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oe , eve one a black-brown niger; four black males and 
a 1 red males. Two of the black males were in sexual 
contac and in several instances a red male, sometimes two, 
attached to a miger female. On warm sunny days the red 
ales. tre flying. It was exciting to draw one down by a wave 
he net when it would descend on an incline and strike the 
round like a pebble. If we simply allowed it to reach an oak 
“most sure Se ee med erate near. 
.. The n here for niger is October 26th to December 1. 
On th Sits Tesh WMlale in the act of ovipositing. The 
‘is pure white, cylindrical, convex at each end, more than 
+ vice as long as wide and so minute (one-forty-fifth of an inch 
ree th) that five lengths would not equal the diameter of the 
rae ‘of S. antaeus.* The eggs are irregularly clustered in a 
en tk of bark or wood or on under side of loose bark of a dead 
bi th or trunk of black-jack oak and are attached by silken 
 E gtThe female imago is a full inch in length, entirely nude of 
Efe, with the nine outer segments of antennz in short lamine 
 imer to the thickened tip. The male is from 11-16 to 
«ager in length; pubescent beneath and above espe- 
rs ly on face; thorax and base of elytra, and with the nine 
ee 6 em neers: 
Me E T. Carsson, the distinguished Hymenopterist and treasurer 
- of the American Entomological Society, has been in charge of the pub- 
of the Society since 1861, a record of 47 years’ unselfish service 
interest of entomology. 
es J. Quayte, assistant professor of Entomology in the University 
will be located at the Southern California Pathological 
Laboratory, Whittier, Cal., after July first. 
7... 3rd, 1907, I took a perfectly fresh specimen of Calli- 
_ @ryas agarithe 4, at Beach Haven, New Jersey; it was found in com- 
pany with large numbers of eubule, of which I took twenty-one males 
, ‘Sed nine feorales. Is this not a new record for New Jersev? The 
was in such perfect condition that it seems impossible that it 
have flown up from the South —W. G. Frreocey, Jr 
that 200 eggs of S. ager would equal is SS cus <8g of 
S. antacus, but antacus imago is very heavy and niger imago very 
i The egg of Dynastes tityrus is also small, one-half the diameter 
that of antacus. 
