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BEETLES (Coleoptera) 
Maryland. E, N. Cory (March 6): Hylot rapes Bajul us L. reported from houses m 
Daniels Park and Berwyn on March 6. Confused flour Beetle ( TriBolium 
confusum Duv.) reported as attacking' feedstuff at Sparrows Point on 
March 25. 
Mississippi. C. Lyle (March 24): The hlack carpet Beetle ( At ta^e^ picg^s 
Oliv.) sent in from Gloster in N 0 vemBer 1938 with information that it was 
feeding on feathers. Reports of injury to floors and walls of houses By 
death watch Beetle ( Xvletinus peltatu3 Harr.) received from Natchez in 
October 1933 and from Big Creek and Lexington in January. 
MISCELLANEOUS items 
Georgia. T. L. Bissell (March 22): Chrysonelids ( DiBolia Borea lig. Chevr. ) 
active on narrow-leaved plantain at Experiment on February 26. Much 
evidence of feeding and many eggs. On March 22 no Beetles were seen and 
no recent feeding evident. Larvae found in mines from one- to two-thirds 
grown. One luna moth ( Tropaea luna L* ) caught at light in Spalding County, 
central Georgia, on -March l4. 
Utah. G. E. Knowlton (March 20) : Gelechiid larvae ( Metzneria lappella L. ) 
reported on March l4 as infesting Burdock seeds at Ogden. (Det. By C. 
Heinrich. ) 
G. E. Knowlton and E. C. Harmston (March 24); Mourning- cloak Butterflies 
( Hamadryas antiopa L. ) oBserved in flight on several occasions recently. 
VETCH BRUCHID (Bruchus Brachial is Eahr. ) 
New Jersey. L. J. Bottimer (July 1938) J Of some 7»000 mature seeds of Eicia 
villosa . collected at Haddon Heights on July 19, July 26-27, and August 4, 
1937, approximately 42,4 percent produced adults of the vetch Bruchid and 
17.7 percent adult hrce nopterous parasites. Remaining seeds not examined. 
European BruchoBius mayri Masi constituted 96, 95, n.nd 85 percent, 
respectively, of the Hymenoptera reared from the three collections. 
Emergence of this species started Before July 19 and was heaviest during 
the first week of August. Very few reared after August 15. Handling the 
seed on April 1C, 1938, resulted in 2 more B. mayri emerging on April 22, 
1938, having hibernated within the seeds. Eupelmus allnyi French reared 
• in small numbers during August 1937 from Bruchid- infested seeds of the 
second and third collections only. Bruchid egg parasite, Us cana seni- 
funipennis Gir., first reared from eggs . of B. Brachial is during July 1937 
at Haddon Heights. Again obtained at this locality the first week of July 
1938. (Hymenoptera det. By A. 3. Gahan. ) 
