Dec, 1912.] Miscellaneous Notes. 2&3 



adults of the larger Coleoptera is infrequenth- noted and is therefore 

 of more than ordinary interest to entomologists. The collection of 

 numerous specimens of adult Coleoptera for the special purpose of 

 rearing parasites might result in securing data heretofore almost 

 unsuspected. — E. P. Felt. 



Neuroterus saltatorius Hy. Edw. — Specimens of this interesting 

 gall, a globose, unilocular swelling less than i mm. in diameter on 

 the under side of white oak leaves, were received under date of July 

 24, 1912, from Mr, R. M. Taylor, instructor in pathology, Michigan 

 Agricultural College, Ann Arbor Mich. Mr. Taylor calls attention 

 to the snapping or jumping habit of the galls, and careful listening 

 enables one to detect a low snapping or crackling, evidently due to 

 the activity of the insect within the gall, this in spite of the fact 

 that the specimens had been in press a week before being forwarded. 

 Mr. Taylor also states that inhabited galls when laid upon the table 

 jump around more or less as a result of larval activities. The 

 species has been reported from New York State, though Mr. Beuten- 

 muller (Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 1910, 28: 125) questions the identity 

 of the eastern gall with the one originally described by Edwards. — 

 E. P. Felt. 



Two-spotted Ladybeetle (Adalia bipunctata Linn.). — This com- 

 mon ladybeetle was unusually abundant last summer, the small, black 

 grubs being so numerous on one Norway maple at Nassau as to make 

 a nuisance of themselves by dropping upon parties beneath. A simi- 

 lar super-abundance was observed in Washington Park, Albany, and 

 also in several localities in the vicinity of New York City. The 

 early part of the season of 1912 was unusually favorable for the 

 development of plant-lice and is probably indirectly responsible for 

 the super-abundance of this small lady-beetle. — E. P. Felt. 



A Migration of Red Admiral Butterflies. — The Red Admiral 

 butterfly was quite common in August, 1912, on parts of Staten 

 Island and Long Island. On September 9, Dr. Frank Overton of 

 Patchogue and I started across Moriches Bay for Fire Island. It was 

 soon noticed that Pyrameis atalanta butterflies were quite common 

 and all flying in a westerly direction. This was not in the direction 

 of the wind. When about half way to the island I commenced to 



