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velopment of the Tarnished Plant-bug, Lygus pratensis Linn, Leonard 

 Haseman, University of Missouri; The strigil in Corixidae and its 

 probable function, J. F. Abbott, Washington University. (Ent. Soc.)- 



THYSANOPTERA.— Head and mouth-parts of Cephalothrips yuc- 

 cae, Alvah Peterson, University of IlHnois. (Ent. Soc). 



COLEOPTERA. — The ontogeny of elytral pigmentation in Cicindela, 

 Victor E. ShElford, University of Chicago ; Life history and habits 

 of Trogoderma tarsale, a museum pest, J. E. WodsedalEk, University 

 of Wisconsin. (Ent. Soc). 



TRICHOPTERA.— An interesting feature in the venation of 

 Helicopsyche, the Mollannidae. and the Leptoceridae, C. BettEn, Lake 

 Forest University. (Ent. Soc). 



LEPIDOPTERA. — The homology of the body setae of lepidopterous 

 larvae, Y. H. Tsou and S. B. FrackER, University of Illinois; The 

 anatomy of some lepidopterous pupae, Edna Mosher, University of 

 Illinois ; The tracheation of the pupal wings of some saturnians, N. 

 L. Partridge, University of Illinois. (Ent. Soc). 



DIPTERA. — On the biology of Drosophila ampeJophila. Frank 

 LuTz, Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. ; Observations on the biology of a blow- 

 fly and a flesh fly, E. P. Felt, State Entomologist, New York. (Ent. 

 Soc). 



Notes and. News. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL GLEANINGS FROM ALL QUARTERS 

 OF THE GLOBE. 



Eleodes in Minnesota (Coleop.) 



During the months of July and August, 191 1, while collecting on the 

 low sand hills west of Fergus Falls, Minnesota, I had the good for- 

 tune to secure several specimens of Eleodes tricostata Say. The 

 beetles were found under boards along the Union Pacific Railway 

 tracks and were quite common. This species I also collected in the 

 latter part of August at Wall Lake, Minnesota, about six miles east 

 of Fergus Falls. Here, also, the region is sandy but the beetles were 

 not so common as at Fergus Falls. This is, I believe, the first record 

 of the occurrence of Eleodes in the State. 



Blaisdell, in his "Revision of the Eleodiini of the United States" 

 (Bull. 63, U. S. N. M., 1909), says of the sub-genus Melaneleodes 

 Blaisdell : "Distributed throughout nineteen States out of the twenty- 

 three west of the Mississippi River. I have no record of specimens from 

 Missouri, Arkansas, Minnesota and Louisiana." 



