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THE AMERICAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Beetles nameH.—Fdw. P. Allis, M!lwmil-fe, Wis.— 

 No. I Ap/wdiiis fimetarius Fabr. (Europe). No. oJ A. 

 i/ranarius (Europe). No. 2 Onthophague liemte. Panzer 

 (f" $ . No. 3 Dimutes near amerieanus, F&hv . No, 4 

 Amam olem, Hay. 'Sfo. SI A. impunct-icoUis, Say . No. 

 ;W A. near impuncticollis. No. 6 Aciliue fralemus §, 

 Harris. No. 6 Agonoderus paUipes, Fabr. No. 7 iTor- 



palui faunux. Say. Nos. 10 .fe 12 Z/.?;-;). . No. 23 



II. ,;-iithropiis. Pej. No. 24 /A ;-. ;,n,.y;v,„/,7,,v, Dej. 

 No. ril //. h.rh!rn,n,s. Say. No .Ml //. iic:ir h. rh;,;i,n,x. 

 So.H An;sod,U'/i/l:is c„rh.„.n;.,s,i<:iy. No 22 J /wW- 

 morfiim'x, Say. No. .')8 ,1. ruslims. Say. No 3 IJister 



. No. 13 //. amrkanus, Paykull." No. .38 //. ah- 



hrfriatus, Fuhr. No. 11 Btjtiscus /ii/lridu/!, Aube. No. 

 14 Plati/nux plaeidus. Say. No. 15 PI. ?nelanarms Dej. 



No. 18 PI. mpripeniiis, Say. No. 19 PI. . No. 



le Bfiiihidhim lucidum, Lee. No. 17 Merinns Im-is, Oliv. 

 No. 20 Chlneiti'i/n pennsylvanicvft, Dej. No. 21 Elaphrus 

 riiscariuR, Say. No. 25 Diplochila ohtima ? Lee. No. 28 

 D. imprexxicoUii!, Dej. No. 29 D. laticuUis, Lee. No. 

 26 Pfrnstichus sfi/fficiis, Say. No. 47 /'^ jhwi'v*, Say. No. 

 54 Pt. desidiosus^iee. No. 21 P,wili,sc7>a/cites, Say. No. 

 32 CT^TOs nigripes, Say. No. 33 TriAivK affliiis, G. & P. 

 No. 34 MordcUa lineata f Melsh, No. X^ XotiopUliis 

 scmiMHalus, S.ay. No. 36 i\'./." / - -. Il.iitz. No. 

 '.il CM,!asn-icm, Say. No. In., ..^:iy. No. 



30 Dark variety of 40. No. II ' ",,/,/, Doj. 



No. 42 r. 12-."".'/. Dri. .\,.,. i;;,^ i,s r. ..;./.„./;./„ , 

 Uenlz. No. II ,' .S:,v. N,.> 4:. A: r,;l 7; ».?./■/.. 



«»,///„;•, L. iljir..,. .. N.. 4r, y„r,n„/,v A,v„„„„. Kul,,-. 

 No. 40 .ly,,;.;,--. „,,/i,.,„ ,„„,^ Kno.'li. No. :.2 rialijcen,, 

 dipi-esgim, IjUC. No. jj Ccidroidpii.^ calcaratus,Vahv . No. 

 s6 Diaperis hydiU, Fabr. No. 59. A'l/ctobiites jieimsi/hanicits, 



Dej. Several of tlie above arrived in very bad 



order. If you will send good >ii(Mii]i(ii> of Xos. 9, 10, 

 19, 30 & 50, we willtry anddclrniiiii. ilnni specifically. 

 In a difficult genu.s, it is often ini|ic.--ililc lo determine 

 tlie species with the re(iiiisitc |nr.-i>i..ii IV.iui niie or two 

 poor mutilated .<pecinieiis. 



The Royal Horiicd-ratcriiillaT— y^i . I>. L. 



Pharex. Womh;Ue. Miss .—In Vol. I, No. 12. (p. 230) 

 wc said that this insect "is quite scarce even as far 

 snutli as BushlM 1^. Mo., Brighton, 111., and St. Louis, 

 3Io. ■ ' AVe intended it to be inferred from this state- 

 ment, that still further south it was by no means so 

 scarce. You understand us to mean exactly the con- 

 trary, and inform us that it is not uncommonly met 

 with in your neighborhood in latitude 31o 30'. As 

 others may possibly make the same mistake, we think 

 it best to say here in so many words, what it was that 

 we really intended to be inferred from our language, 

 namely, that this insect is nuich more abundant in 

 southern than in northern latitudes within th(^ limits of 

 the United States. 



Aquatic eggs—W. 0. Hisley, .Viiinmpnlh, Mf».~ 

 The round white semi-transparent eggs, about 0.03 

 inch in diameter, which you found attached to a stick 

 of wood that had been underwater, are most probably 

 those of some air-breathing Water-snail, belonging to 

 such genera as Planoi-his etc. They bear a striking re- 

 semblance, except in size, to those of the large brown 

 snail commonly met with in English gardens, which 

 last in the days of our boyhood we used often to find 

 in masses a little below the surface of the earth. We 

 know of no aquatic insect that lays sueh eggs. 



Insects named — S. V. Summers, M. D., St. Louis, 

 Mo. — Your insects are as follows: No. 1, Mantis Caro- 

 lina, Linn. g. No. 2, Conorhinvs sangvisuga, Le 

 Conte. (See Vol. l,*Fig. 74). No. 3, CUceniiis seri- 

 ceiis, Say. No. i, Scarites suUerraneus, Fahr . No. 5, 

 Galerita janiis, Fabr. No. 6, Patrohus longicornis, 

 Say. No. 7, Pterosiiclms sailptus, Xec. No. 8, 

 amuliognall'iR 7^.:'iv?i-7., .•..,-.•, lie Geer. (See Vol. 1, 

 Fig 55). No. n. ./„,, Germ. No. 10, Oodes 



c«/j>C(«<«, Chan! II N- II. {.mnoderiis palIipes,'Fahv. 

 No. 12, j5./»/ /.., ,//.;, /-,m, Dej. No. 13, i>/a- 

 tyims S-piiiifiaius, Lee. No. 14, lan'a of No. 20. 

 No. 15, Dii'drocephala vwlUpes , Say. No. 16, Aretia 

 [Spilosoma] rirginica, Fabr. No. 17, Jlippodamia maeu- 

 lata, DeGeer. (See Vol. I, Fig. 36.) No. 18. Dia- 

 IroHca vittata, Fabr. (See Vol. II, Fig. 19). No. 19, 

 Dialrotica VL-puMtata, Fabr. (See Vol. I, Fig. 168.) 

 No. 20, Rippodamia coiivergeiis , Guer! (See Vol. I, 

 Fig. 39.) No. 21, larva of ..4™« «;«nosffi, Dallas. No. 

 22, Tacky s pulchellus, Ferte. No. 23, Pemhidiiim near 

 i-mactdatum, Linn. No. 24, cf of No. 1. No. 25, 

 Ualtifa ciiciwieris, Harr. (See Vol. I, Fig. 19). No. 

 26, Tetligonia, [Erythronmra] mtis, Ilarr. A\'e shouUl 

 like further specimens of No. 23. 



Hair-irorm or Hair-snake — jE". //. lung, W>'st 

 Lilnrfii, Iiiirii. — The insect you send is the i)upa of one 

 fif oin- finen Meadow Catydids — perhaps flrehilimiim 

 i"/;/.(;. . ll:in'is, ]HTli:i|.-. (',,/, ,:l.ih, irJjtiu ,h . liurmeis- 

 ler: but :is in llii- uiini- iImi,' are .[ i;rrat many closely 

 alliril >|irrir.. ni'^-l "!' u liiili arr .■illn-i- enlin ly undes- 

 cribed, or so Ini. il\ (l.-,iili( .1 tlial tlje .sani(! descrip- 

 tion will apply e.|uailx well In lialfa dozen distinct 

 species, we slnnild in.f like to sjieak positively as to the 

 species to whi.li xanu- pnpa lielonics. "The long 

 thread-like appendage ' ' issuing from the upper sur- 

 face of its abdomen, is a Hair-worm {Gordfus), re- 

 specting which parasitic genus see the Answer to E. 

 Baxter on page 57 of our First Volume. In a future 

 article we shall illustrate this remarkable group of in- 

 testinal worms, which has long been known to infest 

 dift'crent kinds of Catydids and Grasshoppers. The 

 popular belief that these worms are animated horse- 

 hairs is, of course, a simple delusion. Thanks to your 

 (•areful packing, the specimen reached us in excellent 

 order 



Dahlia Stallt Borer— (P. C. Jlrnadii.,i.l. r/,,i.<„nl 

 IIUl, JT".— The two worms which were found in Dahlia 

 Stalks, and which " seem to have entered when quite 

 vovmgand passed up, eating the pith out of the main 

 stem," arc the common Stalk Borer (Gortyna luteUi, 

 Guen.), which we have so often referred to antl which 

 we figured twice in our first volume (Figs. U and 140.) 



Parsnip IVorni — Jno. Adams, Gray Corner, Maine. 

 —The worms found by you on Parsnip la>t .luly, were 

 the larv.T? of the common Asterias Swallou-fnil ( A//i////> 

 Asterias, Cram.) 



EKRAT,\ IN VOL. 2. XO, 1. 



On page 2", foUunu 2, line 13 from bottom , for • MJoId 

 Ciilt-beetle" read "Gilt Gold-beetle." On page 31, 

 column 1, lino 30, for " Ciilopferon" read " Calop- 

 ieron." On p.age 31, column 1, line41, for "No. 8 

 pin' ' read ' 'No. 18 pin. " On page 32, column 2, line 

 10, for " Gastfracauiha'' read " Gaeteracantha." 



