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vine, melon, morning-glory and clover. From these experiments 
and from Professor Forbes’s investigations, we might feel inclined 
to doubt the correctness of Mr. Taylor’s statement were it not for 
some field observations made last year by Mr. Theodore Pergande 
which tend to confirm those made by Mr. Taylor. 
Mr. Pergande, while searching for injurious insects on corn in 
the vicinity of Washington, on August 22d, saw several imagos 
and larvz of this species, actually eating into the soft kernels of 
the ears. The beetles were almost entirely within the nearly 
empty kernels, and it could plainly be observed that they were 
eating. Upon removing them the most careful examination failed 
to discover any other insect in the kernel. The larve were found 
in similar situations actively engaged in eating the substance of 
the soft seeds. 
Crornes Motus OBSERVED IN THE UNITED Srares.— There 
has always been confusion and uncertainty in referring to the cor- 
rect names of the clothes moths found in this country, and we 
are glad to note the fact that Professor C. H. Fernald, in the Cana- 
dian Entomologist for September, 1882, pp. 166-169, has given us 
a concise account of our: species based upon a large collection 
brought together from all parts of the country and sent to Lord 
Walsingham for comparison with European species. It appears 
that we have no native clothes moths, the three species observed 
in this country being identical with European species. They are 
as follows: st. Tinea pellionella Linn., the case-making and most 
destructive species; 2nd., Tinea tapetzella L.; the gallery-making 
Species, rare in this country ; 3rd., Tinea biselliella Hummel, which 
is also not a case-making species. The intricate synonymy of the 
first and third species which have been redescribed by American 
authors under several names is given in full by Professor Fernald 
who also describes the imagos and gives some biological notes 
on the species, 
Lepipoprerous Larva AND YeLLow Fiowers.—The larve 
of Heliothis armigera seems to have a partiality for yellow flowers. I 
found some feeding on the flowers of the evening primrose at Biarritz 
in October, last year; failing that, they readily took to honey- 
suckle flowers. When I brought them to England and offeredthem 
a choice of chrysanthemums (the only flower I had at the time), 
preferred the yellow ones, andthrove upon them. One day 
be ve them a red chrysanthemum, and they would not eat that, 
t ate one of their number; they had shown no tendency to 
eng alism on the journey when the honeysuckle was not 
8. M1. S. Fenkyns, in the Entomologist (London), Fanuary, 
7983 (vol. xvi., p. 23). 
rohit on Muritra (occidentalis L.)—From early boyhood I 
“ave Occasionally seen this insect, but perhaps in all—in over fifty 
yfars—not more than fifteen or twenty of those of large size. 
are known as “cow-killers” or “cow-stingers,” and in 
