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ing of grubs with probably a large number away for forage, 

 and 35 were Carolina queens. It seemed evident that the 

 queens and males and some workers had but recently emerged. 

 It is probable that most of the workers had developed in the 

 uppermost comb and in time to foster the life in the lower 

 tiers. 



The male has a longer body with one more cross stripe than 

 has the worker. The queen name Carolina must prevail for the 

 species even if it were not older than cuneata, unless, for his- 

 torical import, it be henceforth known as cuneata-carolina. 



.DYNASTES TITYUS (COLEOP.) AND SPHECIUS SPECIOSUS 



My first sight of tityus was on coming south in the autumn 

 of 1904, when I found a dead female in our barn and the World 

 of the Little grew larger. On June 26, 1905, a pair was brought 

 to me from an orchard of early peaches. In after summers I 

 would take 50 to 75 specimens at their mid-July gathering in 

 and under a single tree of early apples. Their allurement was 

 the over-ripe or rotting fruit. Earlier and later they came to 

 peaches, plums and pears. Here is a decided example of mi- 

 metic coloring not only in the normal brown-spotted pear-green 

 but in the occasional wholly brown wing, or wings exactly the 

 Inie of a rotten apple or pear. The natural odor of living 

 specimens is peculiar and very strong. This, in connection 

 with denatured alcohol and the decay of body contents, renders 

 specimens so preserved somewhat offensive, but in time the 

 smell will pass away. 



In my ten years here I have not seen the pupa, but several 

 times have taken the huge grubs in the rotting side-roots of 

 old pine stumps. October 17, 1914, I thus found larvae and 

 a small female imago. But of most interest is the peculiar 

 habit of a late summer gathering on ash trees. I was told that 

 the tropical hercules clustered on tree trunks. On July 30, 

 1909, a boy brought me 31 tityus and the next day 155 more, 

 all taken from an ash tree at a farm two miles south. August 

 22, 1910, the same boy brought me 189 specimens taken from 

 the same tree, which he called black ash. On September 3, 



