Toward the end of August and early in September many acorns, with their cups attacl'red, fail frorn the oaks and lie beueath the parent trees. When first they reach the ground they look perfect, but directly the Ba/anintts larr':e begin to bore out through the cups and enter the ground, as is their habit. \Yhen they escape from hickory-nuts, the larvae of these long-snouted beetles choose the tltin places betrveen the ridges, rvhich are so characteristic of tlie shell-bark ntits, fol instance, and the easiest $'ay otlt from an acorn must be thlough its base and cup. The larv:e, however', may be cut short at this part of theii development, for they are mr.rch sought after by squirrels, rvho seem to esteem. them highly.The problem that presents itself to the squirrel is to tell which acorrrs contain larve. He nrakes, considering the conditions, the sinrplest and most direct test. He bites a smail part of the cup off so as to expose the base of the acorn, and tl-ren punctures it slightly. He can, no doubt, tell very quicklv by tl're odour if there is a iarva lvithin, and if s'-rch proves to be the case, the hoie is enlarged and the much-desired morsel secrtred. I have found on Staten Island scores of the large acorns of the red oak that had been treated as melltioned above, and ou another occasion manv scarlet-oak acorns that had been treated in the same way, aii of r'vhich goes to show horv enterprising and intelligent the squirrels really are.Another example of the insect-eating habit of a squirrel was observed at l-akehurst, N. J., where beneath a pitch-pine tree, mid the scattered remaius of many cones, from tvhich the seeds had been extracted, were fonnd a number of Clisiocamla cocoolls. They had been brought from a near-by wild-cherry tree, that had been badly eaten by these larvae, and still contained sone of their old tents. Each cocoon had been opened either at the end or side, and the pupa extracted. Certainiy in this instarrce the squirrel did a good act, and also showed his liking for insects.On the zgth of June, sorne years ago, I saw a chipmunk catch a moth, pull off its wings, and e:it it. I have often fed captive gray and flying squirrels bits of rarv meat, so their fondness for Balaninuslarvn and otl-rer insects is not to be wondered at, but rvhat is chiefly of interest is the intelligence shorvn iu mahing their captures. January, r9o7

The cocoons made by the larvae fed on P. virginiana were more tan-colored than those of the larvae fed on _P. serotina, which were very dark brown, almost blackish.

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Resolutions 101 The Entomological Society of America desires to place upon record its appreciation of the high services to entomology rendered by the late Mr. Lyman and its sense of the loss sustained through his untimely and tragic death. It is, therefore, ordered that the foregoing memorial be inscribed upon the minutes of the Society as a tribute to their late member and fellow.