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William H. Patton calls our attention to the fact that Mr. Glover, in 

 the Annual Report of the Department of Agriculture for 1877, figured 

 upon Plate III (Fig. 43) a Lady-bird parasite which worked the same 

 way, showing a grass leaf with the cocoon under it and the beetle 

 clinging to the cocoon. The parasite itself is figured natural size from 

 the side on the upper side of the leaf. In his text he refers to it in the 

 following words (page 99) : 



A parasitic insect attacks the Rippodamia {Coceinella) mactdata (Fig. 43), the 

 Spotted Lady-bird, iu a very similar manner, and was taken in Maryland. 



NOTES UPON THE LONGEVITY OF THE EARLY STAGES OF EBURIA 

 ftUADRIMACULATA. Say. 



By F. M. Webster. 



On June 28, 1888, Mr. J. N. Latta, of Haw Patch, Ind., sent me a 

 crushed specimen of this beetle, with the statement that it had been 

 found underneath the carpet iu the parlor of Mr. J. R. Copeland, a farmer 

 living near Wawaka, Ind. The carpet, as I afterward learned from the 

 lady of the house, had been taken up and renovated regularly each 

 spring for many years, but nothing of this sort had been noticed until 

 the last time it was removed, when a number of beetles were found 

 underneath, and both the floor and carpet badly eaten. Some weeks 

 later, and after the floor had been thoroughly swept and the carpet had 

 been replaced, another beetle of the same sort had been found crawling 

 on the inside of one of the windows. 



Further correspondence with Mr. Copeland revealed the following 

 facts : The floor was composed of hard maple, and had been used in the 

 building fourteen years before. The lumber had been sawed and had 

 laid in the saw-mill for a considerable time prior to its having been 

 used. The house had been constructed upon the present stone founda- 

 tion, and two feet above the level of the ground. There was no way by 

 which these insects could reach this floor (which by the way is the only 

 one injured in the entire building) other than by way of the windows or 

 by an outside cellar door, about 30 feet away, and leading through a 

 dark alley, this parlor not being situated over the cellar. The room, 

 being the parlor, was not much used and the windows were nearly al- 

 ways kept closed. The floor was not affected more seriously near the 

 edges of the carpet than elsewhere, and the injury did not appear to 

 have been influenced by light or proximity to the cellar door previously 

 mentioned. In short, everything indicates that the eggsorlarvse were 

 in the wood when used, fourteen years before. 



April 10, 1889. 



