68 ENTOMOLOGICAL. NEWS. [March 



Notes and News. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL GLEANINGS FROM ALL QUARTERS OF THE GLOBE. 



On the Larva of Evergestis Funalis, Grote.- Late in July, 

 1898, 1 noticed that tlia Portnlacca which grows abundantly on the 

 campus of the N. M. Agrricultural College, Mesilla Park, N. M., 

 was shrivelling' up and turnins; brown. A closer examination showed 

 that it was attacked by enormous numbers of pyralid lai'vae. Some 

 of these larvae, collected July 28th, were described as follows : 



20. mm long, green, sage-green on back, with a transparent 

 dark (not pigmented) dorsal stripe; sides becoming darker (because 

 more transparent) than the green subdorsal areas, until the level of 

 the spiracles, where there is a greenish-white longitudinal band 

 with a jagged upper edge; below this band and beneath, is very 

 pale green, with a pinkish suffusion above each leg. The piliferous 

 tubercles just above the spiracles are darkened, and on the last two 

 segments they are all dark, the dorsal ones variegated with whitish. 

 Head pale ochreous, marbled with brown Legs all pale. A vai'ie- 

 ty has the sides and the ventral surface between the abdominal legs 

 strongly suffused with pink. 



The moths bred from these larvae (emei-gingfrom August 6th on) 

 are of two types, identical in markings, but differing in color. One 

 type, identified by Dr. H. G. Dyar as Evergestis funalis, has the 

 markings on the upper wings strong and blackish. The other has 

 them very pale ochreous, quite inconspicuous. From the larvae I 

 bred a parasite in fair numbers: this was identified by Mr. W. H. 

 Ashmead as Temelucha ("formerly Porizon) facialis {QvQ^^on) . 



On September 4, 1895, the college campus at Mesilla Park was 

 invaded by great numbers of another variable pyralid {Loxostege 

 similalis, Gn. det. Dyar), but Idid not find the larvae. 



T. D. A. COCKERELL. 



Massing of Coccinellids.— As a very much belated addition to 

 the notes on this subject, published in the News, volumes viii and 

 ix, the following items miy be of interest, while their non-entomo- 

 logical source may cause them to be overlooked by the Coleopterol- 

 ogists In recently rending Sir "William Martin Conway's " The 

 Alps Irom End to End " (Westmiu8ter,Archibald Constable &Co , 

 1895), I found on page 194—" Near the foot of the [Oberaar] glacier 

 were countless lady-birds grouped on stones and even on the ice it- 

 self [July 18th] ; " and on page 207 " The stone-covered Winter 

 glacier, where there were again a quantity of lady-birds on the 

 stones [July 21st] " P. P. Calvert. 



Habits of Ischnura Kellicotti (order Odonata).— (See the News 

 for November, 1898, page 209.) "Writing of this species, in a per- 

 sonal letter, itsdescriber, Mr. E. B. Williamson,8ays : The first male 

 I took I thought was Enallagma gennnata,vfh\ch latter species, to- 



