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breeze until the stones were uncomfortably hot, but it was e\idently 

 a place of interest to these pretty little elaters. They exhibited 

 surprising activity coupled with the ability to disappear as if 

 by magic, even snapping themselves out of sight from the wetted 

 finger before it could be placed over the alcohol bottle, while 

 attempts at picking them up with the fingers or tweezers resulted 

 mainh' in pinches of sand. By drenching the spot with water 

 they become less lively but also less conspicuous. A single speci- 

 men of the \ariety of pectoral is was later swept from some weeds. 

 In 1913 I took exifiuus in numbers a few feet from this spot, under 

 the same circumstances. 



Limonius aurijer Lee. This elegant little creature was taken 

 once by beating maple sprouts in a forest clearing in Wales. June 

 24, 1910. 



Drapetes geminatits Say. One specimen was swept from Alnus 

 incana at Wales. Jul\ 9. 1913. and two more were taken at Mon- 

 mouth, Juh' 14, antl 17, 1914, in a cut over woodland full of slash 

 and raspberry bushes. One of these two was swept from rasp- 

 berry bushes and the other was crawling on a dead maple stub. 



Chrysobothris blanchardi Horn. At Paris (July 12 to 19, 

 1913) I took a number of this species on pine logs in the mill yard 

 and on the trunks of the white pines growing near the lumber 

 piles. I though they were trinervia until m>' returning home, when 

 I found they were the first series of blajichardi I had ever taken. 

 One specimen was taken in the same place on July 16, 1914. 



Agrilits politus Say. Several specimens of a dark purple- 

 cupreous were taken on Corylus leaves at Paris on July 9, 1914. 

 These are of the same colour variety as specimens taken on Corylus 

 in Mass., June 22, 1913, and June 21, 1914. 



Agrilus arcuatiis Say. A single specimen of this was taken 

 at the same time and place as the preceding species. This variety 

 was called coryli by Dr. Horn in his "Species of Agrilus of Boreal 

 America" page 297, and there seems to have been no description 

 of it other than these few words: "Var. coryli Horn. — Colour 

 uniformly bright brassy." The colour varies from a bright 

 brassy-cupreous to a dark purple-cupreous, and so closeh- do these 

 colour forms resemble those of politus that a careful examination 



