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found to be covered with small yellowish-white mites, and they 

 were carefully scraped off with a sharp knife. As a reward I 

 received a bite on the finger that penetrated the skin deep enough 

 to bring the blood. On August 25, more than a year after the 

 capture, I found in the box a very lively Alaus myops that measured 

 39 millimeters. From the same box there appeared Coscinoptera 

 dominicana and Pogonochenis mixtus, two fortunate individuals 

 that had escaped the maw of the savage Alans. It seems to me 

 that the larva of this insect is generally carnivorous instead of 

 lignivorous as has been often stated. The flattened head and 

 prominent mandibles are well fitted for searching out and seizing 

 larvae beneath the bark of dead and dying trees, or stumps from 

 which the bark has become loosened. 



Melanotus leonardi Lee. A number of specimens of this were 

 taken at Paris, June 15, 1910, on raspberry bushes that fringed 

 the bare, ledgy summit of a hill. 



Corymbites vernalis Hentz. Five or six specimens of this 

 were taken at Wales, June 16, 1907, on the flowers of the black 

 cherry (Primus serotina) and on June 12, 1909, a few more were 

 taken flying about a clump of Pruniis virginiana near the same 

 locality. 



Corymbites fallax Say. The only specimens I have ever seen 

 were the two that were beaten from small paper birch trees near 

 the summit of a hill at Paris, June 15, 1910. 



Hypnoidus melsheimeri Horn, a variety of pzctoralis Say, 

 exiguus Rand., and striatidus Lee. (?) were all taken on July 9, 

 1914, at the old fording place on the Little Androscoggin River 

 at South Paris. They were discovered by turning over the stones 

 that were half imbedded in the sandy soil and pulling up the bunches 

 of grass that grew among them. I do not think they were beneath 

 the stones but around the edges, from whence they were dislodged 

 into the cavity. All the specimens were found in one spot a few 

 feet in diameter and I could not find them anywhere else on the 

 beach, even in spots that appeared exactly the same. 



The noon sun had poured down its rays upon this spot and 

 the high banks and wooded shores had guarded it from every 



