THE CANADIAN RNTOMOLOGIST. l79 



triqueta, while the types of Mr. Van Duzee's new species, Anthysamis 

 hicolor, A. obtiitus, Deltocephahis JIavocastaius, were collected here, A. 

 obtiitus being especially abundant. 



In reply to a question, Mr. Weed stated that he had found no 

 Myriopoda in this region. 



Mr. Smith remarked upon the difficulty of obtaining specimens of 

 Lepidoptera from the Southern States. He also stated that some of the 

 species figured by Mr. Abbott had remained unknown until quite recently, 

 and that in the British Museum there were excellent drawings of species 

 undoubtedly new, or, rather, undescribed, and which have not been since 

 found. 



Mr. Weed stated that he had been disappointed in regard to the 

 southern fauna, it having been his experience that there were plenty of 

 insects, but comparatively i^w species. 



Mr. Cook followed with a paper entitled " Do Termites Cultivate 

 Fungi ?" 



Mr. Hubbard mentioned some of his observations upon Termites in 

 Jamaica, which have been published in the Boston Society of Natural 

 History. 



Mr. Cook thought that the so-called fungi masses were only the wood 

 which had been eaten or gnawed off by the Termites. Old Termites do 

 not appear to have anything to do with these masses. The masses ot 

 fungi are about four or five inches through, and are not found in the central 

 part of the hills. 



Mr. Hubbard stated that these were different from those which he 

 had observed in Jamaica. 



The Secretary then read the following paper : — 

 THE WEB-WORM TIGER (PLOCHIONUS TIMIDUS, HALD). 



BY MARY E. MURTFELDT, KIRKWOOD, MO. 



It would seem appropriate that this hitherto somewhat rare and 

 inconspicuous little carabid should be brought to the notice of the 

 Entomological Club of the A. A. A. S. in its new role of a benefactor. 



I have been observing its habits for two years, and am confident that 

 to it, more than to any other agent, do we, in the neighborhood of St. 

 Louis, owe our present comparative freedom from the Web-worm 

 nuisance. Whereas formerly almost every other tree would, at this 

 season of the year, be infested with one or morg of the disfiguring nests, 



