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taken on a dead (beech?) tree at Monmouth, June 27, 1906. 

 This tree was within a few hundred feet of the tree previously 

 mentioned. One lineella was taken on a pile of slabs at Mon- 

 mouth, June 22, 1910. 



It has been my experience that both species are very wary 

 and hard to capture. I have waited an hour for them to return 

 to the tree from which they had been driven. 



From a paper which Mr. Dodge has very generously placed 

 in my hands, I quote the following notes on T. bidentata: 

 "Most of the captures were made on the trunks of several 

 dead oak trees and they could not be found on other trees nor 

 on oaks with any appearance of life. They are very quick to 

 take wing but rarely go more than a few feet, in fact they 

 seem, reluctant to leave the particular tree on which they are 

 found. 



On the 3Oth of June it was discovered that they were emerg- 

 ing from the fungus-covered stump of a decayed oak. With 

 the help of a hatchet and knife, larvae, pupae, adults, and a 

 probable hymenopterous parasite were uncovered. The larvae 

 appear to pass most of their life in the more solid, central part 

 of the stump, but when they are ready to pupate they work 

 their way into the more decayed outer wood and there exca- 

 vate a pupal chamber which they line with a soft whitish sub- 

 stance. These pupal chambers were frequently found from 

 four to six inches from the surface, but on account of the soft 

 condition of the wood the adults probably had no difficulty in 

 reaching the outer air." 



Mr. C. T. Brues has determined the supposed parasite as 

 Arotes amoemis Cresson. 



The Vote on Priority in Nomenclature. 



Since our last announcement on this subject (ExT. NEWS, Novem- 

 ber, 1912, page 423), a "better late than never" vote "that the law of 

 priority should be strictly applied in all cases," has been received from 

 Mr. J. R. de la Torre Bueno. The total vote taken by the NEWS now 

 stands 99 for strict priority and 197 against. Science, in its issue of 

 December 13, 1912, reported the vote of the Central Branch of the 

 American Society of Zoologists as 13 in favor of strict priority and 35 

 against, followed by an elaborate analysis of the vote. 



