138 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [May, '20 



Notes and News 



ENTOMOLOGICAL GLEANINGS FROM ALL QUARTERS 

 OF THE GLOBE 



Change of Address 



Mr. Richard T. Garnett has removed to 625a 14th Street, Oakland, 

 California. 



Notes on the Habits of Promecognathus laevissimus Dejean. 

 (Col., Carabidae.) 



After noting several crushed Scaphinotus on the paths in a damp ravine 

 on the campus of the University at Berkeley, I sank a Mason jar into 

 the ground in a little runway that led down to the stream. This run- 

 way was surrounded on either side by a heavy carpet of English ivy. 

 The trap was baited with scraps of meat, but in the three months that 

 have elapsed not a single Scaphinotus has been taken; the only species 

 that have fallen victims are Promecognathus laevissimus Dej., Pterostichus 

 vicimis Mann., and Omus californicus Esch. The presence of Prome- 

 cognathus in a trap in the open is surprising, insomuch as it is commonly 

 supposed to lead a strictly subterranean life. Even when daily visits 

 were made to the jar (whether it was baited or not) there were always 

 at least a pair of them trapped, showing that this pugnacious Carabid 

 is in the habit of taking nocturnal strolls. But one specimen of Omus 

 was taken in this way.— Richard T. Garxett, Oakland, California. 



Notes on North Carolina Dragonflies (Odonata) 



1. Enallagma geminatum. About three dozen specimens were 

 taken by Prof. C. H. Kennedy and myself on June 17, 1919, on some old 

 brickyard ponds near Raleigh. Among these were a number which had 

 the sides of the second abdominal segment mainly black with an anterior 

 wedge-shaped blue stripe and a posterior blue semicircle, which when en- 

 larged and connected cut off the usual oblong black spot on the segment. 

 Another specimen was taken on July 10 at same place. 



2. Gomphus parvidens B. M. Currie. A male Gomphus taken at 

 Southern Pines, April 29, 1908, and recorded by me as G. brimleyi in Ent. 

 News for June, 1918, proves to be this species. The female from Raleigh 

 referred to brimleyi in the same article also seems to be this species as 

 does also a female from Luniberton, the only remaining one of the three 

 Lumberton Gomphus referred to brimleyi in Ent. News, June, 1918, to 

 abbreiiatus in the News, March, 1906, and to parvulus in the News, March, 

 1904. 



3. Libelula incesta. For several years I have noticed that along 

 with the usual clearwinged incesta, there occurred a form similar in every 

 respect, but with the basal streaks present or the postcubitals infuscated 



