288. ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [June, ’o8 
voured all the other larvae. (This probably accounts for the 
eggs being deposited solitarily.) October 12th the cannibal 
larva, less than two months old, had grown from its abnormal 
feeding to a length of two inches; color: head blackish, legs 
and spiracles yellow-brown, body whitish, with blue-black 
showing through, under side and last three segments blue- 
black. 
From August, 1907, three larve from eggs were fed sepa- 
rately on dead oak leaves and roots, and at four months were 
only one inch long, so that the two months old two-inch canni- 
bal specimen was doubtless of abnormal size. It would be in- 
teresting to rear a larva-fed antaeus grub into pupa or imago 
and note whether it would become a giant specimen or simply 
mature more rapidly. 
Strategus splendens, Beauv. This rare species occurs here 
with a season at least two months earlier than antaeus. In 
June and July I find only dead specimens, and a fresh living 
beetle was dug from my garden January Ist, within a few 
feet of which I found on the same date an imago which had 
evidently died just after moulting, as the elytra were abortive. 
Geotrupes balyt. This species buries not only animal drop- 
pings, but decadent fruits. I noted it working under spoiled 
cocoanut and also under refuse watermelon. Dr. L. O. How- 
ard wrote me that this was a new observation. 
Sandalus niger.. I have discovered what was, I believe, 
hitherto unproved, that the reddish male of Sandalus is a fixed 
variety of niger. Dr. Howard writes me that Dr. Horn, in his 
synopsis of the genus, suspected this relationship. He wrote 
also that my dates are interesting, as in the vicinity of Wash- 
ington, D. C., where S. niger is rare, the mating season is not 
later than August. I note as follows: 
“In November, 1904, took two or three living females on 
dead black-jack oak. In November, 1905, found a few females, 
and Mr. R. S. Woglum, acting State Entomologist, took one 
red male, the first found here. In November, 1906, we took 
twenty females, three black males and two red males. I then 
suspected that the red males were niger, as we found no red 
females to correspond. In November, 1907, we took forty 
