August, '17] SCIENTIFIC NOTES 447 



seventeen to eighteeti days after hatching, making a hfe-cycle of from twenty-five to 

 twenty-seven days. 



The little red biting lice {T richodecles scalaris Nitz) have been much harder to de- 

 termine owing to the difficulty in keeping them confined. From the writer's obser- 

 vations supplemented by the hatching of eggs in an electric incubator it is believed 

 that they hatch from the eggs in from five to six days and mature in two weeks though 

 more work must be done on this species to determine its life-cycle with the accuracy 

 of the two previously mentioned species. This would indicate that a treatment 

 might be repeated with the best results from ten days to two weeks after the first 

 treatment. 



The experimental work on the control measures will appear in the future in a bulle- 

 tin from the Storrs Experiment Station. 



G. H. Lamson, Jr., 



Storrs, Conn. 



An Infestation of Lasius niger L. var. americana with Laboulbenia formicarum 

 Thaxter. On April 7 the writer collected a number of ants of the species Lasius 

 niger L. var. americann. Upon close examination under a binocular microscope fungus 

 growths were observed on the ants. The fungus occurred particularly on the pos- 

 terior part of the head, the dorsal surface of the abdomen, and the femora and tibiiae. 

 Every worker examined from one colony was affected, some having more hyphal out- 

 growths than others. The fungus was identified by Professor R. F. Griggs of Ohio 

 State University as Laboulbenia formicarum Thaxter. The fungus apparently had 

 no injurious effects upon the ants, which were as lively as those not parasitized, and 

 the organism is of interest because of its rareness rather than through its effect upon 

 the host. The writer examined the ants of several adjoining colonies but found the 

 individuals of only one other colony infested. This colony was about fifteen feet 

 from the original colony and may have been connected with the former by means of 

 subterranean galleries. Dr. Thaxter of Harvard University has made an intere.?ting 

 study of this and other Laboulbenia, all of which affect insects exclusively. 



M. R. Smith, 

 Department of Entomology and Zoology, Ohio State University. 



Credit to Whom Credit is Due. On a recent visit to the Bureau of Entomology, 

 through the courtesy of Dr. L. O. Howard the following facts were ascertained: 



The anonymous person mentioned by C. V. Riley in his article on the Ox Bot of the 

 United States 1892, was Mr. F. G. Schaupp of Shovel Mount, Texas, a special field 

 agent of the U. S. Department of Agriculture. Dr. Howard kindly showed me a 

 number of letters from Mr. Schaupp dated March, 1892, proving conclusively that 

 he was the experimentor and that Riley merely recorded his observations. The 

 anonymity of that time was on account of personal matters relating to Mr. Schaupp. 

 The principal reason for my writing this note is on account of a somewhat severe 

 criticism I made of the late Professor Riley in Parasitology, 1915, saying that his 

 records were not his own, and also to give credit to Mr. Schaupp for his excellent and 

 valuable experiments on the Ufe-hiatory of H. lineatum. Seeing that Professor Riley 

 is dead and that Mr. Schaupp was buried at San Antonio on November 10, 1903, 

 there seems to be no further necessity for keeping his name secret. Mr. Schaupp was 

 the first president of the Brooklyn Entomological Society and is well known for his 

 work in Entomology, especially on the Coleoptera. In conclusion it might be men- 

 tioned that Mr. Schaupp was the first discoverer of the eggs of H. lineatum and that 

 he also made some valuable notes on the method of oviposition; therefore I think 

 that in future his name should be mentioned in all articles relating to past experiments 

 on Warble-flies. 



Seymour Hadwen, 

 Agassiz, B. C. 



