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Oct.—Dec., 1919 Bulletin of Brooklyn Entomological Society 145 
13, and Morristown, March 27, breeding in such fungi as Poly- 
porus giluus, P. dichrous, P. versicolor, P. hirsutus, Fomes ap- 
planatus, F. igniarius and Lenzites betulina being most abundant 
in Polyporus gilvus, P. versicolor and Fomes igniarius and least 
abundant in Fomes applanatus. All of the fungi mentioned occur 
on the dead wood of deciduous trees except Fomes igniarius 
which is found on the trunks of living deciduous trees. 
Ceracis sallei evidently hibernates in the larval and adult stages 
as both forms were abundant in fungi during March. Egg laying 
starts during the last of April 1f the weather is warm as eggs 
were noted at this time in channels eaten by the adults in the con- 
text of such fungi as Polyporus versicolor and P. hirsutus. The 
beetles and larve both feed in the context and tubes of the fungus 
and when numerous soon reduce it to a powdery condition so 
that it eventually weathers away. 
The egg is whitish, translucent and oval being about 0.24 mm. 
long and 0.14 mm. wide. They are deposited singly at the ends 
of channels eaten by the females. The full-grown larva is 2.4 
mm. long and 0.3 mm. wide, subcylindrical, elongate; sparsely 
hairy ; whitish except for third thoracic and first abdominal seg- 
ments which are brownish and abdominal segments four to nine 
which are yellowish white, these colors being due to the contents 
of the alimentary tract showing through the transparent skin. 
The ocelli are lateral, a pair and one somewhat above making a 
row of three. The head is slightly narrower than the prothorax ; 
thoracic and abdominal segments subequal in width; first thoracic 
segment twice as long as second; remaining thoracic and ab- 
dominal segments subequal in length; ninth abdominal segment 
bearing a dorsal pair of dark, chitinized hooks with large, basal 
portions. Legs terminated by fine, sharp hooks. 
Brachycis brevicollis Casey (Jour. N. Y. Ent. Soc., Vol. VI, 
p. 86). 
Casey described this species in 1898 from specimens found at 
Ithaca, N. Y. It is not listed by Blatchley from Indiana and 
Dury* records it from North Illinois and Mobile, Alabama, say- _ 
ing that it is abundant in Alabama, but that he has not yet found 
specimens at Cincinnati. Smith in his New Jersey List states that 
4 Jour. Cinn. Soc. Nat. Hist., Vol. XXII, No. 2, p. 22. 
