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Alma in the Santa Cruz Mountains also writes, "Feeds on quince, prune, alder, 

 madrone and hazel-bush." Last winter I found the cocoons ainindantly in the 

 prune orchards of this valley. The encina oak (Qiiercus lobata), a deciduous tree, is 

 another food-plant of polyphenivs. 



NOCTUIDAE. 



Feralia jocosa Gn. — I took several specimens of this handsome species at Alta, 

 in Placer County, California (elevation about 4000 ft.), in early April. Smith in his 

 Catalogue of the Noctuidae gives New Hampshire, Ncav York and New Jersey as 

 the habitat of feralia. Dyar (Bull. 52, U. S. Nat. Mus.) also gives the Atlantic States. 

 Dr. John B. Smith, to whom I am indebted for the identification of this species, 

 writes me, "It is possible that with more material it may be distinguishable from the 

 eastern species; but except for a somewhat greater size I am unal)le to differentiate 

 it from my series of jocosa." 



NOTES ON THE FEEDING HABITS OF CIMEX LECTULARIUS 



LINNAEUS. 



BY A. AESENE GIRAULT, URBANA, ILL. 



There are so few specific records of the habits of this insect in the literature of 

 entomology, that I do not hesitate to present for publication the following account of 

 a recent personal experience with it. 



On the night of October 29th, 1907, I arrived at Cincinnati, Ohio, near mid- 

 night and obtained a room at what is considered one of the largest and best hotels 

 there. This room was on the second floor, and proved to be a rather small one, 

 about IS feet long and about 12 feet wide. It was elegantly and neatly furnished, 

 with the walls painted a dark gray and ornamented with mural paintings of flowers; 

 the floor was well carpeted. The bed was of iron, painted black, and the whole 

 room, including the rest of the furnitin-e, presented the usual neat, cleanly, and 

 attractive appearance found in hotels of this class. The room was lighted with two 

 16-candle power electric globes on a chandelier suspended from the middle of the 

 ceiling, and about six and a half feet above the floor. Also these lights were just 



