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not have been due to the variety of the wheat as all of the plots were of the 

 same variety but differently fertilized. On the fertilized plots the peculi- 

 arity was not observable. It would seem then that the Hessfan fly may 

 attack a wheat plant, the growth of which has been influenced by lack of 

 fertility in the soil, and develop there without destroying the plant. While 

 this phenomenon is easily explainable where larva had developed near 

 the base of the leaf and had clearly drawn its food supply from the leaf 

 instead of the stem, in case of those low down, near the root, explanation 

 seems quite impossible on these grounds. 



A CORRECTION. For Harrison G. Dyer, on page 333 present volume, 

 read Harrison G. Dyar. 



W. J. HOLLAND states in his Butterfly Book that Achalaurus cellus 

 (the golden banded skipper), is found in Virginia and southward. I have 

 found them abundant in this part of Maryland (Anne Arundel County.) 

 Alex. A. Girault, Annapolis, Md. 



Eutanypus IN NEW MEXICO. On January 3ist I examined the bands 

 placed around the apple trees on the Experiment Station Farm atMesilla 

 Park, to see what might be hibernating beneath them. The miscellaneous 

 catch included one living Chironomid fly. which I took to be a species of 

 Tanypus. I sent it to Mr. Coquillett, and he tells me that it is his Euta- 

 nypus borcalis, described last year from Bering Island and Mt. Washing- 

 tON, N. H. The occurrence of this boreal fly so far south seems worth 

 recording ; and it is interesting to note that, whereas in the far north it is 

 caught in July and August, with us it appears in midwinter. T. D. A. 



COCKERELL. 



DRAGONFLIES CAUGHT BY TENDRILS OF VINES. "A rather unusual 

 occurrence which created some little interest among local entomologists 

 and others in August of the present year (1899) was tne ensnaring of a 

 large green dragonfly, Anax junius Drury, by a tendril of wild balsam 

 apple, Micrampeles lobata Green. 



" It is conjectured that the insect had settled upon the vine and becoming 

 somewhat benumbed by the cool of evening, was easily entrapped by the 

 outreaching tendril, which had wound itself quite tightly about the insect's 

 body, near the joint of the seventh and eighth abdominal segments. 



' The prisoner remained quite lively for several days, often flying out 

 to the length of its vegetable rope until it finally perished at the hands of 

 a careless observer. 



"After our attention had been drawn to this curiosity, several instances 

 of the entrapping of smaller species of the order Odonata by vine ten- 

 drils were also noted. In these cases the insects had been made pris- 

 oner by the tendrils entwining [them] selves about their limbs." C. E. 

 BRO\VN in Bulletin of the Wisconsin Natural History Society (new series), 

 i, pp. 67-68. Milwaukee, January, 1900 



