ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



AND 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION, 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



VOL. vin. JANUARY, 1897. No. i. 



CONTEXTS: 



Ouaintance On the life'history of Bra- 

 chytarsus alternatus i 



Notes and News 12 



Entomological Literature 15 



Calvert Notes on European entomo- Doings of Societies 19 



logical collections 4 Entomological Section 22 



Castle and Laurent April collecting in Ashmead Nitelopterus, a new Larrid 



Georgia and Florida 7 yx-nus 



Editorial 10 



Cockerell Some species of Perdita 



Economic Entomology n > from Nebraska 2; 



ON THE LIFE-HISTORY OF BRACHYTARSUS ALTERNATUS. 



By A. L. QUAINTANCE, Lake City, Fla. 



During a study of insects injurious to stored grain carried on 

 the present year, this species of Anthribid was found to be quite 

 abundant in certain localities in the State, feeding both in the 

 larval and adult stages on stored corn-cow-peas and English ] 



As the early stages and food habits of this beetle have not pre- 

 viously been recorded, and as larvae of the genus Brachvtarsns 

 have been supposed to be parasitic on scale insects, it may be of 

 interest to note some observations that have been made on this 

 insect. 



DESCRIPTION. 



- Length .583111111.; width .366 mm.; shape elliptical ; 

 color clear yellowish white; smooth, showing no marking; 

 slightly adhesive. 



Full-grown larva. Length 5 mm.; width at third segment 

 2 mm.; width of head at base i mm.; width of mouth .2 mm. 

 Body very thick and stout, subcylindrical, bein^ flattened some- 

 what on ventral surface; tapering, slightly cephalad and r.uul.td; 

 caudal end rather bluntly rounded. 



