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Prof. Riley, in the "American Entomologist," vol. iii, p. 270, 

 states that the larvae of wildii and alternation no doubt feed in 

 the roots of the plant. I admit, not without a doubt, however, 

 that this may be true as far as the larvae of wildii is concerned, 

 but it will not apply to the closely allied species alternation, as 

 my observations go to show. 



Miss Mary E. Murtfeldt, in "Insect Life," vol. v, p. 155, 

 states that the larvae of wildii bore the older wood of the tree, 

 and I am very much inclined to accept this statement as being 

 correct, for if we examine the trunks of the trees in an old hedge 

 we will often find them to contain many large borings, such as 

 we would suppose the larvae of wildii would make. Messrs. 

 Webster and Mally, of Ohio, have reared Cyllene pictus from the 

 Osage Orange (see Bulletin No. 9, New Series. U. S. Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture), but as yet this beetle has not been found 

 on the Osage Orange around Philadelphia; furthermore, in my 

 experience, Cyllene pictus only attacks the dead or dying trees. 

 I therefore think it more than likely that the large borings ob- 

 served in the trunks of live Osage Orange trees are made by the 

 larvae of Dorcaschema wildii. 



The specimens figured in the plate were cut from the sections 

 mentioned in the fore part of this article. 



INTERESTING COLLECTING NEAR HOME. 



By R. R. Rowley, Louisiana, Mo. 



It is gratifying, this hot weather, to have one's collecting 

 ground not far from the front door. There is a little enclosure 

 of two or three acres just across the street and when I tire of 

 other employment I scale the fence and wade into the weedy 

 jungle. There are patches of Croton capitation here and there, 

 and I come away laden with eggs, larvae and pupae of Anaa 

 andria. In the past three weeks I have collected over two 

 hundred well-grown larvae of this butterfly. True, some have 

 died, but I have already ten imagoes, besides the fifty-five pupae 

 hanging in my boxes and nearly a hundred larvae still feeding. 

 This is a most hardy insect, well protected from its enemies in all 

 its stages by mimicry, and rarely affected by parasites. Some 

 grown "worms," when ready to suspend, turn black and hang, 



