180 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [ June, '22 



HYMENOPTERA. 

 Apis mellifica Linn. (Apiclae.) April i. An occasional bee in the 



flowers, but at no time have they been numerous. 

 Agapostemon virescens Fab. (Halictidae.) April 20. Common on 



flowers. 



Bremus pennsylvanicus DeGeer. (Apidae.) April 1. Occasional. 

 Camponotus pennsylvanicus DeGeer. (Formicidae.) April 20. A 



single winged specimen taken on leaf. 



Halictus ligatus Say. (Halictidae.) April 20. Occasional. 

 Iridomyrmex humilis Mayr. (Formicidae.) Common at all times 



on plants along river. 



Megachile brevis Say. (Megachilidae.) Mar. 29. Occasional. 

 Oxystoglossa sp ? (Halictidae.) April 20. Three specimens on 



flowers. 

 Xylocopa micans LeP. (Xylocopidae.) April 1. Occasional. 



No doubt there are many more insect visitors and insect 

 enemies of this plant than are listed in this paper for this local- 

 ity, and the list would increase with the inclusion of more ter- 

 ritory, but the author feels that this list may lead others to 

 watch this plant more carefully. 



In concluding it is well to state that there are other animals 

 who visit or live in the vicinity of this plant, c. g., under the 

 decaying leaves at the base are usually to be found sow-bugs, 

 millipedes, centipedes and snails. The snails are often numer- 

 ous on the plants near the river. 



Notes on the Desmodium Leaf Miner, Pachyschelus 

 laevigatus (Say) (Col. : Buprestidae). 



By HARRY B. WEISS and ERDMAN WEST. New Brunswick. 



New Jersey. 



This member of the Buprestidae which ranges from south- 

 eastern Canada to Florida and west to Iowa is common 

 throughout New Jersey and can be found from the last of 

 May until the first week of July on and in the vicinity of 

 Mciboinia canadcnsis (L.) (Desmodium canadcnse). Blatch- 

 ley records the adults on the foliage of black gum and the 

 flowers of black haw, milkweed, etc., and Chambers records it 

 as mining Dcsmodhim. At Rutherford, New Jersey, we found 

 it mining the leaves of Desmodium pendula. At Fairlawn. 

 New Jersey, adults were numerous on Lcspcdcza capitata, and 



