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in a capsule (taken from 34 specimens) as being near 40 and 

 the range from 28 to 58. "The number varies in different 

 localities and is doubtless dependent on the food of the female 

 insect. In several capsules obtained where amylaceous food 

 was abundant the average was much higher than in a much 

 greater number of capsules obtained from a place where fatty 

 food was the only diet." 



In the same place on a later page (p. 302) he again states: 

 "Taschenberg (46) claims that the female regularly lays only 

 one capsule and dies soon after its deposition. My observa- 

 tions on fifty females, whose wings were clipped as soon as 

 they had formed their first capsule, have convinced me that 

 they certainly lay two perfect capsules as a rule, and possibly 

 more, in the course of the year." Wheeler is also certain that 

 the young hatch without assistance from the female a fact easily 

 observed by keeping egg-capsules isolated and protected from 

 dryness. The young escape without difficulty from them. 



It follows from what has been written in this connection that 

 the total number of eggs deposited by single females of this 

 species will have to be determined by observation on living 

 females kept under as natural conditions as possible. The 

 number must average at or above 80. 



A New American Sitarine Beetle (Col., Lyttid.). 



By Creighton Wellman, Oakland, California. 



The writer recently received for determination from Pro- 

 fessor S. J. Hunter, of the University of Kansas, a collection 

 of Lyttidae secured last June by Mr. F. X. Williams, of the 

 same University, in Gove County, Kansas. Among the speci- 

 mens are a series found by Mr. Williams in bees' nests and 

 which represent an interesting new species described in the 

 following paper. 



These insects belong to the genus Hornia Riley (hitherto 

 known to contain but a single species) which is the only genus 

 representative of the Sitarini yet found in the western hem- 



