Venables, E. P.

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46 E,(T01IOLOGlCAL Soc. Of BBITISH COrX1IIlIA, PHOC. (1946), VOL 43, FEll. 4, 1947 and the eqrh' years of the present one. The insects are well mounted, though low on the pins, in the English style; a few have faded badly. There are ahout 600 speci-mens, representing 220 species, a goodly DYSLOBUS LUTEUS AS A PEST OF RASPBERRY f Coleoptera: Curcu lionidae) .- In the SUl1llll e r of 190{i (dat e unknown) 1l1~' attention was called to the ragged cond ition of the lea\"es in a patch of cultiyated rasp-berries. The damage was distin ctive and did no t re-5t' ll1hJe th at usu ally caused by lepidopteroll s lan"ae. In -jured leaves had a ~ eri es of long nalTOw a reas, extend· ill~' from the margin to the midrib, e ntirely removed; the inter\'enin~ portions of th e leaf blade were quite undamaged. There were usually three or four of these il ljured areas on each side of the mid -rib thus producing a \'e ry uniform t) pe of da mage. It wa s confined to the large leaves near the bases of the canes. 1\'0 cause for the injury being apparent, it was COIl-clt,ded that t he insect responsible had desertell the plants. Howe,-er, a "isit after dark with the sta ble lantern revealed Illlillbe l's of the \.vee\,ils feeding- 011 the fo li age, which in some cases wa~ Wli te weigh ted down by them. During- the day t hey could be found hidden beneath the ~ilirfacc so il alld under th e dead lea yes arou nd the crow ll s of the ca nes. A speci men was re -('t utly identifiecl ;is Oyslobus lu(eus (Horn) by Peter C. Ting, who is .making a revis ional s tudy o f the species of this ~enliS. A simi lar type of leaf in jury has been oLsE'n'ed from ti me to time ill ra spberry plantations throl", h ollt the ,·alley. It is probable that this beetle is quite generall~' di st ributed, althou;sh owing- to it s noc · turnal h abits it has escaped detectioll and avoided plIllishment.-E. P. Yenables, Vernon, B.C. lIYDATICl'S MODESTliS AT CRESTON, B.C. (Coleop-Icra: Dytiscidae) .-In t he sum lll e r of 194" I reported t·) H. B. Leech th e capture of several Hydaticus modes-(us Sharp at Cres ton, D.C. He replied th,t he knew of olily 7 other British Columbia spe cilllen~-fl'oll1 6 different localities. l\'lille we re taken ill a pond of clear wate r left by the rampant spring flood s of the Goat }-~i\'er, with g-ra\'e l bottolll , no vegetation and only a sp rinkling of small drift wood. The pond was exploite(l throughout the ,ea501l (Au!!;. 12-Sept. 18) , with a catch of 38 specimens. Males predominated and 3 of the females were of the immaculate phase.-G. Stace Smith, Cre':'ton, B.C. BUPRESTIS CO:\FLl' ENTA IN BRITISH COLU:\IBIA (Coleoptera. Buprestidae) .- Buprestis confluenta Say has a wide distriblltion in North America, bein g re o ported from British Columbia to Ontario and from Ca liforni a 10 Indi a na . W. J. Chamberlin (Buprestidae of North Am er ic a. 18~6: 107) ciles Populus (remu-loides as its host tree. Two specimen s of this species, r are in British Col· uillbia, have been received at the Provincial lVluseum in recellt years . One example, taken at Lac la Hache, by George Forbes un July 18, 1943, ne ar a stand of Populus (remu loides and P. trichocarpa, apparently Con-:-;titutes the most northern record for the Province; the seconrl specime n was coHee ted b,Y- the \v ri tel' in 1\Ianning Park, between Hope and Princeton, 011 August . 15, 1945, as it was res ting on an old fir log by the rr'adside near a ~ro'.\'th of P. (richocarpa. numher considering that he caught them all in the confines of his own garden. Fif-teen or sixteen of the species I have not yet seen from other parts of the Nelson dis-triet.- H. R. FOXLEE. G. R. Hopping infurms me th at he has two speci-lllens from Midday Valley , one from Aspen Grove and one from Nicola Lake, while G. S tace Smith reports that he has taken two indi vidu als at Creston, on or nea r P. (richocarpa . H. B. Leech has taken the species at Salmon Arm \\-hile I und e rsta nd that G. J. Spencer h as additional HTords. From th e available facts this species seems to be p(lrtial to the fa irly dry interior plateau region of the Provillce.-George A. Hardy , Provincial Mu seum, Vi c-tNia, B ,C. A NOTE ON THE ANT CRICKET MYRMECOPHILA OREGONENSIS (Orthople ra: Gryllidae) .--On Decem-be .. 30, 1945, I found in a cell under loose bark on a fir log, what was evidelltly a new colony of carpenter allts, Campono(us Sr. It consisted of a queen, four small workers, and a clump of very young larvae. The interesting point is that along with these was a s", a ll , perhaps nymphal, ant cricket, Myrecophila ore-gonensis Bruner. This seems to indicate a remarkable in s tinct, inherent in these crickets, of attaching them· selves to alit colonies at a very early stage in their formatioll. I cut this log into sto ve wood and there was no establi~hed colony of ant.s therein. One other colony, Ill o re advanced in t h at the ,vorkers numbered possibly one hundred, was found a few feet aw ay . I could find no crickets with these.- Ri r harn Guppy, Wellington, B.C. BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BIOGRApHIES OF ENTOMOLO-GISTS. By M~thilde Carpenter. American Midland l\aturalist. 33 (1) :1-116. January, 1945. For sale by the A.M.N., Notre Dame, Indiana , price $L20.-The <luthor considers her paper to be a sort of second edi· tion, enlarged a nd up to date. of J. S. Wade's BIBLI-OGRAPHY OF ENTOMOLOGISTS, WITH SPECIAL HEFERENCE TO NORTH AMERICAN WORKERS (1928. Ann. En t. Soc. Amel·. 21 (3) :489·520). Cer-tainly it is enlarged, not only as to the number of persons li sted, hut a lso by the number of references per name. In additi on it includes all entomologists of all coun tri es and is intended to be complete through 19-1:1. The method of citing volume and p age is a s in the exalllple above. The given names when known, the years of birth an ti death are included for each person but a ll other data mu s t of course be obtained from the r efe ren ce s cited.--H. B. L. The Proceedings of the Entomological Society of British Columbia is published annually. Individual volumes may be had f or SOc. Special rates on sets. Address Secretary, Entomological Society of British Columhia, Box 308, Vernon, B.C. 

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Dyslobus luteus as a pest of raspberry (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)

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