232 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



LUCANU.S MASAMA, LEG. 



Sir, — I found this evening (28th June, 1899,) a male specimen of 

 Lticanus Masafna (Lee), on the ground at the foot of a dead cotton tree. 

 Investigating the place, I noticed several large holes around the tree, and 

 discovered in one of them a pair of beetles, which were evidently intend- 

 ing to mate. At the foot of another cotton tree stump near by, a male 

 was crawling slowly on the ground ; another male came flying and 

 alighted, and a short search was rewarded by the discovery of a female, 

 hidden in a hole. Another dead cotton tree yielded three males (two of 

 them crawling and one flying) and one female, at the foot of the tree on 

 the ground. 



It seems that the metamorphosis of the larva to the adult Lucanus 

 masama takes place underground, the female probably not leaving the 

 ground ; whereas the males fly around in search of the opposite sex. I 

 noticed some large holes in the trees under which the specimens were 

 found, and if these holes were made by the larva of L. masama, then the 

 above ventured hypothesis is wrong, and the females simply hide in the 

 ground, after having completed their metamorphosis in the substance of 

 the tree, and seek the ground possibly for the deposition of their eggs. 



I would be greatly obliged to any reader of this notice for the life 

 history of the other N. American species of Lucanus. 



A. Fenves, M. D., 



Santa Fe., New Mexico. 



ACKNOWLEDGMENT. 



Sir, — I desire, on behalf of the Entomological Society of Ontario, 

 to make public acknowledgment of its mdebtedness to Mr. C. T. 

 Ramsden, of Santiago de Cuba, for many curious and interesting entomo- 

 logical specimens of various kinds, his own collecting in that now famed 

 locality. A more extended notice may be taken of some of them at a 

 future time. J. Alston Moffat, Curator. 



The Rev. C. J. S. Bethune, editor of this magazine, begs to announce 

 that he has resigned his position as Head Master of Trinity College 

 School, Port Hope, which he has held for the last twenty-nine years, and 

 that his address, after August 24th, will be 500 Dufferin Avenue, London, 

 Ontario. 



Mailed August nth, 1899. 



