158 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [May, 



Mr. Chas. Liebeck expects to make a tiying trip to the South this 

 month, and hopes to have a few days in the mountains of east Tennessee, 

 looking for Cychrus. 



The Sandwich Islands have the following tradition in regard to the 

 introduction of Fleas into their country : Many years ago a woman from 

 Waimea went out to a ship to see her lover, and as she was about to return, 

 he gave her a bottle, saying that there was very little valuable property 

 [ivaiwai) contained in it, but that she must not open it, on any account, 

 until she reached the shore. As soon as she gained the beach, she eagerly 

 uncorked the bottle to examine her treasure, but nothing was to be dis- 

 covered. — the fleas hopped out, and "they have gone on hopping and biting 

 ever smce."— yi?«>^z«'5 Voy. U. S. Explor. Exped., p. 385. 



In going through my field book, I find a little incident recorded about 

 the tenacity of life, of a Pap. iurnus \arva which may be of interest to 

 some Lepidopterists. 



Sometime in July last, a friend of mine from here visited in Vermont, 

 and knowing my fondness for anything pertaining to natural history, 

 procured a larva, which as he said, was in the act of covering part of the 

 underside of a leaf with a silky substance ; this was on Aug. 1st. Not 

 having a suitable receptacle on hand, he took leaf and larva, arriving at 

 the house, put the larva, — which, in tlie'meantime, had crawled off the leaf — 

 in a little wooden barrel-shaped box and temporarily, as he thought, in his 

 trunk; being that very day called to some place in Connecticut, forgot all 

 about the larva, and returned home on Aug. i8th. In opening his trunk 

 came across the box, which he post haste brought to nie. We found the 

 larva, which proved to be a tumus minus food, still alive, but greatly 

 reduced in size. Tumus is rather scarce around Elkhart, — although in 

 beating the basswood for Sap. vestita and lateralis I have sometimes found 

 the larva. — I was anxious of finding out what the result would be of so 

 long a confinement without food and shut up in an almost air-tight box. 

 Procuring food and comfortable quarters in my vivarium, it nevertheless 

 refused to eat, and died on Aug. 24th. Now, I think under the conditions 

 the larva was kept, it is remarkable that it survived so long. 



P. J. VVeith. 



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