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

 branches o( Rhus metopium and also other trees, but I never was able to 

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

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

 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 Tetraprio- 

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

 hnnA ihe 'wnsigo oi A??iphiceriis punclipeuftis 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 Smilax roots there were always 

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

 fested with the Tetrap7-iocera larvae. 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. " 



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Ix Vol. 48 of the Stettiner Entomologische Zeitung, 1887, 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. The specimens experimented with were bright Phanceus 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 they 

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

 CoUodium 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 Pamassius, and incidentally mentions some good things : Elwes 

 quotes a translation from Sitbold, not having seen the original: "not 

 seldom found on recently dead horses in the lower mountam valleys of 

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

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

 sind von dem jiingst verstorbenen Rossi in den niederen Gebirgsthiilern 

 Oesterreichs und Ungarns nicht selten angetroffen worden." The intel- 

 ligent translater read " Rosse " (horses) instead of Rossi, hence the 

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

 Rossi &c. , &c. 



A German translator of \A'aliace'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 Caiocala, ran across 

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

 translation of Locust that he could get anywhere in Lexicons grasshopper 

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

 enlightened ! J. B. S.mith. 



