doubt that your beetle from Vancouver Island is Ulochcetes leonifius, Lee, 

 of the family Cerambycidas, a very rare insect, and one of the few short- 

 winged species of this family in our fauna. The genus and species are 

 described and figured by Leconte in " Report upon Insects collected on 

 the Survey " (U. S. Pac. R. R. Exp. 47th Parallel), p, 62. pi. II., fig. 12. 

 It is known to pass its stages under pine-bark. Dr. Horn's short note in 

 Proc. Ent. Soc, Phila., VI., p. 293, is all that has been recorded on the 

 habits of Ulochcetes.'''' It is a large, handsome, yellow and black, hairy 

 beetle, one inch in length, having much the general appearance of a staphy- 

 linid with long antennae. The elytra are very short, the wings not folded 

 at the tips, and the abdomen turned up at the end. J. Fletcher. 



