1070 General Notes. 
D. S. Kellicott said that he felt sure that his obse 
his observations far enough to discover that all the 
scudderiana fed at first in the terminal leaves. Late int 
habits of Helia americalis, which he finds in the larva tate | 
feed in the nests of Formica rufa. So far as he knew this 
the first Lepidopterous insect known to develop in ants’ 
[To be continued. | 
ENEMIES OF THE EGG-PLANT.—As an evidence that th 
ance of Cassida texana and Doryphora juncta on the 
neither were large plants. Besides the twenty-three 
found on one of the plants four clusters of unhatched € 
perfect insects of the zerana and thirteen larve. 
THe PERIODICAL CICADA IN SOUTHEASTERN MASSACH 
While driving across “the plains” of the central parts 
tha’s Vineyard, Mass., in the last few days of June of th 
observed large numbers of the periodical Ci (Cicada 
decim). The scrub-oaks, which here cover the whol 
were literally alive with them. Specimens of twigs 
eggs were secured, as also of the insects themselves 
must have been mistaken,” [4e p. 71. | 
The insects were confined to a narrow belt not © 
or three-quarters of a mile in width and of unknow g 
posssibly this may acccunt for the fact that the gv 
to above failed to elicit any knowledge of a p 
