June, 19 1 8.] MISCELLANEOUS NoTES. Ill 



another one appeared, and then another, each repeating above the 

 ant hill the circling flight performed by the one first noted, finally 

 dropping on to its sloping sides and undergoing a like capture. In a 

 few minutes I had deprived the ants of this hill of seven specimens, 

 and there were several other hills in the immediate neighborhood 

 which were receiving their quota and supplying the cyanide bottles 

 of my companions, Messrs. Wm. T. Davis and Ernest Shoemaker. 

 The conclusion seems irresistible that the beetles in this instance 

 deliberately sought the nest of the ants, with the purpose, presum- 

 ably, of enjoying the association for which the genus is famed. 



The species taken thus were C. variolosus, Kirby, C. canaliculatus 

 Kirby, and C. castanccr Knoch, the latter predominating in numbers. 

 — Lewis B. Woodruff. 



The Moth Anacampsis innocuella at Cold Spring, Long Island, 



N. Y. — On June 21, 1917. twenty-nine curled leaves, each one con- 

 taining a larva or pupa, were found under a single tree of Populus 

 grandidcntata at Cold Spring, Long Island. The larva when ready 

 to pupate had apparently severed the leaf from the tree by cutting 

 the petiole quite close to the blade, thus causing the leaf and itself 

 to fall to the ground. The petiole was usually cut obliquely and 

 about three millimeters from the blade. 



]Mr. Frank E. Watson has kindly compared the moths which 

 emerged from these curled leaves in early July with allied species in 

 the collection of the American ]\luseum of Natural History and 

 with the description, and identifies the insect as Anacampsis innocuella 

 Zeller, of the family Gelechiidae. The species is reported in Dyar's 

 List of Lepidoptera, 1902, from Colorado and Texas, and in the 

 Proceedings of the U. S. Nat. Museum, Vol. XXV, p. 406, the same 

 author states : " The larvx occurred as leaf rollers on the broad- 

 leaved Cottonwood (Populus frcniontii ivislezeni) at Denver. The 

 leaf is neatly rolled to several turns, forming a remote spiral, held 

 with cross bands of silk throughout. The end is open, and the larva 

 can be seen in the center. Sometimes several leaves are involved." 



In the Proceedings of the U. S. Nat. Museum, Vol. XXV, pp. 767- 

 938, 1903, Mr. August Busck gives a revision of the American moths 

 of the family Gelechiidae, and says of A. innoctiella that it closely 

 resembles the European A. populella, and continues: "In the National 



