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NEW FOOD PLANT OF RIIODOB^NUS l.J-PUNCTATUS. 



TIlis insect, which we luentioued in our Third Missouri Keport as bur 

 rowing into the stalks of thecommouGockle-burr (X«/<^/i/itm stru murium), 

 and in our general index to the Missouri rei)orts as ha\'ing l)een reared 

 from Helianthus in Texas, and afterward noted in the tirst volume of 

 Insect Life as infesting the stems of various weeds, including Ambro- 

 sia and the Thistle, has been found by Mr. C. M. Weed to breed in the 

 stems of the Cupweed, Silphiunt perfoliatum. Mr. Weed published this 

 note in the American Naturalist for December, 1890, and although this 

 notice is late, the matter is of too much interest to be overlooked. 



LIVING LARV^ IN THE EAR. 



Popular Science News for September 9, 1891, quotes from an otological 

 journal to the effect that a case has recently been recorded in which a 

 farmer removed a fly which had crawled into his ear and two days 

 later was seized with an intense pain, accomi)anied by bleeding. Two 

 days later he sought medical advice, and on syringing 15 living larvae 

 were removed. The meatus was found to be much reddened, swollen, 

 and bleeding, but the drum was intact. The insect was probably the 

 Screw Worm, Lucilia macellaria. 



BAD WORK BY YELLOW JACKETS. 



An Associated Press dispatch from Indianapolis, Ind., dated Septem- 

 ber 25, states that Mr. Kiley Smart, a prominent young man of Mon- 

 roe Townshij), of that State, had just died from the effects of being stung 

 in forty-two different j)laces by Yellow Jackets. On the same day the 

 Washington ijapers contained an account of a serious accident to Prot. 

 A. K. Spence, dean of the faculty of Fiske University, and his wife, 

 from a Yellow Jacket stinging their horse as they were driving in the 

 suburbs of this city. The frightened animal plunged over a bridge and 

 crushed the professor and his wife beneath the vehicle. Their injuries, 

 while very serious, have not as yet resulted fatally. 



DEATH FROM A BEE STING. 



Well-authenticated accounts of death from the sting of the honey 

 bee are sufficiently rare to render any positive instance of interest. 

 The Evening Star, of this city, contained on August 25 a circumstan- 

 tial account of the death of Mr. William H. Danley, a strong man of 

 vigorous constitution, who carried the mail from Tivoli, a village of 

 Pennsylvania, to the Williamsport and jS^orth Branch Railway station, 

 from the sting of an ordinary honey bee upon one of his fingers. The 

 hand at once commenced swelling, and in 10 minutes after being stung 

 the man fell into a comatose condition and died before aid could be 

 summoned, only 15 minutes having elapsed from the time he was stung. 



