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use these jars should be kept in a dark place to prevent fading 

 of colors. 



As an indication of what may be done in the group, I need 

 only state that in two seasons, the writer, with Mr. Emil Beer, 

 of Chicago, who co-operated throughout, sviccessfully reared 

 to maturity 19 of the species listed above, all from the imme- 

 diate vicinity of Chicago. 



In conclusion I wish to acknowledge my indebtedness to 

 Mr. Otto Buchholz of Elizabeth, New Jersey, who first sup- 

 plied me with a list somewhat similar to that here given, and 

 also to Mr. Henry Bird, who supplemented the efforts of Mr. 

 Buchholz with valuable suggestions. 



Tribolium confusum Duval as a Museum Pest (CoL). 



During the late summer and fall of 1914, a sack of bran which had 

 been partly used in grasshopper poisoning became the breeding place 

 for the small flour beetle, Tribolium confusum Duval. From this bran, 

 which hung in the attic, the beetles became generally diffused through- 

 out- the laboratory, finding their way into the temporary insect boxes. 

 Aside from being a menace to the collections by crawling about in the 

 boxes knocking off legs, antennae, wings, etc., and small specimens off 

 points, they made further depredations by actually eating specimens. 

 Many smaller insects were eaten in the boxes, which work was, no 

 doubt, that of this insect and at one time the writer discovered five of 

 the adults within a cavity in the abdomen of a moth eating vigorously. 



This insect was found breeding in boxes of stored unpinned Lepi- 

 doptera by Mr. Wm. B. Turner, of this Station. Many larvae were 

 present, some inside the bodies of the moths, others about on the bot- 

 tom of box and in crevices. That they had been feeding was quite 

 evident from the fragmentary matter sifted down to the bottom of the 

 box. Pupae and newly emerged adults were present also. (Mar., 

 1915).— H. L. Parker, Bureau of Entomology, Division of Cereal and 

 Forage Crop Insect Investigations, Hagerstown, Md. 



Eleodes tricostatus Say in Missouri (Col.). 



Blaisdell in his Revision of the Eleodiini (U. S. Nat. Mus. Bui. 63, 

 '09) writing of this species mentions having no records of specimens 

 from Missouri, Arkansas, Minnesota or Louisiana. Stoner (Ent. 

 News, xxiv, 81) has recorded this species from about Fergus Falls, 

 Minnesota, where I have also taken it in considerable numbers. With- 

 in the last three years' collecting in Missouri, I found it not rare at 

 most points in the Ozark region. — M. P. Somes, Mountain Grove, 

 Missouri. 



