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The true queen of Termes flavipes Kol. — In Proc. Ent. Soc, 

 Washington, 14:10? (1912), T. E. Snyder reports the finding 

 of a true fertihzed queen of Termes flavipes Kol., and states in 

 a foot note that it is believed to be the first record of finding 

 the true queen of this species. Ten years ago in Journ. N. Y. 

 Ent. vSoc, 10: 251 (1902), I recorded the finding of the true queen 

 of Termes flavipes Kol., at Mosholu, N. Y., and Mr. L. H. Joutel 

 has also found the true queen, but his record has never been 

 published. The queen was found on July 16, 1902, while looking 

 for termitophilous Coleoptera, inside a small, dry branch in 

 company with a great niimber of workers and soldiers. — 

 Charles Schaeffer. 



A Visit with a Cicindela. — One September afternoon I anchored 

 my boat about 100 feet off the north shore of Rockaway Beach, 

 near a point where Cicindela marginata is not uncommon. A 

 light breeze came from the south bringing at first as insect visitors 

 diptera and hymenoptera, settling down on the white paint. 

 Soon came lady birds and a few other beetles. Finally a 

 marginata dropped to a cockpit bench, quite tuckered by its 

 flight from shore. I offered hospitality in the shape of flies 

 freshly killed, but my guest took no notice of them although 

 poked within three inches of its eyes. It showed almost no alarm 

 except when my face came near. 



On the under side of the awning were many large green 

 tabanids. Through one of these I thrust a pin and offered the 

 impaled fly buzzing loudly. Master Cicindela eyed it for a few 

 seconds, and walked around it, apparently mustering his courage. 

 Finally he leaped, clasped the fly's body with all six legs and 

 buried mandibles into the front somites of the abdomen. A 

 large piece was thus torn out. The beetle fell back to the bench 

 and leisurely consumed it. I could plainly watch the action of 

 the maxillary palpi pressing the food to the mouth, curling around 

 it. The actual mastication by the lacinia was also plainly visible, 

 the two blades sawing back and forth alternately. 



A few moments later it again approached the still buzzing 

 fly, but an unfortunate movement frightened it and it flew, turn- 

 ing south against the wind. Apparently the sense of sight or 

 orictation operated to guide it in the direction of shore.^R. P. Dow. 



