Vol. XXVi] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. a8l 



Notes and Ne'ws. 



■NTOMOLOOIGAL 0LBANIM06 FBOM ALL QUABTBB8 

 or THB OLOBB. 



Eotomolofists in title War Zone. 



A iciur irtjfii Dr. Karl Jordan, dated Tring, April 8, 1915. 10 Dr. 



Henry Skinner, states that I)r. Walther Horn, Dr. H. Schooteden and 



M. GuilUume Severin are well and at tbdr potts in their respective 



museunu (Berlin-Dahlem, Tervueren and Brussels.) The writer had 



been unable to get into c o wMnun i ca doo with Dr. Anton Handlirsch in 



Vicana. 



A Ifistakc of a Butterfly (Lep.). 



Mr. E. E. Barnard writes in .Vaf Mr <>, April 15. 1915. that« while looking 



at a bright-colored "eye" of a pcacuck's feather in the band of a num's 



hat. he saw a butterfly floating almvr. It suddenly alighted on the 



"eye** and apparently began trying to extract food from it. After 



several minutes it flew away as if satisfied that it had made a mistake. 



It wa\ rviilraily guided entirely by siRht in seeking food in thi< case. 



Ccrambydd in Bedstead (CoL). 

 RcccBlly one of my students brought in a larva which he found 

 workiag in the bedstead in his room. The larva had bored into the 

 rail, apparently from the inside, and was still working when fotmd. 

 It was evidently a Ccrambydd, hut in order to determine the species, 

 the specimen was sem to Dr. L. O. Howard at Waahiaflon, who writes 

 that Ifr. P. C Craichead. Specialist of Forest Insects, identified it as 

 the fauira of £6«rM ^-^tmimatm Say. This insect co mm on l y lecda in 

 seasoned oak. ash, bidmry. etc but the interesting qocstioa abovt tiib 

 particular case is when did the larva get into the bed rail and how 

 long has it been there? 



In tracing the history of the bed, I find that the present owner pur- 

 chased it b La Fayette nearly twenty years ago. and it has been in 

 constant use since that time. Another board in the bedstead shows 

 tmmistakable signs of having been "worm eaten" when pot into the 

 bed. and that would seem to indicate that these eggs were laid before 

 the lumber was worked up. If so. this larva is at least twenty years 

 old. Dr. Lintner makes mention, in his Fourth Report, of instances 

 where m e m be rs of this family have been known to escape from furni- 

 ture many years after the furniture was made up, and while it is 

 generally known that the absence of moisture and lade of air, caused 

 by polishing and varnishing of the lumber, will retard the rapidity of 

 dcvekipmcnt of the larvae of borers to a certain extent, it hardly 

 seems possible that the larval period would be prohmgcd for eighteen 

 or twenty years, as in this case; and yet I cannot account for it in 

 any other way, as the excavations all indicate that they were made 

 from the inside. This species is quite rare in Indiana, and is the 

 only species of Eburia found in the Sute.— J. Taoor. Purdue Univer- 

 sity. LaFayette. Indiana. 



