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Pnigodes setosus Lee. — November, emerged in field-cage over oat plants 



and at random. 

 Anthonomus grandis Boh. — October, common on green cotton balls. 



seneolus Dietz. — July, in wheat stubble field, 

 Conotrachelus nenuphar Hbst. — June and July, larvae commonly infesting 

 peaches. 



seniculus Lee. — July and August, at night, taken at trap 

 light. 



Cylindrocopturus longulus Lee, det. Pierce. — June, in oat field. 



Ceutorhynchus Zimmermanni Gyll. — May. 



Baris transversa Say. — July, in oat field and at random. 



Trichobaris Texana Lee. — August, 



Balaninus Vietoriensis Chttn. — October, in cotton field ; November. 



Family CALANDRiDy^i. 

 Rhodob?enus tredecimpunctatus 111. — August. 

 Sphenophorus sp. — Specimen lost, but probably tnaidis Chttn., which has 



since been taken in the corresponding month. July. 

 Cala-idra oryzae L. — July, in seed wheat. 

 Cossonus corticola Say. — June. 



Family Ipid^. (ScoLYTiDiE.) 

 Platypus compositus Say. — November. 



Family Anthribid^. 

 Brachytarsus alternatus Say. — June, in oat field. 



Dr. Philip P. Calvert, Assistant Professor of Zoology in the Univer- 

 sity of Pennsylvania, and Mrs. Calvert, arrived in Philadelphia on May 

 17, from Costa Rica, after a year's residence in that country. They were 

 in Cartago, their headquarters, at the time of the earthquake of May 4, 

 which totally destroyed that town, but escaped unhurt. A brick partition 

 wall fell into the room in which they were sitting, burying and destroying 

 the living insect larvae which were in rearing, some of the experiments 

 having run for eleven months. On the following day they were able to 

 recover from the ruins nearly all their other collections, notes, photographs, 

 instruments, etc., and later to bring them home in safety. Many data on 

 the seasonal distribution, larval forms and habits of Costa Rican Odonata 

 (the principal objects of their investigations) have been secured. — Science. 



