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LIVING BEETLE LARVZ IN THE INTESTINES OF A CHILD. 
Dr. G. Sandberg gives an account in the Entomol. Tidskrift, 1890, 
(pp. 77-80) of the occurrence of living coleopterous larve in the intes- 
tines of his 10-year old son. After the boy had been complaming for 
more than two years of colic, pain in his breast, headache, and nausea, 
more serious Symptoms manifested themselves, especially at night. He 
would start from his sleep shrieking and delirious, with subsequent head- 
ache, prostration, and exhaustion. The use of vermifuges and the con- 
sequent excretion of small pin worms” brought about no improvement 
in his condition, and this was not accomplished until recourse was had to 
stronger purgatives and the subsequent expulsion of two full-grown 
Elaterid larve, about 2 centimetres in length, of the species Agrypnus 
MUTINUS. 
NEW BEE-FLIES. 
In the West American Scientist for September, 1891, Mr. D. W. Co- 
quillett publishes descriptions of two new genera and three new species 
ot Bombyliidz of the group Paracosmus. All are described from cap- 
tured specimens taken in California. They are Amphicosmus n. gen.; 
elegans h. sp.; Metacosmus 1. gen.; exilisn. sp.; Paracosmus insolens 0. 8. 
In the August number of the same journal he describes two additional — 
species of the genus Lordotus and gives a synoptical table of the eight 
species known to inhabit the United States. He also adds a descrip- 
tion ot Texophora vaste and gives a revised table of the species of this 
genus. 
A BARK-LOUSE FROM ANTS’ NESTS. 
Mr. J. W. Douglas publishes in No. 21 of his Notes on some British 
and Exotic Coccide (Entomolgist’s Monthly Magazine, second series, vol. 
II) a description of Orthesia occidentalis n. sp., from specimens collected 
by Mr. T. D. A. Cockerell at West Cliff, Colo., at an altitude of 7,700 
feet, In the nests of an ant of the genus Myrmica. This occurrence is ot 
decided interest, as no species of Orthesia has heretofore been found in 
such a location, nor does any species feed upon the roots of plants. 
CEBALUS PUGNAX AN ENEMY OF GRASSES. 
Under the above title Mr. H. Garman, of Lexington, Ky.. gives (Psyche, 
April, 1891, p. 61), a statement of his observation of the habits of @balus 
pugnax, which shows that this insect, hitherto considered as predaceous, 
is also, and perhaps generally, a vegetable feeder, affecting particularly 
the grasses of the genus Setaria and Panicum. He describes the eggs 
and habits of the insect and refers te the statement in the fourth re- 
port of the U. 8. Entomological Commission, p. 97, that the species has 
been observed attacking the Cotton Worm. The facts brought out by 
Mr. Garman indicate for this species what is already known for allied 
Pentatomids, as for instance Nezara hilaris Say, namely, that they are 
both carnivorous and herbivorous. 
