1911] Champlain — Coleopiera from Connecticut 173 



from under gypsy moth bands at Wallingford by Mr. Caffrey and 

 his assistants; this idea might be employed very successfully as 

 a means of collecting tree-infesting insects. 



Oberea ocidaia Linn. This is a European species collected at 

 New Haven, July 9, by Mr. Walden; one specimen being taken 

 near the Experiment Station. It is recorded as living in willow. 



Pytho niger Kirby and 'planus 01i^^ Windsor, January 2, 1907. 

 Taken from cells under bark of dead and dying white pine — A. F. 

 Hawes. 



Rhipiphorus limhatus Fabr. and flavipennis Lee. Common in 

 flowers near the Station. 



Tricrania sanguinipennis Say. Lyme, April 3, on plowed 

 ground in which a species of bee had made numerous burrows. 



Homoriis undulatus Uhler. New Haven. Common Disfig- 

 ures the leaves of lily-of -the- valley on the Station grounds. (See 

 Pifth Rept. State Ent. Conn., p. 259, Plate VI.) 



Otiorhynchus sulcatus Fabr. and 0. ovatus Linn. V^ery common in 

 Connecticut, and occur in numbers at arc lights 



Barypithes pellucidalis Boh. New Haven, May. Common at 

 arc lights. 



Stephanocleonus plumheus Lee. Prospect, August 15 — W. E. 

 Britton. New Haven, May 23, July 13— B. H. Walden. Unusual 

 in this section. 



Phytonomus meles Fabr. This imported species discovered by 

 Dr. E. G. Titus is very common in the vicinity of New Haven. 

 During May, I found that it greatly outnumbered P. punctatus 

 Fabr. and nigrirosiris Fabr. Taken also in Meriden, May 29, by 

 W. E. Britton. 



Notes on a Sarcophagid Found in a Turtle. 



From rather a large number of native turtles collected in the 

 vicinity of New Haven, Conn., for dissecting purposes at the Shef- 

 field Scientific School of Yale University, one was found to be 

 infested in the axilla with maggots of a Sarcophagid. 



The maggots, although nearly full grown, were only noticeable 

 after close observation as they were well concealed within a black- 

 ened, elevated, horny funnel about 1 cm. in diameter and nearly 

 1 cm. in depth. The extreme edge of the funnel was composed of 



