1899] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 43 



and female are usually submerged. II if male - -ra-ping the female and 

 both clingirg to some aquatic ]tlnn( in which the eggs are being 

 placed- In the ea-e of Cettthemis fasciata in flight the male iM-a.-p.- 

 the female by the head. the leg- ot the latter hangini extruded. 

 Tu copulation the abdoiy.eii of the male i- grasped by all the leg- of 

 the female, or the second and third pairs of legs m i v gr.isp the ab- 

 domen of the female herself. In ovipositing n, ( . UKl ] ( . illl( i female 

 hover and flit about "in couple." the female frequently touching 

 the tip of her abdomen to the water. E 15. AV n.i ,i \ M->N. < 'ar- 

 negie Museum, Pittsburgh. 



iiflithi Linn. A> A FRUIT PKST. I do not remember to 

 have seen a mention of this insert as a fruit pest I recently re- 

 ceived a number of the beetles from Mr- George F. I'.reuiuger, who 

 obtained them at Phoenix, Ariz , and writes corccrning them as 

 follows: " They are the most destructive insect on fruit I have ever 

 seen. They begin with the lir-t pen-lies that ripen ;:nd continue 

 until about the first of October, when they dVippeir I ha ,-e -ecu 

 so many on a peach as to completely hide it. and they go to the 

 ground with much buzzing when the fruit drop> You will notice 

 tbe cutting apparatus on the top of the head with which it dig- 

 up the flesh of the fruit. It also feeds to -ome extent on melons 

 and tomatoes." C. P. GILLETTE. 



Is Ceratomia catalpoz sp read ing northward? In t lie November 

 number of THE NEWS (page 231 ) this southern species is recorded from 

 Delaware County. Pa. In 1893 I received through Prof. Bcekwith. 

 then of Delaware College, two -pecimens of this moth from Sussex 

 County, Del., and in 189J. in a large <|uantity of electric light mn 

 terial taken in this city (Wilmington, Del.), 1 found a single speci 

 men; but this year the larvse have appeared on the catalp-i tier- 

 in great numbers, and the moths v ere not rare at the lights: >< 

 that in this Stale ('i-rltnnl<i cdlnl/f.-' appears to have spread north- 

 ward, and has certainly greatly increa>ed in number-, where it ua- 

 formerly very rare. FRANK M. JONES, Wilmington. Del. 



GRASSI-IOPPKK> r. NKW M I.XK . Tlii- \car IMI-^ i v. e have had 

 qnitea plague of gra hopper- in the Me-ilh ^'aliey. The -pccie- 

 couceraed were all residents. The princi])al otl'ender beinti" M<l<ni<> 

 /////\ (li_t)'ri-i-nlitih'x. with M. ft niiir-i-iiiii-iiiii a tair-cci.nd. M. nfitf/is 

 was common, but seemed to re-trict it-eW almo-t entirely to t he 

 native graes Tlic interesting feature of the attack \\a- that it 

 \\asirt participated \D by three Melanopliiii (I prefer Ilii- term 

 for the tribe to Melauopli). which were very common in the ina 

 mediate vici nit v. Melanoplus herbaceus occui'l'eA in immen-e num- 

 bers on the I'luriicu borealis,^ 7-.'./'o////\ eleyans was equally abundanl 

 on .1 ////)/( .r cnmx,-, ,,.-. while HI-.-/H f<>i'< lli\ riri<Iis wa> i|uite com- 

 mon on JJ/t/c'nr/ti 'or loscoma] heterophylla VAr^ wriyhtii. Kaeh 

 of tlie-r >iicrics is (H>lorcd like its food- pi i nt . and never by an\ 

 chance leave- it for the cult ivaled tield-. 



