Vol. 1, ]Vo. 8.] INSECT LIFE. [February, 1889. 



SPECIAL NOTES. 



Mr. T. D. A. Cockerell, of West Cliff, Custer County, Colo., reiuinds 

 us, after reading the uote ou the subject of the food habits of the Cal- 

 audridaB in No. G (page 198), that he had sent us a larva found in the base 

 of Cereus viridiflorus which we determined as probablj^ the larva of Cac- 

 tophagus validus. It will be remembered that the statement in Insect 

 Life was to the effect that this beetle had been found exclusively under 

 decaying Opuntia leaves. We did not insert this instance in our list of 

 the food habits of this beetle for the reason that the determination from 

 the larva alone might have been incorrect. 



Important to Coieopterists.— The edition of the "Classification of the 

 Coleoptera of North America," by J. L. Le Conte and Geo. H. Horn, 

 published in 1883 by the Smithsonian Institution, was so small that it 

 was exhausted almost as soon as issued. The work is indispensable 

 to every student of North American Coleoptera, and in demand from 

 Coieopterists the world over. We are glad, therefore, to learn that a 

 new reprint from the original stereotype plates, undertaken by Dr. 

 Horn, has just been completed. Copies may be obtained for $2.50 each 

 (which includes postage) by addressing the following parties in Phila 

 delphia. Pa: Dr. George H. Horn, 874 North Fourth Street; Mr. E. T. 

 Cresson, Post-oflBce Box 1577 ; and Dr. A. E. Foote, 1223 Belmont Ave- 

 nue. 



In this number we resume the publication of the much-needed re- 

 vision of Chambers' Index by Lord Walsingham, whose interest in the 

 Microlepidopterous fauna of North America is a matter of congratula- 

 tion to all working entomologists on this side of the Atlantic. 



The second Shipment of Icerya Parasites. — The December Steamer from 

 Australia brought over the second lot of Australian parasites of the 

 Cottony Cushion-gcale. Mr. Koebele had informed us by letter that 

 he had forwarded in this lot at least 12,000 healthy living parasites, 



