1897] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 59 



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PsEUDOscoRPioNs ATTACHED TO FLIES. — Apropos to the note in the 

 January' number of the News I will saj- that seemingly precisely the same 

 thing has come to me this Winter, having been found under the wing of 

 a house-fly. — F. M. Webster. 



Mr. J. E. Farnum says the country in Manika Land, S. E. Africa, is so 

 perfectly flat that to obtain any view of one's surroundings it is necessary 

 to climb either a tree or one of the curious ant-hills so common in this 

 country and often as high as fifteen feet. 



Bruchophagus funebris (Howard). — I have been very much inter- 

 ested in Prof. A. D. Hopkins' recent statement (Proc. Assoc. Econ. En- 

 tomologists) that this is a veritable feeder in clover seeds, and not a oara- 

 site of Cecidoinyia, as had been supposed. Prof. E. O. Wootten collected 

 some Hosackia ptiberulu Benth. (det. J. N. Rose) in the Organ Mountains, 

 New Mexico, and breeding in tht; seeds were numbers of this B . funebris . 

 It seemed to me at the time that they fed upon the seeds, but I was not 

 prepared to definitely assert that such was the case. My specimens were 

 identified by Mr. Howard himself. — T. D. A. Cockerell. 



A Christmas-day moth hunt. — In " Papilio" iv, p. 112, the editor, 

 referring to the occurrence of a living and active Hypena baltunoralis at 

 Gray's Ferry, January 25th, the thermometer registering 4° below zero, 

 asks, "Are any of this genus known to hibernate?" Not far from this 

 city (Wilmington, Del.) is a large maple tree slowly dying from the rav- 

 ages of Prionoxystus robinice, an unusual food-plant here. On account 

 of the flowing sap this tree is greatly resorted to Spring, Summer and 

 Autumn by numbers of flies, bees, hornets, butterflies — chiefly Graptas 

 and P. aialanta—ci.nd at night by various moths. One warm day late in 

 November I commenced to strip the bark from a large limb of this tree 

 which had broken and fallen till its tip touched the ground. Immediately 

 a number of moths flew out from under the bark as I loosened it and 

 sought resting-places high up in the tree. They were so active that I 



