. Annual report of the Trustees of the State Museum of Natural History for the year ... Science; Museums. Report of the State Entomologist. 261 forming the walls of an otit-house. They may have been of Mallota harda, to which they bore a resemblance, but they could not be posi- tively identified, for unfortunately the examples sent had been put in alcohol, and none had been retained alive for rearing. *Anthrenus SCROPHULARM3 {Linn.).—The carpet-beetle occurred abun- dantly on flowers of SpircBa, in Washington Park, Albany, on June second. Anthrenus varius (Fabr.) was associated with it in abou
. Annual report of the Trustees of the State Museum of Natural History for the year ... Science; Museums. Report of the State Entomologist. 261 forming the walls of an otit-house. They may have been of Mallota harda, to which they bore a resemblance, but they could not be posi- tively identified, for unfortunately the examples sent had been put in alcohol, and none had been retained alive for rearing. *Anthrenus SCROPHULARM3 {Linn.).—The carpet-beetle occurred abun- dantly on flowers of SpircBa, in Washington Park, Albany, on June second. Anthrenus varius (Fabr.) was associated with it in about equal numbers. June eighth, numbers were taken by Mr. William Beuttenmiiller of New York city, on flowers of parsnip. July twenty-first, twenty-five of the larvae, of different sizes, were received from a residence in Schoharie, N. Y., where they abounded. August ninth. Prof. H. M. Seely, of Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vt., sent what he believed to be the carpet-beetle, as it was found in large numbers associated with the A. scrophularice larvse when search- ing for the latter in July. It proved, however, to be the Otiorhynchus ligneus, which appears of late to have domesticated itself within many dwellings (see Second Beport on the Insects of New York, 1885, pp. 51, 52). November second, half-grown larvae and an imago were taken in my house, the latter from a window curtain. Alaus oculatus (Linn.). —? As this large snapping-beetle — the largest that occurs with us of its family, is often sent for name, the accompanying figure and brief notice of it are given as aid in its recognition. It is an inch and a half long, with ribbed wing-covers spotted with white; its thorax one-third the entire length of the insect, largely covered • with white scales like a white powder, and bear- ing centrally on each side, a large oval, velvet-black spot ringed with white. Its specific name is given to it from the marked resemblance of the two ,-1 . , , p Pig. 58. —The owl beetle
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