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cncc for some days after they arrived. It lived for several 

 inontlis in the jar with the iniinerons speciinens of the largo 

 species, feediiii;,' upon bread, hits of cooked meat, and insect 

 remains, hut was linally attacked by ants ( I'licidolr mcfja- 

 cephala) and snccnmhed. 



I classitied the specimen as ahove, in Brnnner's Nonvean 

 Systeme des Rlattaires, p. -548, and sent it to Professor Law- 

 rence Brnner for vc^dtication, since the original was named 

 from Africa. Professor Brnner writes : 



"I have gone over the sjx'cimen somewhat carefnlly and tind 

 that yon have very evidently ])laced the insect in Ilolorompfia 

 fulva Bnrm. It is either this insect or a very closely related 

 species. There have l)een two other species described that I 

 do not happen to have the description of at present. One of 

 these came from the Sonth Sea islands, the other from Africa. 

 The Sonth Sea island species, I believe, was considerably 

 larger than the present, hence I do not imagine that either of 

 them conld l)e the insect now beint;,' considered.'" 



Notes on Life History of "Dermestes cadaverinus" Fab. 



BY J. F. ILLIXdWORTlI. 



[Presented at November Meeting.] 



Recently (September !), 1915) a collection of the large 

 cockroaches ( Rliyparohia niaderac) which 1 had drying was 

 attacked by these insects. Each morning I found a number 

 of the beetles hidden away under the pinned roaches. Ap- 

 parently the life history of this species has not been pnb- 

 lished, nnless in one of the early European publications Avhicli 

 is not available. 



OCCURKEXCE IN TILE UNITED STATES. 



Dr. Horace J. Jaynt^, in his paj^er ''A Revision of the 

 Dermestidae of the United States" (Proc. Amer. Philosophical 

 Soc. Vol. XX, p. 353, 1883), records this species as occur- 

 ring in Florida. A second reference bv F. H. Chittenden, 



Proc. Haw. Ent. Soc, III, No. 3, September, 1916. 



