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ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY 
NOTE ON THAUMATOGLOSSA (AXINOCERUS) AMERICANA 
JAYNE. 
BY HERBERT S. BARBER. 
[Author's Abstract.] 
On April 24, 1904, I found on the bark of a hackberry tree, at 
Victoria, Texas, a mass of Mantid eggs about which were numer- 
ous specimens of a Chalcid (Podagrion mantis Ashm.), and 
thinking that I might breed other parasites, I took a chip of the 
bark with the mass on it and put it in a tin box. On looking at 
it a few days later I noticed several Dermestid larvae which in- 
terested me, but as there was much else in the strange country 
around Brownsville to interest me I did not pay much attention 
to them. On June loth the adults were alive, and on the 2oth 
they were dead. Mr. Schwarz identified the species as Thauma- 
toglossa (Axinocerus) americana Jayne, of which he had pre- 
viously taken two specimeus in Lavaca Co., Texas, on the flow- 
FIG, i. Th.iumxtoglossa (Axinocerzis) c 
C? and $ antennae. 
ican i Jayne 
ers of Bumelia lanuginosa (one, the type, is now in the LeConte 
collection). A third specimen, which he took in the gall of a 
Coccid (Ollifflella cristicola Ckll.) on oak (Quercus oblongifolia) 
in the Santa Rita mountains, southern Arizona, is much larger 
and may represent another species of the genus. I bred sixteen 
specimens in all, four of which are males. The accompanying 
figure (fig. i) illustrates the antennae of both sexes. 
