I08 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [April, '20 



Tinea acapnopennella Clem.* (Lepid.) Bred from Fungus. 



This species was bred August 15, from the fungus Polyporus tulipijerus 

 collected at Monmouth Junction, New Jersey, on an old stump. It is 

 already recorded in Smith's " Insects of New Jersey " as occurring at Angle- 

 sea, June to August, Essex County (Kf.) and Wenonah, August 20 (Haim.), 

 but no mention is made of the host, Polyporus tidipiferus, which is found on 

 the dead wood of deciduous trees. The larva feeds on the fungus and 

 when full grown pupates in the decayed wood to which the fungus is 

 attached. 



Full grown larva. — Length 5.5 mm., width 1.35 mm. Subcylindrical, 

 whitish except for head which is dark and a dark, transverse, dorsal area 

 on the first thoracic segment, this area being bisected by a light, median, 

 longitudinal line. Antennae 3-iointed, third joint longest and bearing 

 several fine hairs. Head bears several long, fine hairs. Dorsal surface of 

 second and third thoracic segments transversely wrinkled. Dorsal sur- 

 face of body bears four longitudinal rows of long, fine hairs, two rows on 

 either side of middle with a few shorter, scattered hairs. Entire dorsal 

 and ventral surface covered with a fine minute pile. True and prolegs 

 well developed. 



Pupa. — Length 6 mm., width 1.5 mm. Brownish, sparsely hairy. Dor- 

 sal surfaces of abdominal segments 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8 each bear two trans- 

 verse rows of minute, posteriorly directed spines, these spines becoming 

 larger posteriorly and largest on eighth segment. Last segment bears a 

 minute pair of ventral recurved hooks. 



Adult. — This was described by Clemens in 1859 (Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 

 Phil., p. 257). Dietz, in his revision of the Tineid subfamilies Amydriinae 

 and Tineinae (Tr. Am. Ent. Soc, vol. xxxi, No. i), gives a redescription 

 which it is not necessary to repeat here. In this paper the distribution 

 of the species is given as Pennsylvania, District of Columbia, Maryland 

 and Louisiana. — Harry B. Weiss, New Brunswick, New Jersey. 



Mr. E. B. Williamson Collecting Odonata in Venezuela. 



Messrs. E. B. and J. H. Williamson left Bluffton, Indiana, on January 10, 

 1920, for a collecting trip in Venezuela, expecting to return about May 15. 

 Writing from that South American country on February 8, in regard to 

 Odonata, Mr. E. B. Williamson says: "One week's collecting at San Este- 

 ban, 50 species and about 1300 specimens. Heteragrion chrysops on every 

 quebrada. Have a beautiful Gynacantha, a Progomphus and a Gomphoides. 

 Philogenia very common, Palaemnema rare. Neoneiira esthera and Proto- 

 neura amatoria here. " 



*Kindly identified by Mr. August Busck. 

 tKindly identified by Mr. Erdman West. 



