It is interesting to note that there is in the collection of the Department of Agriculture a specimen of _Amphiscepa bivittata_ Say, which bears, in the position described above, a parasitic larva similar to that described by Mik. It left its victim and spun a white cocoon, but we failed to rear the imago. It is probably the larva of a Gonatopus, and possibly that of the only described American species of the genus, _Gonatopus contortulus_ Patton (_Can. Ent._, xi p. 64). * * * * * SPECIES OF OTIORHYNCHIDAE INJURIOUS TO CULTIVATED PLANTS--Of our numerous species of this family, we know the development and earlier stages of only one species, viz, Fuller's rosebeetle (_Aramigus Fulleri_[1]). A few other species have attracted attention by the injury caused by them as perfect insects. They are as follows: _Epicoerus imbricatus_, a very general feeder; _Pachnoeus opalus_ and _Artipus floridanus_, both injurious to the orange tree. Of a few other species we know the food-plants: thus _Neoptochus adspersus_ feeds on oak; _Pachnoeus distans_ on oak and pine; _Brachystylus acutus_ is only found on persimmon; _Aphrastus toeniatus_ lives on pawpaw (but not exclusively); _Eudiagogus pulcher_ and _rosenschoeldi_ defoliate the coffee-weeds (_Cassia occidentalis_ and other species of the same genus). Two very common species, _Pandeleteius hilaris_ and _Tanymecus confertus_, appear to be polyphagous, without preference for any particular plant. Very recently the habits of another species, _Anametis grisea_ Horn, were brought to our knowledge by Mr. George P. Peffer, of Pewaukee, Wis., who sent us specimens of the beetle accompanied by the following communication: "The larger curculio I send you is working around the roots of apple and pear trees, near the surface of the ground or around the union where grafts are set. I found fifteen of the larvae on a small tree one and a half inches in diameter. The beetle seems to lay its eggs just where the bark commences to be soft, near or partly under the ground. The larvae eat the bark only, but they are so numerous as to girdle the tree entirely in a short time."--_C. V. Riley_. [Footnote 1: Vide Annual Report Department of Agriculture, 1878, p. 257.]