Il8 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [April, 



the vine. The moth will sometimes lay eggs on nearly every 

 leaf. The larva of Darapsa myron feeds on the same, but is 

 much stung by ichneumons. Empretia stimulea, according to 

 the 5th U. S. Agr. Report, p. 146, is nowhere a common insect. 

 I have found the imago in copulation, by beating, at Ridgewood, 

 in 1887, in numbers. The larva was very common on elm, 

 cherry, sassafras, and also on poison ivy; I could have collected 

 a thousand, but only took one-half of the larger larvae. Grapta 

 umbrosa was also common on the elms, but many had been ruined 

 by ichneumon and tachina flies. 



-o- 



COLEOPTERA INHABITING FUNGI. 



By W. E. SNYDER, Beaver Dam, Wisconsin. 



One bright day about the middle of last August I started on a 

 short collecting trip in quest of Coleoptera, making a low piece 

 of woods on the shore of Beaver Lake my special place of search. 

 When collecting there previously I had noticed an abundance of 

 various species of fungi, and concluded it would doubtless offer 

 many good things to my cabinet. I regret that I cannot give 

 the scientific names of the species mentioned below, but never 

 having studied them, I am unable to do so. 



Reaching my destination I soon found a very large, bright- 

 colored fungus, so dry that it was very brittle, growing on the 

 side of a large poplar tree. It was about fifteen feet from the 

 ground, so I climbed up to it, and, after some hard work, suc- 

 ceeded in breaking it off, and then descended in order to investi- 

 gate my prize. Carefully breaking it in pieces in my large hat, 

 in order that no specimens might escape, I soon had its contents 

 in the coflecting bottle. Frmn it I took four of Dacne ^-macu- 

 latus, over one hundred Tritomaflavicollis, six of Mycetophagus 

 punctatus and four of M. pluripunctatis. I considered that a 

 very productive fungus. From others of the same species of 

 fungus I secured some fifty more of the Tritoma and three or 

 four of M. punctatus, but not a single other specimen of Dacne 

 or M. pluripunctatus was found. From the same species of fungus 

 I also took a and 9 of Diapcris hydni. 



I next investigated another kind, and our most common poplar 

 fungus, and from one 8 by 12 by 3 inches thick, I captured nine- 



