June, '08] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 289 



females, every one a black-brown niger ; four black males and 

 fourteen red males. Two of the black males were in sexual 

 contact, and in several instances a red male, sometimes two, 

 were attached to a niger female. On warm sunny days the red 

 males were flying. It was exciting to draw one down by a wave 

 of the net when it would descend on an incline and strike the 

 ground like a pebble. If we simply allowed it to reach an oak 

 most surely a female would be found quite near. 



The season here for niger is October 26th to December i. 

 On this last date I took a female in the act of ovipositing. The 

 egg is pure white, cylindrical, convex at each end, more than 

 twice as long as wide and so minute (one-forty-fifth of an inch 

 in length) that five lengths would not equal the diameter of the 

 egg of S. antaeus.* The eggs are irregularly clustered in a 

 crack of bark or wood or on under side of loose bark of a dead 

 branch or trunk of black-jack oak and are attached by silken 

 or zvebby threads. 



The female imago is a full inch in length, entirely nude of 

 hair, with the nine outer segments of. antennse in short lamin?e 

 increasing to the thickened tip. The male is from 11-16 to 

 13-16 inclusive, in length; pubescent beneath and above espe- 

 cially on face ; thorax and base of elytra, and with the nine 

 antennal laminse of equal length, 5-32 inch. 



MR. E. T. CRESSON, the distinguished Hymenopterist and treasurer 

 of the American Entomological Society, has been in charge of the pub- 

 lications of the Society since 1861, a record of 47 years' unselfish service 

 in the interest of entomology. 



H. J. QUAYLE. assistant professor of Entomology in the University 

 of California, will be located at the Southern California Pathological 

 Laboratory, Whittier, Cal., after July first. 



ON September 3rd, 1907, T took a perfectly fresh specimen of Calli- 

 dryas aqarithc $ , at Beach Haven, New Jersev ; it was found in com- 

 pany with large numbers of cubulc, of which T took twenty-one males 

 and nine females. Ts this not a new record for New Jersev? The 

 specimen was in such perfect condition that it seems impossible that it 

 could have flown up from the South. W. G. FREEPLEY, JR. 



*T estimate that 200 eggs of S. niger would equal in bulk one egg of 

 S. antaetis, but antaeus imacio is very heavy and niger imago very 

 light. The egg of Dynastes tityfus is also small, one-half the diameter 

 of that of antaeus. 



