June, '06] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 213 



Oliv.). The larvae of this beetle caused considerable injury to 

 young corn early in April, 1903, through central Texas. In 

 the worst injured field at College Station, the larvae were 

 found working upon the roots of Johnson grass, where they 

 seemed to be older than on corn. About one-third of the hills 

 of corn were killed and a considerable acreage was replanted. 

 Several nearly full grown larvae were placed in breeding cages 

 and pupated about April 29th. One beetle emerged from 

 these May 12th. 



January 16, 1904, the adults were found very numerous upon 

 alfalfa. Females of this lot examined'" had well-developed 

 eggs. They were again destructive to garden stuff, especially 

 snap beans the first week in April, but the larvae did not do 

 much injury to corn. The adults of the second generation 

 were numerous May 6, 1904. (For the best account of this 

 species on corn in the South, see Quaintance, Bulletin 26, n. s. , 

 Div. Entomology, U. S. Dept. Agr., p. 35). 



I think the editors of Entomological News should be proud of their 

 journal. I notice the April number has four full plates and 15 to 20 text 

 figures. Is there any entomological journal published at twice the price 

 that can beat that? Aldrich's plate is a work of art. — E. B. Williamson. 



Ophisma tropicalis Guenee, in Fairmount Park. — I exhibited this 

 moth at a recent meeting of the American Entomological Society, not 

 having determined it. Mr. William Beutenmuller who was present at 

 the meeting wrote me a few days after as follows : "The strange Noctuid 

 from Fairmount Park, exhibited at the last meeting of the Society, is 

 Ophisma tropicalis Guenee. The species is subject to considerable 

 variation, and we have one specimen from Jalapa, Mexico, in our col- 

 lection, almost exactly like it. We also have specimens from Coatepec, 

 Mexico; Aroa, Venezuela and Rio Janeiro, Brazil." The " Biologia " 

 gives the following distribution : Panama, Colombia, Guiana, Brazil, 

 Cuba. The moth was captured by Mr. Herman Hornig on the evening 

 of August 5, 1905. He gives the following account : M It was caught at 

 Chamounix, Fairmount Park, Philadelphia. The flight of the moth is 

 similar to that of the Sphingidae, the wings supporting the body while 

 feeding, the food in this case being well fermented molasses. It was 

 caught about 8.10 p.m." It is difficult to tell whether the moth was only 

 an accidental find, brought here by commerce, or whether it has obtained 

 a foothold like the big Mantid, Tenodera sinensis.— Henry Skinner. 



