170 Notes 071 Insectivorous Coleoptera. 



of the Illinois Industrial University. He reported them 

 to be "spores of Spha?ronemei, probably Phoma" — a fun- 

 gus which forms small, black specks on dead wood, stems 

 of weeds, etc. A third specimen from the same source 

 had eaten some undetermined, insect and about equal quan- 

 tities of three elements; viz., the above spores of Phoma, 

 pollen and the anthers of grass (doubtless blue-grass upon 

 which the insect was taken). A few clavate bodies were 

 also noticed, consisting of a single row of nucleated cells, — 

 evidently the acrospores of some fungus. A September 

 specimen was taken at Normal. Its crop was distended 

 with an oily liquid, but contained no other visible food 

 except a few acrospores of a fungus. This specimen had 

 evidently been feeding upon animal food of some sort. 



Galathus gregarius. — Three individuals of this species 

 were examined, all caught on blue-grass in blossom, by 

 Mr. Webster, of Waterman, and Mr. McBride, of Freeland. 

 The crop and oesophagus of the first were distended with a 

 brown mass which proved to be wholly made up of the 

 pollen and fragments of the anthers of grass. A second 

 specimen contained a smaller amount of pollen and an- 

 thers of blue-grass, with minute fragments of a black and 

 sparsely hairy insect. An antenna proved that it was a 

 larva — probably a young caterpillar. The third contained 

 traces of a similar larva and the fragments of the cornea 

 of a perfect insect — evidently a remnant of some former 

 repast. 



Anisodactylus haltimore^isis. — The single specimen of 

 this species had not recently taken food. The stomach 

 was empty ; but in the intestine was a large amount of 

 chyme which possibly indicated liquid animal food. A 

 specimen of A. rusticus gave only similar negative results. 



Ariisodactylus sericeus. — A specimen taken in June 

 showed fragments of anthers and pollen of grass, with 

 other vegetable tissues, apparently derived from the seeds 

 of grass. A small insect had also been eaten, as shown by 

 particles much too few and minute for determination. A 

 second specimen had taken precisely similar food — the in- 

 sect here being represented by a few facets of the cornea. 



Amara angustata. — One of this species, likewise taken 



