Nov., '05] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 283 



We have specimens of 6". fasciata from Biloxi, Tillman, 

 Raymond, Summit and Agricultural College. Without doubt 

 it is widely distributed in the states. 



Anopheles. — We have taken a fourth species of this genus, 

 undoubtedly niger. 



Melanoconion. — Several species of this genus are common in 

 this State. The larvae and pupae occur abundantly in ponds 

 and ditches when the water contains plenty of Algae. I have 

 taken the larvae in deep water among the surface Algae about 

 an old log. They are remarkable for their long respiratory 

 tubes which are dark on the distal fourths. The anal flaps are 

 long and slender. The antennas are covered (sparsely) with 

 short dark spines and at the offsets, about two-thirds of their 

 length, is a whorl of many much-branched bristles. The ends 

 of the antennae are beset with four stiff, black spines. The 

 antennae are black at the bases and on the distal thirds from 

 the offsets. We have taken indecorabilis , humilis, and atratiis. 



Other Species. — In addition to the foregoing and to those 

 mentioned in Bull. 74 of this Expt. Stat., we have taken C. 

 taniorhynchus , Ocean Springs ; C. signifer, Agricultural Col- 

 lege ; C. triseriahis, Agricultural College ; C. discolor. Agri- 

 cultural College; C. sylvestris. Agricultural College; C.fati- 

 gans. Agricultural College ; Grabhamia sollicitans. Ocean 

 Springs ; Psorophora howardii, Agricultural College : Urano- 

 tceyiia sapphiri?ia. Agricultural College. 



Notes on the Life History of Hepialus Sequoiolus 



Behrens. 

 By Francis X. Williams, San Francisco, Cal. 

 During the months of November and December, 1904, I col- 

 lected about two dozen mature H. sequoiolus larvae from the 

 stems of the yellow lupine {Lupinus arboreus'). Of these larvae 

 about one-half of their number pupated, and nine pupae pro- 

 duced imagines, six S % and three $ 9 . Mould is a very 

 fatal disease among these larvae which always keep their gal- 

 leries wet ; as many as twelve full-grown larvae could be found 

 in one large lupine trunk, but never more than half that num- 

 ber was alive, the rest being whitened corpses. 



