LULLKIIN OF IHi: BiiUOKLY^.E^T. BOC. 



i Of Cychrus Lecontei I have 2 males and 1 female, and I saw them 

 while feeding on a larva drive eaoh other away from their prey. 

 This was also seen by Mr. H. K. Morrison, when he lately paid me a 

 visit. Besides the collecting- I do not know of anything that gives 

 more pleasure than to closely watch these little creatures, and I hops 

 others will be induced to devote some of their time to this very in- 

 teresting part of Entomology. It would afford me great pleasure, 

 to receive any communications on this matter. s C h aupp . 



LARTA OF MCAELDS DILATATUS. 



Aug. 1. 1877 I found two larvae under a board in 

 the wood and v'sited them every day until aug 6 

 when one of them was transformed into a pupa. 

 I left it three days in the wood, then took it home, 

 and put it into a bottle half filled with dry earth, 

 wetting it da ; ly with 3 or 4 drops of water. 

 aug. 12. it was transformed into Dicaelus dilata- 

 Fig- i- tus. It remained two days white, the 3d day it 



became brown, and the legs and abdomen began to blacken; ado. 15 



it was all black. I fed the imago with flies, deprived of wings aud 

 in one instance it ate a brge pupa of a Lepidoptera devouring in 

 ten minutes its whole contents. 



The larvae — see fig. 1 — is about 25 mm long; head red, thorax 

 black, ventral segments yellowish white, each with a longitudinal 

 black spot above, and beneath with 7 spots arranged as in fig. l.a; 

 the sides of each segment are also black, distinctly pointed. The 

 anus is prolonged downwards, and the last segment is prolonged 

 into two slender appendages. Schau PP . 



see Horn Description of the larva of the N. A. Cicindelidae also of Dicaelus 

 etc. Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. VIT. 1878. pag. 37. 



SOME NOTES ON ARCTIA FIGURATA eeu. 



In the early part of May 1877 I took at Brentwood L. I. a cripp- 

 led female of Ai/ctia figurata of which I succeeded in getting 25 

 eggs. In about two weeks most of these hatched and they fed rea- 

 dily on common dandelion. Altogether I had 15 larvae of which 

 [ July 5th ] 13 were feeding. Of these the two f : rst went under- 

 ground July 8th and all of the rest but one soon followed. This one 

 hibernated in larval state, spun up at the beginning of April IH7*. 

 The full grown larva is jet '».!a< k. hairs very stiff, and the movement 



