Vol. XXVl] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 135 



Notes and News. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL GLEANINGS FROM ALL QUARTERS 

 OF THE GLOBE. 



Change of Address. 



Harry B. Weiss to 242 Raritan Ave., Highland Park, New Bruns- 

 wick, New Jersey. 



Change of Address. 



The undersigned begs to announce that the Imperial Plant Quaran- 

 tine Station has been recently organized and established under the con- 

 trol of the Department of Agriculture and Commerce, with its head- 

 quarters in Yokohama ; and that he has been appointed the Director 

 and the Chief Inspector of the same. The undersigned at the same 

 time holds, as formerly, the position as the Entomologist for the Im- 

 perial Agricultural Experiment Station, Nishigahara, Tokyo. 



It is kindly requested that all communications, including those that 

 hitherto have been accustomed to be addressed to the Imperial Agri- 

 cultural Experiment Station, be forwarded to the new address. It is 

 furthermore kindly requested that all publications on the subject of 

 entomology, and also specially on the plant quarantine work, be for- 

 warded to the changed address. 



S. I. KUWANA, Director, Imperial Plant Quarantine Station, and Ento- 

 mologist, Imperial Agricultural Experiment Station, Yokohama, 

 Japan. 



A Parasite of the Cottonwood Borer Beetle (Col., Dip.). 



While studying the effects of poison baits on grasshoppers in a grove 

 of cottonwood trees in western Kansas, in the summer of 1913, the 

 writer was impressed by the large number of dead cottonwood borer 

 beetles (Plcctodera sccflator Fab.). Dead beetles were found at the 

 bases of the trees and on the ground at distances varying from one 

 to three feet away. 



The conclusion was drawn at once that they had been poisoned by 

 the bran mash spread over the ground for the grasshoppers. 



It was to test the validity of this conclusion that a large number 

 of the living and dead- were brought to the laboratory and a Ciut/eit 

 test for arsenic applied. This gave negative results but in preparing 

 them we found them to be parasitized. 



All the remaining beetles were placed in breeding cages and over 

 90 per cent, of the beetles were found to be parasitized by a fly iden- 

 tified by Mr. W. R. Walton as Sarcopliii<i<i rvr;Yf///</<; Coq., heretofore 

 reared only from grasshoppers. /'. scalator Fab. is thus given as a 

 new host for this dipterous parasite. H. B. HUNGERFORD, The Univer- 

 sity of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas. 



