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live ants evidently preying on the food of the pitchers, and we 

 also found several pupae of a tachinid which has since been bred 

 and determined bv Prof. J. M. Aldrich as Senotainia trilineata 

 Vand. 



The opening of the pitchers of Sarracenia psittacina and a 

 similar species are very small and consequently the prey was con- 

 fined to smaller insects, principally midges although fragments 

 of a water beetle and other beetles were found. 



Drosera rotundifolia only appears to catch tin}' Diptera and 

 the order seems to represent the principal catch of Drosera fili- 

 formis. 



In a recent paper before the Society I called attention to the 

 fact that Prionomerus calceatus Say., mines the leaves of Lirio- 

 dendron and Sassafras at Washington. The old Bureau files 

 contain mention of the breeding of this species from the leaves 

 of a Magnolia in Florida. It was therefore with considerable 

 satisfaction that I found this weevil mining the leaves of the bay, 

 Magnolia virginiana L. at Thomasville and Coolidge, Ga. Al- 

 though I have found this weevil mining the leaves of Sassafras 

 at Clarksville, Tenn., I was unable to find it on this tree or on 

 the Liriodendron at any place in southern Georgia although 

 these trees grow side by side with well infested Magnolia. I 

 watched for mines on these trees from Albany to Cuthbert, Ga., 

 from Decatur to Moulton, Ala., and around Memphis, Tenn., 

 without results. 



The common cowpea weevil was found freely feeding on the 

 terminal buds of cotton at Thomasville and Boston, Ga. Near 

 Albany, Ga., along a roadside by a field which probably had 

 been in cowpeas last year, this species was very common and feed- 

 ing on the tender stems of Smilax, Ambrosia, Sassafras, Liquidam- 

 bar, Rubus, and Melia. This note is of interest to show how 

 some of our common weevils of cultivated crops pass the season 

 preceding the development of their natural food plants. 



At Decatur, Ala., I was surprised to find the flat galls of Phyl- 

 loxera caryae-avellana Riley (det. A. C. Baker), infested by the 

 larvae of an Anthonomus. These larvae have since been bred 

 out and proved to be Anthonomus hicoriae Pierce, which was col- 

 lected originally on hickory at Texarkana, Texas. It has not 

 previously been found breeding. It is interesting to note that 

 several other species in the group with this weevil also breed in 

 Phylloxera. 



In discussing this paper Mr. Schwarz offered some brief re- 

 marks on phytophagous Coleoptera the imagoes of which, especially 

 in the earlier part of the warmer season, feed on the foliage of 



