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NEW FOOD-PLANT OF RHODOBANUS 13-PUNCTATUS. 
This insect, which we mentioned in our Third Missouri Report as bur- 
rowing into the stalks of the common Cockle-burr (Xanthium strumarium), 
and in our general index to the Missouri reports as having been reared 
from Helianthus in Texas, and afterward noted in the first yolume of 
InsEcT LIFE as infesting the stems of various weeds, including Ambro- 
sia and the Thistle, has been found by Mr. C. M. Weed to breed in the 
stems of the Cupweed, Silphium perfoliatum. Mr. Weed published this 
note in the American Naturalist for December, 1890, and although this 
notice is late, the matter is of too much interest to be overlooked. 
LIVING LARV.& IN THE EAR. 
Popular Science News for September 9, 1891, quotes from an otological 
journal to the effect that a case has recently been recorded in which a 
farmer removed a fly which had crawled into his ear and two days 
later was seized with an intense pain, accompanied by bleeding. Two 
days later he sought medical advice, and on syringing 15 living larvee 
were removed. The meatus was found to be much reddened, swollen, 
and bleeding, but the drum was intact. The insect was probably the 
Serew Worm, Lucilia macellaria. 
BAD WORK BY YELLOW JACKETS. 
An Associated Press dispatch from Indianapolis, Ind., dated Septem- 
ber 25, states that Mr. Riley Smart, a prominent young man of Mon- 
roe Township, of that State, had just died from the effects of being stung 
in forty-two different places by Yellow Jackets. On the same day the 
Washington papers contained an account of a serious accident to Prot. 
A. K. Spence, dean of the faculty of Fiske University, and his wife, 
from a Yellow Jacket stinging their horse as they were driving in the 
suburbs of this city. The frightened animal plunged over a bridge and 
crushed the professor and his wife beneath the vehicle. Their injuries, 
while very serious, have not as yet resulted fatally. 
DEATH FROM A BEE STING. 
Well-authenticated accounts of death from the sting of the honey 
bee are sufficiently rare to render any positive instance of interest. 
The Hvening Star, of this city, contained on August 25 a circumstan- 
tial account of the death of Mr. William H. Danley, a strong man of 
vigorous constitution, who carried the mail from Tivoli, a village of 
Pennsylvania, to the Williamsport and North Branch Railway station, 
from the sting of an ordinary honey bee upon one of his fingers. The 
hand at once commenced swelling, and in 10 minutes after being stung 
the man fell into a comatose condition and died before aid could be 
summoned, only 15 minutes having elapsed from the time he was stung. 
