THU CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. l83 



corded as feeding on the roots of strawberries, but what they could find 

 in the house puzzled him. 



The Elm-leaf Beetle, Galeriicella xanthotnelaena, has been very 

 destructive in Long Island and in West Chester, many of the noble elms 

 being so entirely stripped that their death is expected. Nothing entirely 

 new has presented itself during the year. 



From Mexico had been received specimens of a seed, probably of a 

 Euphorbia, known as the jumping seeds. The seeds apparently are 

 formed in a pod, three in one inciosure. When placed on a hard surface 

 they begin a series of the most erratic movements, tumbling from side to 

 side, and sometimes making leaps of an inch or more. Inclosed in the 

 seeds is a white, somewhat flattened larva, and the seed itself, a mere 

 shell, is lined with reddish silk. Westwood has raised the larva to maturitv 

 and found an insect very closely allied to Carpocapsa pomonella, which 

 he called C. saltitans. At about the same time Mr. Lucas, in France, 

 also received the insect, and not knowing of Westwood's work, re-named 

 the species. The entire life history of the species is not yet known ; it is 

 supposed that the insect deposits its egg on the young seed, and the larva 

 when very small makes its way into it. No trace of an opening w.as now 

 visible. Westwood and Lucas report the insect as obtained in February, 

 but only a few days ago a specimen was caught. flying in the room. The 

 curious thing is the close resemblance to our C. pomonella. which has no 

 such habits. Referring to Mr. Smith's remarks on tuftings of the feet of 

 Noctuidae, C. saltitans is peculiar in having the tarsi hidden by long tufts 

 of scales. 



Mr. Dimmock says that O. ieucostigma has not been abundant near 

 Boston, and that the spring frosts affected the eastern rather than the 

 western portions of the State. 



Mr. Smith replied that on Cape Cod he had found the larvae so abund- 

 ant that they stripped the trees everywhere, and there had been frost 

 enough to kill a large quantity of vegetation. 



Dr. Horn said it is a remarkable fact that all of the Coleoptera men- 

 tioned by Prof Lintner are imported species, and for the most part they 

 have kept pretty close to the sea shore. It is interesting that they have 

 commenced their journey toward the interior; it was to be expected, 

 however, that eventually they would travel along the lines of their food 

 plant, as did the potato beetle from west to east. At Washington he had 

 noticed the elm trees stripped of their leaves. Another species, Crioceris 



