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what bent, chitinous funnel, open at the end. This opening prob- 
ably connects with one of the trachee of the beetle larva. The 
Dipterous larva lies in this sac with its abdomen reaching within 
the funnel. Puparia of the parasite were found in the ground 
and produced in July the perfect fly, which proved to be Fhore- 
stoma latum Egger. Dr. Brauer describes and illustrates the 
anatomical details of this larva. 
our North American Dexidz the habits of only one species 
have been recorded thus far, viz., the parasite on Diabrotica 
vittata, described by Dr. Henry Shimer (Am. Nar., V, p. 219) as 
Melanosphora diabrotice, a species which is deub:fully referred in 
Osten-Sacken’s catalogue to the genus Melanophora Meigen, as 
the figure and description do not permit of positive determination. 
NORTHERN LOCALITIES FOR SOUTHERN BUTTERFLIES.—In the 
November number of the Naruratist, Mr. Smith, of Natick, 
Mass., reports Mr. Scudder as saying that the most northern 
locality in which Junonia cænia has been found is the southern 
extremity of Maine, near Portsmouth, N. H. One example of 
this species was captured last summer by a gentleman from Ban- 
gor, in woods about four miles south of Orono. It was as large 
and nice as the average of a large lot captured in Florida. Chi- 
onobas jutta has also been taken for several years in a bog in the 
same vicinity. I think this is the first time it has been reported 
within the limits of the United States.—Mrs. C. H. Fernald, 
Orono, Me. 
INSECT-LIFE AMoNG SpipER Eccs.—At the annual meeting of 
the San Diego, Cal., Natural History Society, a letter from Miss 
Rosa Smith was read referring to the. discovery of the mature 
male of Zilla rosa, a beautifully colored California spider, and the 
Insect life observed in the egg cocoons of Epeira atrata, the spe- 
cies having been determined by Dr. H. McCook, of Philadelphia. 
hey are (1) a small ant; probably referable to Solenopsis and 
doubtless feeding on the spider eggs; (2) larve of a Dermestid 
beetle (Attagenus pellio ?), apparently feeding on the refuse mat- 
ter in the nest; (3) a true parasite of the Epeira eggs belonging 
to Pezomachus, having a secondary parasite in an undetermined 
Chalcid fly, which in its turn proved to be infested by a still 
Smaller species of the same family. 
ALETIA XYLINA IN THE NortH.—Yesterday in my little garden 
I took a wonderfully fresh example of Aletia argillacea, and two 
Years ago, when in Toronto, I found the insect extremely com- 
mon on fences, &c., in the streets of the city. I found one speci- 
men on the wall of a garden, with its wings still damp and unde- 
veloped, having just emerged from the chrysalis. I looked all 
round the garden but found no Malvaceous plants except a large 
bush of Abutilon and the little wild mallow, Malva rotundifolia. 
Ay. Edwards, New York, Oct. 23, 1883. 
