Vol. XXvi] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 55 



to the shiny black color and fine longitudinal striation. Hatch- 

 ing occurred after several days, the young being characteristic 

 in appearance. They are black with two adjacent white stripes 

 across the middle of the body; closer inspection shows also 

 that the femora are white and the sides of the prothorax while 

 the two white stripes across the thorax are on the last two 

 thoracic segments which are white, margined with black U'hind. 

 Since no other roach is present, it is taken to be highly prul>a- 

 ble tliat these young and the sacs are auslralasiar. I do not 

 remcni' ; having seen the sacs of woodland q>ecies coated 



over w i. and this case appears to be altogether excep- 



tional. Later, other egg cases not striated but opaque and red- 

 dish brown, similarly dqiosited but uncoated were found, and 

 these appear to be aiistralasiar since I obtained a similar sac 

 from a female of that species in a hotel at Nelson. 



Still later on ^fay 2, I found a number of the sacs, some 

 coated over with mud, some not ; both the snMXMh and striated 

 ones were found under both conditions. In a groove running 

 down the center of a crotspiece on the door of a basement 

 room in the laboratory, a sac of austrakuiat was found which 

 was covered over (but only partly concealed) with minute 

 bits of wood glued to the sac and which had been chewed from 

 the sharp edges of the groove, as was plainly e\-ident by the 

 marks of the mandibles ; the sac then resembles the surface of 

 any wet or sticky object which has been ^rinkled over with 

 finely divided straw. The sacs, at least when coated with mud. 

 are usually found against or upon the nests of muddaubers', so 

 that resembling very closely one of the daubs of mud which 

 these wasps use to cover over their cells, they are very well 

 hidden indeed.* 



The Occurrence of Cimbx lxctuu^rius Linnaeus in 

 Queensland. 



On January 17, 191 3, I found in the mattress of a bed in a 

 hotel at Townsville, three specimens of a Cimrx which upon 

 comparison with specimens of Uctularius from North America 



*Tbe sacs of ausiraiatme have alio been found to be deposited 

 commonly into boxes of earth, to depths of one inch or more. 



