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nepresents the moth as beginning to fly about our apartments in 

 Ma.y {Guide to the Study of Insects, 1866, p. 34G). Dr. Harris 

 states that they lay their eggs in May or June, and recommends 

 early June as the time in which the prudent housekeeper should 

 beat up their quarters and put them to flight or destroy their eggs 

 and young {Insects Injurious to Vegetation, 1862, pp. 493, 494). 



Probably the nearly uniform day and night temperature of my 

 office during the winter, maintained bj^ the steam-heating arrange- 

 ments of the Capitol, serve to shorten the period of pupation, when 

 compared with its usual period in our dwellings. 



Mallota sj). — Professor L. M. Uuderwood, of Syracuse Univer- 

 sity, sends Jan. 19th, larvge (3), puparium, and empty puparia (3), 

 taken in Western New York, from between the boards forming 

 the walls of an out-house. They may have been of Mallota tarda, 

 to which they bore a resemblance, but they could not be positively 

 identified, for unfortunately the examples sent had been put in 

 alcohol, and none had been retained alive for rearing. 



Anthrenus scrophulari.e {Linn.). — The carpet-beetle occurred 

 abundantly on flowers of Spiraea, in Washington Park, Albany, on 

 June 2d. Anthrenus varius was associated with it in about equal 

 numbers. 



June 8th, numbers were taken by Mr. "William Beuttenmuller, 

 of New York city, on flowers of parsnip. 



July 21st, twenty-five of the larvae, of different sizes, were re- 

 ceived from a residence in Schoharie, N. Y., where they abound. 



A.ug. 9th, Prof. H. M. Seely, of Middlebury College, Middlebury, 

 Vt., sends what he believes to be the carpet-beetle, as it was found 

 in large numbers associated with the A. scrophxdarim larvse when 

 searching for the latter in July. It proved, however, to be Otio- 

 rhynchus ligneus, which appears of late to have domesticated itself 

 within many dwellings. 



Nov. 2d, half-grown larvs© and an imago taken in my house, the 

 latter from a window curtain. 



Thanasimus DUBius {Fahv.). — Numbers of this insect — one of 

 the Cleridm — were observed upon cut pine timber, at Schoharie, 

 May 13th, dropping quickly to the ground when approached. 

 They had probably been feeding on some of the wood-eating larvse 

 under the bark. A species nearly allied to this, captured by me 

 upon the summit of Mt. Marcy, at an elevation of 5,300 feet, on 

 August 8th, 1877, has recently been identified by Mr. E. M. Schwarz, 

 as QUrus fanalis Lee. 



Macrodactylus subspinosus {Fair.). — Under date of July 4th, 

 Mr. H. J. Foster, of East Palmyra, N. Y., wrote that the rose-bug 

 had made his cherry-trees leafless the preceding year, and that this 

 year they were eating the leaves of the wild-grape, and the young 

 apples where they occur in clusters, 



