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This species very much resembles A. armigera Say in form 
and colors, but can easily be distinguished by the absence of the 
spines on the head and by the differently-shaped cT genitalia. 
It differs from the common squash bug (A. tristis De Geer) in 
having a comparatively shorter and broader thorax and in 
lacking the stripes on the head. The species is referred to by 
Dr. F. H. Chittenden, in an article on the life history of the 
horned squash bug, published in Bulletin 19, new series, U. S. 
Department of Agriculture, p. 30, 1899. 
Mr. Caudell said that he had just returned from Cambridge, 
Mass., where he spent several weeks in the study of Scudder's 
types of North American Orthoptera in the Museum of Compar- 
ative Zoology. He stated that the Scudder collection is now 
well cared for by the curator of the Museum, Mr. Samuel Hen- 
shaw, although it is obvious that during the prolonged illness of 
Dr. Scudder it had suffered from neglect. With the exception 
of those groups lately revised by Scudder, the collection is not 
as well arranged as might have been expected. Mr. Caudell men- 
tioned short visits he had made, before his return to Washington, 
to museums in New York, Brooklyn, and Philadelphia. At Wel- 
lesley, Mass., also, he had visited Dr. A. P. Morse, and had had 
the opportunity of examining his collection of Acrididae un- 
doubtedly one of the finest collections in this family in the 
United States. 
Mr. Benton reported that he had seen a comb of the giant 
honey bee (either Megapis dorsata or M. zonata) in the Philip- 
pine exhibit at the World's Fair, St. Louis, Mo. It was attached 
to the under side of the limb of a tree and measured about i 
feet in width by some 3 feet in length. There were 4^ cells to 
the linear inch, or 20 to the square inch, while the thickness of 
the comb where brood had been reared was i 7-16 inches. Mr. 
Benton stated that the workers of the giant bees are about as 
large as queens of Apis mellifera. 
Mr. Banks showed a collection of several species of Hymen- 
optera whose sleeping habits he had observed, During last 
summer he discovered a colony at Falls Church, Virginia, about 
a mile distant from the one found by him two years ago. 1 The 
1 Sleeping Habits of Certain Hymenoptera. By Nathan Banks. Journ. 
N. Y. Ent. Soc., x, No. 4, pp. 209-214, December, 1902. 
