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THE AMERICAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Beetles named. — Edw. P. AUis, Milwaukee, Wis. — 

 No. Y Apliodiiis fimetarius Fabr. (Europe). No. ol A. 

 granarius (Europe). No. 2 Onthophagus liecate, Panzer 

 1^ S . No. 3 JJineutes near americanus, Fabr. No. i 

 Amara ohesa, Say. No. 31 ^1. impuncticolUs, Say. No. 

 30 A. near impuncticolUs. No. 5 Acilius fi'atemus 2, 

 Harris. No. 6 Agonoderus pallipes , Fabr. No. 7 Bar- 



palus f annus, Say. No.s. 10 & 12 ffarp. . No. 23 



11. ert/thropus, Dej . No. 24 IT. pennsi/lvaniciis, Dej. 

 No. 51 JT. hertivagus, Say. No. bO S/. near Juiiieagus. 

 No. 8 Anisodactylus carboimrins, Say. No. 22 A. halti- 

 morensis, Say. No. 58 A. rustims, Say. No 9 Ilister 



. No. 13 R. americanus, Paykull. No. 3S //. ah- 



Irewiatus, '£:ihr. No. 11 Dytisms liyhHdus, Aahe. No. 

 14 Platynus placidus, Say. No. 15 PI. melanarius Pej. 



No. 18 PI. mpripennis, Say. No. 19 PI. . No. 



16 Bemhidium lucidum, Lee. No. 17 Merinus Icevis, Oliv. 

 No. 20 Ghlceiiius pennsylvanicus, Dej. No. 21 Elaphrus 

 ruscarius. Say. No. 25 Diplocliila oUusa ? Lee. No. 28 

 D. impressicollis,TL)e]. No. 29 D. luiicoUis, Leo. No. 

 26 Pterosticlius stygicus, Say. No. 47 Ft. mutus, Say. No. 

 54 Pt. desidiosus, Lee. No. 27 Paciliis chahites, Say. No. 

 32 Olerus nigripes , Say. No. 33 Tricliius affinis, G. &P. 

 No. 34 Mordella lineata f Melsh . No . 35 Avtlophiltis 

 semistriatus, Say. 'So- 3S Notoxus aiichora, Kentz. No. 

 Zl Gistela serlcea, Say . Ho. id Gyrinus analis, Say . No. 

 39 Dark variety of 40. No. 41 Cicindela npaiida, Dej. 

 No. 42 C. n-gutfata, Dej. Nos. 43 & 48 C. spleiidida, 

 Hentz. No. 44 Pacjie Iieros, Say. Nos. 45 & 53 Tenehrio 

 molitor,h. (Europe). No. 46 Parandra Irunnea, Fabr. 

 No. 49 Xylopimis anthraciiius, Knocli. No. 52 Platycerus 

 depressus, Lee. No. 55 Centrotdpus calcaratus,Fahl. No. 

 h6 Diaperis hydni, Fabr. No. 59. Nyctohatespeimsyltfanicus, 



Dej. Several of tlie above arrived in very bad 



order. If you will send good specimens of Nos. 9, 10, 

 19, 30 & 50, we will try and determine tliem specifically. 

 In a difficult genus. It is often impossible to determine 

 the species with the requisite precision from one or two 

 poor mutil.ated specimens. 



Tl»c Royal Horned-caterpillar — /;/■. D. L. 

 Pharos, Woodville, Miss. — In Vol. I, No. 12, (p. 230) 

 we said that this Insect "is quite scarce even as far 

 south as Bushberg, 3Io., Brighton, 111. , and St. Loui.s, 

 Mo." "VVe intended it to be inferred from this state- 

 ment, that still further south it was by no means so 

 scarce. You understand us to mean exactly the con- 

 trary, and inform us that it is not uncommonly met 

 with in your neighborhood in latitude 31" 30'. As 

 other.? may possibly make the same mistake, we think 

 it best to say here in so many words, what it was that 

 we really intended to be inferred from our language, 

 namely, that this insect is much more abundant in 

 soutliern than in northern latitudes within the limits of 

 the United States. 



Aquatic eg^g-s — W. 0. IJiskey, Minneapolis, Minn. — 

 The round white semi-transparent eggs, about 0.03 

 inch in diameter, which you found attached to a stick 

 of wood that had been underwater, are most probably 

 those of some air-breathing Water-snail, belonging to 

 such genera as Planorhis etc . They bear a striking re- 

 semblance, except in size, to those of the large brown 

 snail commonly met with in English gardens, which 

 last in the days of our boyhood we used often to find 

 in masses a little below the surface of the earth. "Wo 

 know of no aquatic insect that lays such eggs. 



Insects named — S. V. Summers, M. D., St. Louis, 

 Mo. — ^Your insects areas follows: No. 1, Mantis Caro- 

 lina, Linn. g. No. 2, ConorMnus sanguisuga, Le 

 Conte. (See Vol. 1, 'Fig. 74). No. 3, Glilmniiis seri- 

 ceus. Say. No. 4, Scarites suUerraneus, Fahr. No. 5, 

 Galerita janus, Fabr. No. 6, Patrohus longicornis. 

 Say. No. 7, PterosticTms sculptus, Lee. No. 8, 

 CJbauliognatlivs pennsylvanicus, De Geer. (See Vol. 1, 

 Fig 55). No. 9, Trox pwictatus. Germ. No. 10, Oodes 

 cvprmis, Chaudoir. No. 11, Agonoderus palUpes, Fabr. 

 No. 12, Hemlidium uifidulum, Dej. No. 13, Pla- 

 tynus S-ptmdatus, Lee. .No. 14, larva of No. 20. 

 No. 15, Dicdrocepliala mollipes, Say. No . 16, Arctia 

 [Spilosoina] virgmica, Fabr. No. 17, Hippodamia macu- 

 lata, DeGeer. (See Vol. I, Fig. 36.) No. 18, Dia- 

 Irofica vittata, Fabr. (See Vol. II, Fig. 19). No. 19, 

 Didbrotica T.i-ptmctata, Fabr. (See Vol. I, Fig. 168.) 

 No. 20, Hippodamia convergens, Guer. (See Vol. I, 

 Fig. 39.) No. 21, larva of .^™t(i s^ireosa, Dallas. No. 

 22, Tacliys pulcJiellus, Ferto. No. 23, Bemhidium near 

 i-maculatum, Linn. No. 24, ^ of No. 1. No. 25, 

 Haltica cucunwis, Harr. (See Vol. I, Fig. 19). No. 

 26, Tettigonia [Erythroneura] vitis, HaiT. We should 

 like further specimen.? of No. 23. 



Hair-tvorin or Hair-snake — E. H. King, West 

 Liheriy, Iowa. — The insect you send is the pupa of one 

 of our green Meadow Catydids — ijerhaps Orclielimum 

 ■ruhjare, Harris, perhaps Orcli. glaherrimmn, Burmeis- 

 ter; but as in this genus there are a great many closely 

 allied species, mo.st of which are either entirely undes- 

 cribed, or so briefly described that the same descrip- 

 tion will apply equally well to half a dozen distinct 

 species, we should not like to speak positively as to the 

 species to which your pupa belongs. "The long- 

 thread-like appendage ' ' issuing from the upper sur- 

 face of its abdomen, is a Hair-worm {Gordiws), re- 

 specting which parasitic genus see the Answer to E. 

 Baxter on page 57 of our First Volume. In a future 

 article we shall illustrate this remarkable group of in- 

 testinal worms, which has long been known to infest 

 difterent kinds of Catydids and Grasshoppers. The 

 liopular belief that these worms are animated horse- 

 hairs is, of course, a simple delusion. Thanks to your 

 careful pa<'king, the specimen reached us in excellent 

 order . 



Dahlia Stalk Borer — G. C. Broadhead, Pleasant 

 Hill, Mri. — The two worms which were found in Dahlia 

 stalks, and which " seem to have entered when quite 

 young and passed up, eating the pith out of the main 

 stem," are the common Stalk Borer (GoHyna nitela, 

 Guen.), which we have so often referred to and which 

 we figured twice in our first volume (Figs. 11 and 140.) 



IParsnip Worm — -Jno. Adams, Gray Corner, Maine. 

 — The worms found by you on Parsnip last July, were 

 the larvie of the common Asterias Swallow-tail (Papilio 

 Asteriiis, ('.ram.) 



ERRATA IN VOL. 2. MO. 1. 



On jiage 27 , column 2, line 13 from bottom , for " Gold 

 Gilt-beetle" read "Gilt Gold-beetle." On page 31, 

 column 1, line 30, for " Ctilopteron" read " Calop- 

 ieron." On page 31, column 1, line 41, for "No. 8 

 pin' ' read "No. 18 pin. ' ' On page 32, column 2, line 

 10 , for " GasferacautJia' ' read ' ' Gasteraeaniha. ' ' 



