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MISCELLANEOUS NOTES FROM KANSAS. 
Mr. F. F. Crevecceur, Onaga, Kans., an entomologist of consider- 
able experience and a valued correspondent of this office, has reported 
the results of some interesting observations made by him during the 
past season (1900). Some of these are, in brief, as follows: 
Notonecta undulata, one of the common, so-called back-swimmers, 
was observed feeding upon a related species, Anzsops platycnemis, on 
one of our largest species of Corisa, and on the Dytiscid water beetle, 
Coptotomus interrogatus. 
March 19 a species of spider, Yysticus gulosus, was noticed feeding 
on the dung beetle, Aphodius inquietus, under a voard on the ground. 
Crepidodera rufipes, the red-legged flea beetle, a long account of 
which was published some years ago in Volume V of Insect Life 
(pp. 341), was stated to be very abundant in the State of Kansas. It is 
a destructive enemy of young peach, cherry, and other fruit trees. 
May 30 a wasp, Odynerus tigris, was observed bearing a larva and 
flying about a post in a barn looking for a hole in which to deposit it. 
The next day some of the same kind of larvee, as well as pup, were 
found on the willow, Salia amygdaloides, which were reared and 
proved to be Lina scripta, the streaked cottonwood leaf-beetle. 
June 6, Anomea laticlavia, an interesting Chrysomelid, was reared 
from its pupal case found under a log about a month before. This 
case, which was made of dirt, was described as about five-eighths of 
an inch long by half that width, convex laterally, and somewhat con- 
cave longitudinally on the under side, with a fringe along the sides 
and crimped on the under side only, giving the case the appearance of 
being of organic origin instead of being of dirt. 
June 18 Plusia brassicw, the cabbage looper, was reared from larvee 
on cottonwood, which pupated June 9. June 21 the same species 
issued from the larva taken on cottonwood, which pupated June 12. 
It will be noted that the pupal stage in both cases lasted nine days. 
On two occasions during the latter days of June Dasyllis tergissa, 
a large robber fly, was noticed feeding upon Macrobasis unicolor, 
the ash-gray blister-beetle, Onthophagus hecate, » dung-beetle, and 
Euschistus tristigmus, a plant-bug. 
June 10 Atomosia puella was noticed feeding upon Lonchwa rufitar- 
sus, both Diptera. 
June 14 Macrobasis unicolor was observed feeding on the bloom of 
hollyhock. It had ragged three or four flowers on this plant when 
observed. 
While picking strawberries our correspondent happened to touch a 
specimen of the plant-bug Huschistus variolarius, which is often found 
feeding on the fruit of berries, and noticed that a small quantity of 
the fluid which this species exudes when disturbed caused a very pain- 
