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and three sides were hemmed in by steep embankments, up the loose 

 sand of which the larvae could not ascend) and they continued in a 

 straight line until the first track of a railway a dozen or fifteen feet 

 away was reached. They then travelled either east or west along the 

 rail, and it was these numerous larvae crawling over one another along 

 the base of the rail that first attracted my attention to their breeding 

 ground. The explanation of the larvae travelling was obvious. They 

 had completely defoliated every plant on the breeding territory and 

 were now migrating to " fresh fields and pastures new." Undoubtedly 

 the larger proportion of them died as nowhere in the immediate 

 vicinity do I know of other patches of Crotalaria, nor of the pres- 

 ence of any other of their recorded food plants. Some larvae, how- 

 ever, were sufficiently grown to pupate as was evidenced by the fact 

 that over sixty cocoons were collected from beneath the angle of 

 the Frail, most of which had the still unchanged larva within them. 



John A. Grossbeck. 



Two Hemiptera New to New Jersey. — The following two, locally 

 rather rare, Hemiptera have recently been taken in New Jersey 

 and are not recorded in Smith's new " List of the Insects of New 

 Jersey": Acantholoma dcnticiilata Stal, collected by Dr. F. E. Lutz 

 near Hackettstown, N. J. in the Schoolie Mts., May 20th, and Banasa 

 sordida Uhl., taken by ^Ir. W. T. Davis in Cape May Co., N. J., 

 August. — H. G. Barber. 



Vanessa milberti in New York City and Vicinity in 1910. — We 



have no previous record of J'ancssa milberti being as common in 

 and about the city of New York as it was during the fall of 1910. 

 j\lr. W'm. P. Comstock reports one in a back yard at Newark, N. J., 

 on ( )ctober 13, and another near the Grant Avenue crossing of the 

 Eric railroad at Hanison, N. J., on October 24. One was observed 

 on Staten Island by Mr. Oscar Fulda on September 23; one was 

 captured October 10 by Mr. Jacob Doll while it was flying about 

 the grounds of the Brooklyn Museum near Prospect Park, and on 

 October 18 one was seen at Sea Cliff, Long Island, by Mr. Geo. P. 

 Engelhardt. A still more southern record was the capture by the 

 writer on October ig of a milberti near Keyport, N. J., just north 

 of Matewan Creek.— \Vm. T. Davis. 



