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764 The American Naturalist. [August, 
Food Habits of Coccinella convergens.—Since the publica- 
tion of Prof, Forbes’s paper upon ‘‘ The Food Relations of the 
Carabidze and Coccinellide ’’ various obververs have found that at 
least one species (Megilla maculata) of the family Coccinellide is a 
vegetable feeder. 
I have noticed another species, Coccinella convergens, doing con- 
siderable damage to cabbage plants this season. The first noticed 
cabbage thus eaten was sprayed with Paris green, and upon examina- 
tion the day following several dead specimens of C. convergens were 
found on the ground under the plant. Since then I have noticed 
others eating the leaves of several cabbage plants.—Howard Evarts 
Weed, Mississippi Agricultural College. 
Transformations of Coleoptera.—Mr. Wm. Beutenmiiller, of 
the American Museum of Natural History, has lately published in the 
Journal of the New York Microscopical Society (Vol. VII., pp. 1-52), 
a Bibliographical Catalogue of the Described Transformations of 
North American Coleoptera, for which he deserves the thanks of his 
entomological brethren. In arrangement and style it is similar to Mr. 
Henry Edward’s catalogue of Lepidoptera. Three hundred and 
ninety-six species are included in the list,—a striking commentary 
upon the paucity of our knowledge of the immature stages of this 
great order. 
ARCHEOLOGY AND ETHNOLOGY.: 
The International Congress of Anthropology and Pre- 
historic Archeology of Paris, 1889.—( Continued from page 679). 
Sixth Question: ‘* Firstly, The Human Remains of the Quaternary 
Epoch Discovered Within the last Fifteen Years; and secondly, The 
Proper Ethnic Elements Belonging to the Men of the Different Ages 
of Stone, Bronze, and Iron.” 
The discussion of this question was opened by Monsieur Fraipont, 
of the University of Leige, Belgium, who had been the discoverer of 
the celebrated cavern of Spy, on the river Meuse, in Southern Bel- 
gium. He exhibited the skulls and bones which he had there found, 
and said that these were the most complete representatives now known 
of the race of Canstadt, as has been classified by MM. de Quatre- 
fages and Hamy. ‘This man was contemporaneous with the mammoth 
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