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elevation of about cue thousand feet. In addition to the above there 

 is the Boonton locaHty mentioned in the third edition of the " List 

 of New Jersey Insects." — Wm. T. Davis. 



Anthrenus fasciatus in Georgia. — Several months ago the Ameri- 

 can ^luscum received from F. J. Manborgue. an upholsterer in Au- 

 gusta, Ga., a number of specimens of AiitJircnus. Dr. Walter Horn 

 kindly identified them as Anthrenus fasciatus Hbst. ( = isabclliniis 

 Kiister). This species is known from Algeria, Spain, Greece, 

 southern Russia, Mesopotamia and East Indies. Mr. Manborgue 

 writes that they were found in the curled hair of furniture built 

 twelve or fifteen years ago and that the hair is believed to have 

 been imi)orted from Russia. — Dr. I'raxk E. Lutz. 



Phymatodes lengi Joutel. — This name appears in Prof. Smith's 

 recent list of New Jersey insects, but no description has as yet been 

 published. Pending a fuller account of the species, it may be stated 

 that Icugi has the ventral surface of the abdomen black instead of 

 red as in a)iia^iius Say, which it closely resembles. It is also a 

 narrower and longer insect. — L. H. Jol^tel. 



Miastor Larvae. — These remarkably interesting larv;e reproduce 

 bv piedogenesis, are available for laboratory work to a marked 

 degree and must be widely distributed as well as allied forms. Very 

 little is known concerning American species, largely because their 

 habitat is one rarely explored by entomologists. They breed mostly 

 in decaying vegetable matter. We have been very successful in find- 

 ing them under partially decayed chestnut bark of stumps, fence 

 rails and sleepers which have been cut one or two years earlier. 

 European species occur under the bark of a variety of trees and 

 even in sugar beet residue. These Dipterous maggots with diverging 

 antenn;e and a fuscous ocular spot in the first body segment, have a 

 flattened, triangular head quite different from the strongly convex, 

 usuallv fuscous head of the Sciara larv;c occurring in a similar 

 environment. They have a length of from 1/20 to I /8 of an inch 

 and may be found in colonies containing a few large, white larv;e 

 with numerous smaller, yellowish individuals, the latter being more 

 common at the present time. Ivarly spring with its abundance of 



