384 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST 



Ips confluentiis Say. The necessity of using care in passing 

 by supposcdh' familiar insects was well illustrated when I recently 

 examined a botlle of alcoholic specimens taken at South Paris, 

 July 10, 1914, and found ni\ first specimen of this species. 1 had 

 carelessly scraped it out of the pitch on the end of a log in the mill 

 yard for /. san^Hinolentiis, but with a vague feeling that there 

 was something unfamiliar about it. 1 wonder how many rarities 

 I ha\e discarded! 



Georyssiis pnsillus Lee. Three specimens were taken on a 

 sand bar in the Little Androscoggin Ri\er at South Paris. June 

 17, 1912. 



Limnichus pumtatiis Lee. On June 1"), 1907, while I was 

 sitting by a spring in Wales trying to reduce my temperature 

 and satisfy my thirst by keeping at the saturation point, I noticed 

 many of these small insects \er\- slowly moving about on the sandy 

 mud along the tin\- stream that ran from the spring. I captured 

 all in sight and started out more b\- throwing water on the bare 

 places. 



Tharops nificornis Say. On June 23, 1910, two were taken 

 b\- beating at Monmouth, and on the 2oth I found a few more 

 resting on the ends of beech sticks in piles of cordwoorl in a forest 

 clearing at Wales. 



Alans myops Fab. This species has been taken a number of 

 times on logs at Paris and Monmouth, while at the latter place 

 it was once found feeding on the sap that oozed from a red oak 

 stump. Several years ago I took a couple of Alaus larva' under 

 the bark of a white pine stump at Monmouth about June 25. 

 The larger one was two and one-half inches long and apparently 

 full grown. The\' were put rnto a box with twenty or thirty large 

 ant larvic and half a dozen Elater larva*, and at the end of three 

 days only the large larva remained. A second lot of larva* disap- 

 peared in the next two days, and the survi\ing Alaus was brought 

 to Framingham, Mass. At odd times during the fall more larva? 

 were put in the box which was a tin one about ten inches high and 

 four by eight inches in the other dimensions; it was more than half 

 full of dirt, rotten wood, and mould. On October 7th the larva was 



