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ten ed, flesh color, sometimes brick red, and ringed and homy in sub- 

 stance. It seems like an insect in transition somewhat. The exnded 

 sap is evidently its work. It is very active, and may be one cause of 

 the death of terminal twigs and branohlets occurring late in the season. 



Miss Wolsey was requested to search the pines early in June for the 

 mature insect, the features of which were given, that positive identifi- 

 cation might be made of the larvte. Heavy rains had meantime 

 occurred, and it was thought that they may have destroyed the insect 

 in its immature stages or driven away the imagoes. 



Chauliodes pectinicornis (Linn.). 

 The Comb-horned Fish-fly. 



(Order Netjroptera: Fam. Sialidje.) 



Hemerobius pectinicornis Linn.: Amoen. Acad., vi, 1763, p. 412; Syst. Nat., i, 

 pars ii, xii edit., 1767, p. 911.1. 



H emerobius pectinicornis Fabr. : Syst. Ent., 1775, p. 309.1. 



Semblis pectinicornis Fabr.: Spec. Ins., 1781, i, p 386.1. 



Sembris pectinicornis Fabr.: Mant. Ins., i, 1787, p. 244.1. 



Chauliodes pectinicornis Latr. : Gen. Crust. Ins., iii, 1807, p. 198. 



Hagen: Synop. Neurop. N. A., 1862, p. 189 (descrip. imago and distribution); 

 in Proc. Ent. Soc. Phila., ii, 1863, p. 181 (mention.; in Proc. Bost. Soc. 

 Nat. Hist., xv, 1873, p. 29 (in Harris Collection). 



Walsh-Riley: in Amer. Ent., i, 1869, p. 245 (characters of imago). 



Packard: Guide Study Ins., 1869, p. 607; Entomol. Begin., 1888, p. 87 (men- 

 tion). 



Pettit: in Canad. Entomol., vi, 1874, p. 45 (in Canada). 



Moody : in Psyche, ii, 1877, p. 52 (description and habits of larva). 



Riley: in Canad. Ent., xi, 1879, pp. 97, 98; in Proc. Amer. Assoc. Adv. Sc. 

 for 1878, July 1879, xxvii, pp. 286, 287 (eggs and features of Chauliodes 

 larvae, incl. this species?). 



Comstock: Introduc. Entomol., 1888, p. 220 (mention). 



Banks: in Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, xix, 1892, p. 357 (cited). 



The illustrations of Plate 1, from drawings made by Mr. J. Bridgham, 

 are from a larva of the above-named insect, which was received from 

 Mr. "W. C. Hitchcock, of Tiashoke, N. Y. It had been taken from a 

 pond in that vicinity early in March, from a hole cut in the ice. It 

 was the only specimen of the kind observed, and none others could be 



found, although search was made for them in compliance with a request 



for additional examples for rearing. 



