372 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Oct., 



The motorman, John Sirch, stopped his car until he and his conduc- 

 tor, George Sands, and the passengers could rid themselves of vhe 

 invaders. 



Friday night is the busiest time of the week for the Kensington 

 merchants, and it is said that the enforced discontinuance of business 

 for an hour or more last night means the loss of several thousands 

 of dollars to the business men. , 



The great army of moths eventually destroyed itself by flying 

 against the street lights and store windows and practically carpeted 

 the entire section. Philadelphia Public Ledger, July 10, 1911. 



[Some of the moths were observed also at the Academy of Natural 

 Sciences and were identified by Dr. Henry Skinner as Tortrix funii- 

 ferana Clemens.] 



A HEMIPTEROUS FISHERMAN. The habits of the Belostomidae are 

 known in a general way, but specific examples seem to be scarce in 

 literature. Mr. J. R. Bueno (Journal of New York Entomological 

 Society, XVIII, 143) cities Uhler (Standard, now Riverside, Natural 

 History, II, 256), Howard (Insect Book, 278), and others (Proceed- 

 ings Washington Entomological Society, III, 87) to the effect that 

 the larger species of the family feed upon small aquatic animals, even 

 fish, and that they may become quite harmful if abundant where young 

 fish are reared by artificial methods. 



On September 3d, 1910, the following letter, with accompanying 

 specimens, was received at the Experiment Station and referred 

 to me. 



Lyme, Conn., Sept. 2, 1910. 

 Agricultural Expt. Station. 



Gentlemen : 



I am sending you under separate cover a bug for identification. 

 While watering my cattle at a small stream, my attention was 

 drawn to a small fish flopping in the water near the shore. Think- 

 ing it was caught in the grass, I poked it into the stream, when I 

 saw that it was caught by a bug. 



The bug had its three pairs of legs around the fish so tightly 

 that the fish was creased by the legs. The bug had its "beak" stuck 

 into the seam under the fish's under jaw (gills), and seemed to be 

 sucking the life out of it. 



I took bug and fish to my home and showed them to my family, 

 and it was not until a pin was about to be thrust through them 

 that the bug released the fish, which by that time was dead. 



I am greatly interested, as I never before heard of a bug prey- 

 ing upon small fish. 



Respectfully, 



CHAS. H. DAVISON. 



