No. 2323. LARVAE OF THE CLERIDAE—BO VJNG AND CHAMPLAIN. 639 



Genus GALERUCLERUS Gahan (GREGYA). 



GALERUCLERUS OCULATUS Say. 



Is a predator on Scolytoids and secondary wood borers in conifers 

 and deciduous trees. Scolytus infesting Pmus rigida; Pogonodieicus 

 infesting Pinus rigida; Liopus and Scolytoids in Rhus; Liofus in 

 Virginia creeper. 



Adults taken at trap lantern in May, also by sweeping low herbage. 



Larvae were observed at Westbury, Long Island, New York, in 

 Pitch Pine stems. Tops attacked by Pityophthorm, bases by Pogo- 

 nocherus. Clerid larvae were found in the Pityoplithorus mines and 

 in the cells of Pogonocli^t-us. The latter were utilized as pupal 

 chambers. The! pupal cell was slightly lined with the frothy exuda- 

 tion and the frass at each end of the cell was cemeted together. 



Recorded from Pennsylvania, New York, West Virginia, District 

 of Columbia, North Carolina. 



Observations by Hopkins, Fiske, Van Horn, Champlain. 



Genus ORTHOPLEURA Spinola. 



ORTHOPLEURA DAMICORNIS Fabricius (not King) . 



Is predaceous on borers in dead and dying deciduous trees. Reared 

 from chestnut and oak infested with Chrysohothrls femorata; oak 

 infested with Neoclytus long'pipes; sassafras infested with Curculi- 

 onids; ash infested with Obrium; hickory, grape, locust, and per- 

 simmon infested with secondary borers; and red oak infested with 

 Tillamorpha geminata. 



Adults are nocturnal ; may be observed at night on infested trees, 

 April to July ; at arc lights, or taken in trap lanterns. Usually hide 

 during daytime in crevices and beneath bark. 



Larvae occur in the galleries and mines of host. In a note by W. 

 F. Fiske, made April 20, 1904, at Tryon, North Carolina, he writes : 

 " Newly hatched Clerid larva found to-day attached to Chrysohothrls 

 femar-ata larva." 



Distribution: Virginia. Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Georgia, 



Maryland. 



Observations by Hopkins, Fiske, Craighead, Kirk, Champlain. 



Genus ENOPLIUM Latreille. 



ENOPLIUM QUADRIPUNCTUM Say. 



Bred from dead black walnut branches by A. D. Hopkins, Wood 

 County, West Virginia, April, 1890. 



PART III. 



BIBLIOGRAPHY.' 



Ancey, F. Note sur I'habitat du Denops albofasciatus. P6t. Nouv. Ent., vol. 1, 

 1869. No. 5, p. 17. 



' We are indebted to Miss Margaret Fagan, Bureau of Entomology, who has assisted us 

 iB compiling theite references. 



