Sept-Dec, 1918.] MISCELLANEOUS NoTES. 227 



Hapithus agitator Uhler. — Several specimens of this species were 

 collected at Ocean Beach, Fire Island, Long Island, N. Y., August, 

 1917, by Mr. Henry Thurston. This species is an addition to the 

 known fauna of Long Island and its range has thus been extended 

 northward. A female of this cricket was collected on Staten Island 

 at Tottenville, September 21, 1902. — Wm. T. Davis. 



Papilio marcellus Cramer. — A specimen of this species alighted on 

 my office window in the Grand Central Station Building, 42d street, 

 New York City, on the eighth of last July. — C. H. Sunderland. 



The Honey-dew of Aphids very Attractive to Moths and Roaches. 



— On June 27, 1917, the writer was walking at night along a road 

 near Wading River, Long Island, N. Y., examining the wayside vege- 

 tation with an acetylene lantern, when suddenly a small bush was 

 seen to be aflutter with moths. The bush proved to be a species of 

 Pyrus, the terminal branches of which \vere infested by a species of 

 black or blackish aphid. The excrement of these creatures was very 

 attractive to scores of other insects, probably more so than the usual 

 "sugar" bait used by entomologists. In all 45 moths were taken of 

 24 species, but a number of kinds escaped, and no especial effort was 

 made to collect all of the specimens seen, in fact \t would have been 

 impossible, for they were most wary and quickly left the bush. Geo- 

 metrids and microlepidoptera were present, as well as Noctuids ; also 

 roaches of three species, and numerous caddis flies. By visiting the 

 little bush the next evening and approaching more cautiously, some 

 of the species were collected that got away on the first occasion. 



The insects identified are as follows: Moths; Rhynchagrotis nifi- 

 pectus, Noctua plecta, Mamesfra detracta, M. stibjuncta, M. grandis, 

 M. renig^ra, Heliophila multilinea, Orthodcs creniilata, 0. cynica, 

 Graphiphora oviduca, Ogdoconta cinereola, Eustrotig, carneola, Pro- 

 thymia semipu'purca, Tarachc erastrioides, Pangrapta .decoralis, Pho- 

 bcria 'atomaris, Orthofidonia vcstaliata. Sciagraphia heliothidata, 

 Caherodes confusaria, Sabulodes lorafa and Dcsmia fnneralis. The 

 three roaches are Parcoblatta fnk'cscens, P. I'irginica and P. uJdcr- 

 iaiia. Not only were there many male roaches present, but also a 

 number of females, which in this genus are wingless. — Wm. T. Davis. 



