1892.] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 123 



valueless in destroying the beetle." This is the only reference I have 

 been able to find to this tree, in this connection, until recently. While 

 attending a farmer's institute at Martinsville, Ind., my attention was called 

 to the fact that during last Summer the rose-chafer was very troublesome 

 in that vicinity, defoliating whole vineyards, as well as doing much damage 

 to roses and other cultivated plants. There seemed to be no remedy for 

 the pests, but later on the}' were found to be feeding in countless numbers 

 on the foliage of an Ailanthus glandulosus tree which stood in the court- 

 house yard, and it was also discovered that in a very short time the beetles 

 commenced falling to the ground dead; and, as the janitor of the court- 

 house expressed it to me, "the ground under the tree was literally cov- 

 ered with dead insects, and they did not recover again either." I was 

 shown the tree, which was certainly Ailanthus glandulosus. May it not 

 be possible that the foliage of this tree, if not the blossoms, possesses 

 poisonous properties which may render it an effectual remedy for this 

 insect? Prof. J. TROOP, Indiana Experiment Station. 



Cossid or Hcpialid?- I have found in northern New York what appears 

 to be a Cossid or Hepialid larva boring the trunks of black ash growing 

 in swamps. They work in young and vigorous trees; the pupal shells, 

 seen protruding near the ground, indicate a size nearly that of P. robinicz. 

 Does any reader of this note know what species has this habit ? D. S. K. 



TRANSACTIONS of the American Entomological Society, vol. xix (1892). 

 Pages 41-88 inclusive, have been printed since our last issue, containing 

 the conclusion of Dr. Horn's " Random Studies of North American Co- 

 leoptera;" also "The North American species of Ceropalcs" by W. J. 

 Fox; "A Revision of N. American species of Phlepsius (with a plate)," 

 by E. P. Van Duzee; "The Mouth Parts of Copris Carolina, with notes 

 on the homologies of the mandibles (with two plates)," by John B. Smith; 

 and the beginning of " Notes on North American Tachinidce, Paper III," 

 by C. H. Tyler Townsend. 



Entomological Literature. 



BIOLOGIA CENTRALI-AMERICANA. Part xcviii, December, 1891. Co- 

 leoptera: vol. iv, pt. 2, pp. 361-368, pi. xvi, G. C. Champion; pt. 3, D. 

 Sharp, pi. vi; vol. vi, pt. i, pp. 281-312, M. Jacoby. Lepidoptera-Heter- 

 ocera: vol. ii, pis. xlii, xliii, H. Druce. Diptera: vol. iii, pp. 1-56, S. VV. 

 Williston. Part xcix, February, 1892. Araclinida-Araneidea, O. P. Cam- 

 bridge, pi. xi. Coleoptera: vol. iv, pt. 2, pp. 369-392, G. C. Champion; 

 vol. vi, pt. r, supplement, M. Jacoby, pi. xlii. Diptera: vol. iii, pp. 57-72, 

 S. W. Williston, pi. i. 



TRANSACTIONS OK THK YORKSIIIKK NATURALISTS' UNION. Part 16. 

 Leeds, November, 1891. List of the ColropU-ra of Yorkshire (cont.1, 

 pp. 49-64, Rev. W. C. Hey. 



