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Adults of Phymatodes Dirnidiatus Kirby Were Submitted to the Canadian Forest Insect Survey (Vernon Office) in Mid Julp, 10-L3, L LXXVI THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST 21 1 THE CERAMBYCID BEETLE, PHYMATODES DIMIDIATUS, IN CEDAR STRUCTURAL TIMBERS Adults of Phymatodes dirnidiatus Kirby were submitted to the Canadian Forest Insect Survey (Vernon office) in mid Julp, 10-L3,lry Ran,ger J. MacDonald of the British Columbia Forest Service, Creslon. He reporled tile beetlcs to have emerged in nun~bersin late April Crom thc 4- bv 6-inch cedar (Tltuja j11ir.utn Ilnn) uprigh~s or Rlr. Hollaus' 11o11se in Camp Lister, R. C. The timbers arc3 presl~tneclto have bcen in tested hcfnrc hcing placecl in the building. Some beetles en~crgedinride thc house aftcr they had gnarvcrl t hroug-11 a layer of tarred building paper and a !,$-inch tl~icklie~~nf "Gy l~roc"gypsum wall-bod; others went outri-ard tl~mught;u-red ppcr and cedar silinglcs. Spencer {Ent. Soc. Brit. Col., Proc. 2'i:i-rl. 19.71) ha5 rccorded adult5 nf the same 5pecies emerging from [Douglas?] fir beams in a house a1 Chilcotin, B. C. Hugh B. Leech, Vernon, B. C. DEATH OF GUSTAF FALKENSTROM The late G. Falkenstrom of Stockholm, Swcden, specialisl on dytiscid and haliplid water beetles, published over thirty articles, several of which are of immediate interest to American stutlci~ts. The Collowing nole on his life iq taken from an obituary by Dr. N. Kemner, "Gustaf Falkenstrorn och hans sam- lingar, som nu donerats till Entomologiska Inst itutionen i Lund" (Gustsaf Falkenstrom and his collection, now donated to the Entomological Institution in Lund) , Opuscula Entornologica 7:108-1 11, with portrait. I am indebted to Per Brinck of Lund for a copy of the obituary and to Mr. F. Godber of Vernon, B. C., for a translation from the original Swedish. Gustaf Adolf P. Falkenstrijm was born on November 13, 1867, at Hjule- herg i Arsradr, S~veclen,and died in StacUohn on August 15, 1942. After the usual militar? ~ervicchc rntcrcd the University of Lund and in a few years hcgan a course in medicine, but hecame more and more interested in nature stud!. Taking hi? rinal esatr~inationpin May, 1898, he went the same year to I he Zoologiska Tnslitur ioncn, where he was associated with Aug. Quenner- ~tedt,Darid Eerg~ndallland C. G. 1'11amson. At that time he studied echino- derms. Then Simon Rengtsson, ~tnrlerwhom he worked, recommended entom- ology to him. In 1899 he enered the services of an employers' association in Halsing- borg. Iie remained with it ilntil 1918, finxllr. lr~rominga clirector of thc or- ganization: his dnties took him trl ~Ifechief plares in Sweden. In 1918 he re- tired on a pension and it was thcn that he hc,gan hls work on aquatic beetles, publi~hinghis first paper in l!E!O. His genius showed in the excellent life- Ilistor!* sti~dirsoC vxrintts Srverli\li wain- bectles, many of which 11e reared in his laboratory. Two ta~onol~iicartidcs of partic~~larinterest to American students are: 1938-Some animal species-crossings in nature with analyses of similar ones in cultures, together with some fundamental questions discussed. Genetica 20:217-284. 193%-Reitrag zur Revision einiger Dytisciden-Gattungen, vor allem Deronectes Sharp und Urenn'l~rcr Seidlitz. Ent. Tidskr. 60:69-101. Roth papers are fully illustrated. Hugh B. Leech, Vernon, B. C. Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. IP address: 170.106.202.226, on 03 Oct 2021 at 04:26:07, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.4039/Ent76211-10.
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