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ties, N. Y. Mr. Van Duzee has collected this species in Florida, but 

 owing to an error, it was omitted from his list of Florida Hemiptera. 

 — H. G. Barber. 



Habits of Cerceris fumipennis Say. — Specimens of this wasp were 

 not uncommon at ^'aphank. Long Island, N. Y., where on Aug. 5, 

 191 1, several colonies of from six to twenty hills, each the home of 

 a wasp, were found. The hills, averaging one inch in height and 

 two and one half inches in diameter, much resembled conical ant 

 hills with a large hole at the top and were made in an area of compact 

 sand from eight inches to two feet apart. The holes, approximating 

 three eighths inch in diameter, begin sometimes immediately at the 

 apex of the hill, and sometimes a little below the apex with a funnel- 

 shaped excavation leading to them. From the top they were found 

 to go directly downward to a little below the level of the ground and 

 then curve to one side. In depth they ranged from four and one half 

 to six inches, and there was no widened cell at the terminus. At the 

 bottom of some of the burrows paralyzed Buprestids were found, but 

 no eggs of the wasps were in any instance attached to them. Occa- 

 sionally also a wasp would be found in the burrow apparently doing 

 nothing. This was in the early morning. Towards the middle of the 

 day the wasps became active and, catching them as they came from 

 their hunting expeditions, were usually found to be carrying a 

 Buprestid. On one occasion also two of the beetles were found 

 lying on the loose earth which composed the hill. The Buprestids 

 collected in this way represented three species determined by Mr. 

 Leng as follows: Diccrca punctnlata, Bnprcstis liiicata, and Chryso- 

 bothris floricola, the first being the most abundant. 



Mr. Wm. T. Davis also met with a hill of what is undoubtedly 

 this same species of wasp at Butterfly Bridge, near Cassville, N. J., 

 Aug. II, with two Dicerca punctnlata lying on its side. The owner 

 of the hill was not about, but a good photograph identifies the latter 

 with those found at Yaphank. — John A. Grosseeck. 



