ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



y PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION, 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



Vol. VIII. 



JANUARY, 1897. 



No. I. 



CONTENTS 



Quaintance — On the life'history of Bra- 

 chytarsus alternatus 1 



Calvert — Notes on European entomo- 

 logical collections 4 



Castle and Laurent — April collecting in 

 Georgia and Florida 7 



Editorial 10 



Economic Entomology 11 



Notes and News 12 



Entomological Literature 15 



Doings of Societies 19 



Entomological Section 22 



Ashmead — Nitelopterus, a new Larrid 



genus 22 



Cockerell— Some species of Perdita 



from Nebraska 23 



ON THE LIFE-HISTORY OF BRACHYTARSUS ALTERNATUS. 



By A. L. Quaintance, Lake City, Fla. 



During a study of insects injurious to stored grain carried on 

 the present year, this species of Anthribid was found to be quite 

 abundant in certain localities in the State, feeding both in the 

 larval and adult stages on stored corn-cow-peas and English peas. 



As the early stages and food habits of this beetle have not pre- 

 viously been recorded, and as larvae of the genus Brachy tarsus 

 have been supposed to be parasitic on scale insects, it may be of 

 interest to note some observations that have been made on this 

 insect. 



DESCRIPTION. 



-^^.^•y-— Length .583 mm.; width .366 mm.; shape elliptical; 

 color clear y.ellowish white : smooth, showing no markings; 

 slightly adhesive. 



Full-grown larva. — Length 5 mm.; width at third segment 

 2 mm.; width of head at base i mm.; width of mouth .2 mm. 

 Body very thick and stout, subcylindricai, being flattened some- 

 what on ventral surface; tapering, slightly cephalad and caudad; 

 caudal end rather bluntly rounded. 



