BULLETIN 



OF THE 



BROOKLYN ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY 



Vol. IX December, 1914 No. 5 



CONTENTS 



NOTES ON THE GENUS RHODITES, Beutenmuller 87 



PHOTOTROPISM IN HEMIPTERA, Torre-Bueno 90 



THE RUSSIAN MASTERS IN COLEOPTERA, Dow 96 



BEETLES UNDER A PILE OF GRASS, Dury loi 



NEW SPECIES OF ATLANTICUS, Davis 104 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE BROOKLYN ENTOMOLOGICAL 



SOCIETY 106 



THE SOUTHWEST MUSEUM OF LOS ANGELES 109 



NOTES ON THE GENUS RHODITES WITH DESCRIP- 

 TIONS OF NEW SPECIES. 



By Willix\m Beutenmuller,, New York. 



Rhodites gracilis Ashm. PL V, fig. 10. 



Hitherto this species has been known only by the types in the 

 collection of the United States National Museum, and the habitat 

 unknown. Mr. Lewis H. Weld collected the galls on Rosa lucida 

 or R. blanda at Evanston, III., and Mr. A. Cosens took it at 

 Toronto, Canada, on Rosa blanda. The gall occurs on the leaves, 

 sometimes covering the entire surface. 



Rhodites mayeri Schl. 



A single specimen of a gall of this European species was col- 

 lected by the late John B. Smith in a nursery at New Brunswick, 

 N. J., on a species of cultivated rose. The specimen was given to 

 me, and from it a single female emerged in May. The New 

 Jersey specimen agrees with that of R. mayeri from the Crimea, 

 Europe, in the U. S. Nat. Museum. This is the first record of 

 mayeri found in North America. 



