2 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Jan., '14 



At the date they were taken (June 20, 1910,) the beetles 

 were just coming to maturity. Some were in the pupa stage 

 but most were adults, still in the Anthophora cells. 



On the scopa of some of these bees taken in Gove County, 

 were found triungulins, possibly of this species, eight being 

 taken on the leg of one bee. (See PI. I, Fig. 7). They were 

 found associated with this bee also in Greeley, Sheridan, Rush 

 and Logan Counties. 



In Rush County, June 25, 1912, Mr. Isely, one of the En- 

 tomological Survey party, in digging out Anthophora nests, 

 discovered a number of eggs, recently hatched triungulins and 

 an adult female, in the cells of one colony. (See PI. I, 

 Figs, i and 2). 



Some of these triungulins succeed in attaching themselves 

 to bees and are thus often transported to new cells, where the 

 life history may be completed by feeding upon the stores of 

 this bee. The life-history is, no doubt, much the same as that 

 of the related Sitaris humeralis of Europe, which has been 

 studied by Fabre. 



ClCINDELIDAE. 

 Amblychila cylindriformis Say. 



According to the summer's observations of 1910, A. cylindri- 

 formis adults were rare in western Kansas. They were found 

 in three counties : Gove, Wallace and Greeley. In the succeed- 

 ing summer's survey to southwestern Kansas, they occurred in 

 Grant, Morton, Meade and Stanton Counties. 



On June 17, one adult was taken at 5 P. M. under a strip 

 of canvas that lay on the ground by a tree. The beetle attempted 

 to escape into a hole beneath the roots of the tree. No more 

 adults were seen (though search was often made for them), 

 until Wallace County was reached. Here, after a day of fruit- 

 less search in holes of all kinds in the clay banks of the Smoky 

 Hill river, where Amblychila larvae were said to be found, a 

 small clay break near the top of a hill 300 yards from the river 

 yielded the object of the hunt. This locality was visited at 5 

 P. M. and two Amblychila found crawling about over the 

 ground. One was taken near a hole one-half inch in diameter, 

 and the other near an old badger hole. Both tried to escape 



