ence for some days after they arrived. It lived for several 

 months in the jar with the numerous specimens of the large 

 species, feeding upon bread, bits of cooked meat, and insect 

 remains, but was finally attacked by ants (Pheidole mega- 

 cepJiala) and succumbed. 



I classified the specimen as above, in Brunner's Nouveau 

 Systeme des Blattaires, p. 348, and sent it to Professor Law- 

 rence Bruner for verification, since the original was named 

 from Africa. Professor Bruner writes : 



"I have gone over .the specimen somewhat carefully and find 

 that you have very evidently placed the insect in Holocompsa 

 fulva Burm. It is either this insect or a very closely related 

 species. There have been two other species described that I 

 do not happen to have the description of at present. One of 

 these came from the South Sea islands, the other from x\frica. 

 The South Sea island species, I believe, was considerably 

 larger than the present, hence I do not imagine that either of 

 them could l)e the insect now beins; considered." 



Notes on Life History of "Dermestes cadaverinus " Fab. 



BY J. F. ILLINGW^ORTII. 

 [Presented at November Meeting.] 



Recently (September 9, 1915) a collection of the large 

 cockroaches (Rliyparohia made me) which I had drying was 

 attacked by these insects. Each morning I found a number 

 of the beetles hidden away under the pinned roaches. Ap- 

 parently the life history of this species has not been pub- 

 lished, unless in one of the early European pul)lieations which 

 is not available. 



OCCUEREXCE IN THE UNITED STATES. 



Dr. Horace J. Jayne, in his paper "A Revision of the 

 Dermestidae of the LTnited States" (Proc. Amer. Philosophical 

 Soc. Vol. XX, p. 353, 1883), records this species as occur- 

 ring in Florida. A second reference bv F. H. Chittenden, 



Proc. Haw. Ent. Soc, III, No. 3, September, 1916. 



