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forms are likely to be eventually united. Prof. Schmitt has likewise 

 examples of A. viridis and of A. attenuatus Hald. taken in Elk Co., Pa. 

 A. malachiticus is reported to be taken in this vicinity by an amateur, who 

 keeps the locality secret, but I have seen none of his insects. 



O. Pseiiocerus {C/yttis) Supernotatus Say, Lee. Ed. II., 200 ; pini % 

 Lee, Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil., Ser. 2, II., 158. On a former occasion 

 (Can. Ent. XVI., 36) mention was made of having taken three examples 

 of this species hibernating in the folds of a Cecropia cocoon. December 

 9th I found a good sized nest of a yellowish paper wasp in a clump of 

 briar bushes, from which I took five of these beetles while examining its 

 structure ; they were stowed away quite snugly between the overlapping 

 layers of paper and doubtlessly would have passed the winter in com- 

 parative comfort. Hibernation, while perhaps an exceptional habit of 

 this species, would seem to be of not infrequent occurrence. The beetle 

 is found on currant, gooseberry, wild and cuhivated ; wild grape, Virginia 

 creeper, etc , abundantly from June onward ; the larvae live in the diseased 

 or dead limbs of these and hibernate in various stages of their growth, 

 developing during the summer. Mr. A. Fitch named it the " currant 

 borer" and gave a detailed account of it in Rep. III., 98 105, but 1 have 

 observed no mention of it receiitly by economic entomologists. 



Chromatia {Cistela) Antcena Say. This p]!cciis \\as described by 

 Mr. Say from specimens taken west of the Mississippi, and appears to be 

 rare. An insect assigned to this name, occurs sparingly along the western 

 slope of the AUeghanies from Virginia to New York and Canada, though 

 it is scarcely recognizable by Say's description, which must have been 

 made from very differently coloured specimens with the head and palpi, 

 the elytra and feet, black — the rest sanguineous. The eastern examples 

 have the head piceous black with the clypeus and mouth parts rufous, ex- 

 cept the last joint of maxillary palpus, black 3 thorax and all the under 

 side rufous ; elytra brownish or piceous black, with the suture and first 

 interval, epipleura, margin and external interval, rufous. As stated by 

 Say, the striae are closely, minutely punctured and the intervals finely 

 transversely rugose. 



This species I have through the kindness of Prof. Schmitt, who takes 

 many good things at St. Vincent, rarely occurring here, though distant 

 less than 40 miles. He allows me to say that he took in July large num- 

 bers of Ptomophagus parasitus from an ant's nest he was investigating, 

 and in which at the depth of two and a-half feet he found a chipmunk's 



