280 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Oct., '05 



I HAVE just returned from southern Indiana, where I have been spend- 

 ing a few days. I was very greatly impressed during my visit to that 

 region by the evidences on every side of the ravages of the larvae of 

 Ceratomia catalpcc. On my property at Hope, Bartholomew county, at 

 either side of the main entrance to the place, are two magnificent speci- 

 mens of Catalpa speciosa Warder, over forty feet high. As I drove up to 

 the place I was astonished to discover that they were as bare of foliage 

 as in winter, and was informed that the foliage had been stripped off of 

 them within a week. Near the trunk of one of the trees was a small 

 branch which still had on it some fragments of foliage, and on this branch I 

 found a belated larva of Ceratomia catalpte greedily feeding. On the 

 rear of the property are many trees, both of Catalpa speciosa and of 

 Catalpa catalpa Linnaeus. Every one of these trees was completely 

 stripped of its foliage. In the village I could not find a single catalpa 

 tree that was not either totally denuded of foliage or partially denuded. 

 One very fine cluster of Catalpa catalpa surrounding a residence, which 

 I have always admired when in bloom, appeared to be less infested than 

 any other group of trees that I could discover, but all through Bartholo- 

 mew, Shelby, and Marion Counties, Indiana, wherever I went, I found 

 that the larvce of this Sphinx had been at work. A few years ago the 

 insect was absolutely unknown in that part of the world. I collected 

 every summer in southern Indiana from about 1882 until 1893, and in all 

 that time I never found there a specimen of the larva or imago of this 

 hawkmoth. When I arrived in southern Indiana the damage had been 

 done, and most of the larvae had disappeared, evidently to pupate. One 

 of my friends informed me that the pavements at one place, where there 

 is a fine avenue of these trees, had a few days before been simply alive 

 with the caterpillars crawling in every direction, and that it was simply 

 impossible to step without crushing them. I can well believe that there 

 must have been thousands of the larvae at this point, from the fact that 

 the great avenue of trees had been completely denuded of its foliage, 

 nothing but the petioles of the leaves being left adherent to the branches. 

 W. J. HOLLAND, Carnegie Museum. 



HAVING resigned from the position 'of Entomologist of the North Caro- 

 lina Department of Agriculture at Raleigh, to accept a chair in the 

 Agricultural College of Ontario, my address, after September i, 1905, 

 will be Department of Entomology and Zoology, Ontario Agricultural 

 College, Guelph, Canada. Mailing-lists, etc., will be corrected accord- 

 ingly. For the present at least, Mr. R. S. Woglum will have charge of 

 the work in North Carolina. FRANKLIN SHERMAN, JR. 



I AM engaged in a study of the North American Scarabaeidae with a 

 view toward an ultimate monograph of this family, and will be glad to 

 receive any information as to habits, larval stages, food, methods of cap- 

 ture, etc. I would also be thankful for damaged specimens for study of 

 the mouth parts, and will gladly pay transportation. C. B. HARDENBERG, 

 224 Washington Ave., Madison, Wisconsin. 



