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Myodites solidaginis Pierce. 



A female specimen from Tempe, Arizona, collected October 

 22, 1919, measuring 6 mm. answers in all other respects 

 to the description of this species, and cannot be separated 

 with sufficient characters from a specimen of the paratype 

 series. 



Myodites scaber LeConte. 



A normal specimen of the female of this species from Mc- 

 Pherson, Kansas, collected by Mr. Warren Knaus, is at hand. 



A small specimen from Hurricane, Utah, collected by Mr. 

 Knaus, June 14-18, 1919, at an altitude of 3200 feet, answers 

 in general to the description and compares quite closely to 

 the Kansas specimen, but measures only 7 mm. in length, 

 and has the wings hyaline, with only a dark fuscous clouding 

 in the form of fascia beyond the middle. It also differs by 

 having the vertex not carinate. This may be a different 

 species, but it is inadvisable to so describe it without the 

 other sex. 



The Eggs of Boletotherus bifurcus Fab. (Col). 



While collecting fungi in a swamp at Union, New Jersey, on August 4,. 

 our attention was attracted by numerous, small, oval, discolored blisters 

 on the upper surface of a specimen of Fames applanatus. These blisters 

 or egg capsules were composed of dark excrement-like material, each being 

 oval or suboval in outline, about 3.5 mm. long, 2.5 mm. wide and -from 

 I to 1.5 mm. high in the centre, sloping toward the edges. The average 

 thickness of the wall of a capsule was about 0.5 mm. Each capsule con- 

 tained either a recently hatched larva or a single egg resting on its side. 

 The translucent eggs were cylindrical with broadly rounded ends and 

 varied in length from 1.7 mm. to 2 mm. and in width from 0.8 mm. to I 

 mm. Several eggs were found which were only three-fourths of the 

 above measurements. The outer covering of each egg was whitish and 

 marked with slightly raised dots. Upon hatching, the larva bores directly 

 into the fungus and in time, the capsule weathers away. Many of the 

 capsules were placed in crevices or irregularities on the upper surface of 

 the fungus. 



HARRY B. WEISS and ERDMAN WEST, New Brunswick, N. J. 



