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cephalus," where the swarming of this reduviid is recorded 

 both on the island of Ceylon and in the Argentine Republic. 



Mr. Schwarz stated that many years ago he caught a num- 

 ber of specimens of Henico cephalus near Washington. These 

 were flying at or above the tips of some tall grasses at sunset. 

 The type specimens of H. culicis Uhler were found by him 

 among the debris under the reeds along the shore of Utah 

 Lake, Utah. Under the same conditions these insects were 

 found by Mr. Barber and himself along the warm creek at 

 Hot Springs, Yavapai County, Ariz. 



Mr. Barber said that he found either the same or another 

 species under the bark of a dead oak in Tennessee and also, 

 under the same conditions, in Dorchester County, Maryland. 

 In both cases there were a pair of adults and a number of 

 various-sized larvae. 



Mr. Hooker presented two short notes, as follows: 



INJURY TO OAK FORESTS IN TEXAS BY HETEROCAMPA 



MANTEO DOUBLEDAY. 



[Lepidoptera, Notodontidae.] 

 By W. A. HOOKER. 



In September and October, 1904, while in Lamar County, 

 which borders upon the Red River in Texas, I observed a 

 widespread injury to the oaks which make up a great part 

 of the forest in this section. This injury was found to be 

 due to what Professor Comstock has called the variable oak- 

 leaf caterpillar, Heterocampa manteo. The injury was espe- 

 cially noticeable upon the post oaks, which appeared as if a 

 fire had swept through them. It extended from Paris to the 

 Red River some 15 miles to the North, and newspaper reports 

 showed it to extend into Red River County to the East. 



I have waited, hoping to visit that locality again, but as I 

 have not had the opportunity, I wish to place this observa- 

 tion on record. In looking up the literature upon this insect 

 I find that Professor Comstock in his report as Entomologist 

 of the Department of Agriculture for 1880, page 259, states 

 that during the season of 1880 a great amount of damage was 

 done in at least two counties of Arkansas (Garland and Saline) 



