— g6 — 



rare, the latter in great abundance, boring into the living trunks and 

 branches o{ Rhus meiophan and also other trees, but I never was able to 

 find the larva; of either species in the trees so attacked. Finally, one day 

 my attention was attracted by numerous dead roots of a species of Smilax 

 which protruded from the ground in a newly cleared and burned tract 

 within the hammock. These half-burned roots proved on examination 

 to be inhabited and honeycombed by numerous specimens of Teiraprio- 

 cera longicornis, larvae and imagos, and after protracted research 1 also 

 ioy\xvdi\)cLQ.\\xi2i^^oo[A7nphiceriispimctipennis and what no doubt is the 

 larva of this species. Investigation on places not recently affected by fire 

 revealed the fact that among the living Sniilax roots there were always 

 some dead ones to be found in the ground and these were usually in- 

 fested with the Tetrapriocera larvne. The half-roasted roots, which are 

 as hard as stone, had, however, evidently a greater attraction to these 

 Bostrychid beetles than those not affected by fire. " 



In Vol. 48 of the Stettiner Entomologische Zeitung, 18S7, p. 315, 

 is an interesting account of how very dirty, non-pubescent beetles mav 

 be entirely cleaned, when ordinary washing will not produce the desired 

 result, 'rhe specimens experimented with were bright PhancEiis species. 

 They were carefully washed in soap and water, thoroughly rinsed, the 

 moisture removed as far as possible with blotting paper, and were trans- 

 ferred for several days in sulphuric ether. After removal from this thev 

 were again tried with blotting paper and the dirty spots painted with 

 Collodium so as to form a rather thick film. When firmly set, this film can 

 be easily loosened at one edge and with a fine forceps removed entirely — 

 and with it also all particles of dirt. 



In the same Journal Mr. Moeschler reviews Elwes' paper on the 

 genus Pamassms, and incidentally mentions some good things : Elwes 

 cjuotes a translation h'om Sicbold, not having seen the original: "not 

 sei(l(im found on recently dead horses in the lower mountam vallevs of 

 Austria and Hungary! ! !" referring thereby to the larva of Pamassms 

 T7incinosvnc. Moeschler has hunted out the original which reads " sie 

 sind von dem jiingst verstorbenen Rossi in den niederen Gebirgsthalern 

 Oesterreichs und Ungarns nicht selten angetroft'en worden." The intel- 

 ligent translator read "Rossc" (horses) instead of Rossi, hence the 

 blunder. It should read — not seldom found by the recently deceased 

 Rossi &c. , &c. 



A German translator of Wallace's travels managed a sentence so as 

 to record the capture of "a large number of Butterflies, many of which 

 were Lepidoptera. " 



Moeschler himself, reading Hulst's paper on Ca/oca/a, ran across 

 the statement that the larva of C. Dwiiiia feeds on Locusts. Now the only 

 translation of Locust that he could get anywhere in Lexicons grasshopper 

 (Heuschrecke), and it was not until he applied to Zeller that he was 

 enlightened ! J. B. Smith. 



