420 THfi CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



55. Glyphina, Koch, 1856, PHAiizen'ausc, 259, t. betulce (Kalt.), 



Koch. (in). 



56. Cerataphis, Lichtenstein, 1882, Bull. France (6), II, p. XVI, t. latanice 



(Boisd ), Licht. 

 = ||Boisdavalia, Signoret, 1S68, Ann. France (4), Vni,4oo, i. latanice 



(Boisd.), Sii;n , [nom. nudum]. 

 = Ceratovacuna, Zehntner, 1897, Archief Java Suikerindustrie, V, No. 



10, p.?, t. hinigera, Zehntner (n). 

 = Ceratophis (1) Hempel, 1902, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (7), IX, 400. 



(To be continued). 



NITIDULA BIPUSTULATA IN A NEW ROLF:. 



BY G. H. FRENCH, CARRONDALE, ILL. 



One day last summer I received a letter from a physician in a town 

 near Carbondale, stajting that one of his patients had voided some live 

 beetles, and asking me if I cared to see them. Assuring him that I did, 

 he sent me several specimens of the species above mentioned. Not 

 having this species in our collection, one of them was sent to Dr. F. M. 

 Webster, Dept. of Agriculture, Washington, who identified it for me, but 

 doubted its being an intestinal parasite. 



Briefly stated, the history of the case is as follows : The man came to 

 the doctor several days before his writing to me, stating that he had found 

 the insects in his excreta. The doctor told him they must have come from 

 the ground on which he had voided the excreta ; and he further advised 

 him to use a clean chamber next time. The next day the man came back 

 to the doctor with a lot of the beetles, stating that he had done as directed, 

 and that he passed as many as a tablespoonful of the beetles. 



On talking with the doctor a few days ago, I find that the man has 



been voiding these beetles for some time, and that six years ago his son 

 passed quantities of the same beetles. Ihe son has since died of typhoid 

 fever. The boy told his father about his passing them, and this led the 

 latter to notice his own excreta. The beetles were voided alive, but soon 

 died after crawling a little way from the excreta. 



This is the first instance I have known, eitiier from personal observa- 

 tion or from the literature, of adult insects being voided from the enteric 

 canal of either a man or a related mammal. 



(m) Kholodkovsky placeii this witli 54. 



(n) Spelt Ceratovacunna both in ZooL Record and Bericlit der Entom., both 

 of which jfive incorrect reference. 



Mailed December 9th, 1905. 



