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collect at Sydney, Cape Breton, N. S., several beetles which ultimately 

 proved to belong to this species. A short time after I obtained them I 

 sent one to a correspondent in the United States and he named it Tri- 

 colepis alternata (?). Last winter, in trying to get my Rhyncophora in 

 better shape, I found that some mistake had been made, and after a care- 

 ful examination of the beetles I decided that they must be B. Schxnherri, 

 and my finding was at once confirmed by Dr. Hamilton when I sent him 

 a specimen. The beetles were found under logs or drift wood, chiefly 

 near the " ballast heaps," and were well covered with scales, as compared 

 with the one mentioned by LeConte, but not so bright and fresh looking 

 as specimens I have recently obtained from England. I made a hurried 

 search for it in September last in the same locality, but did not find any. 

 The " ballast heaps," I may add, are formed by vessels discharging their 

 ballast of stone, earth, etc., before loading coal, and many species of in- 

 troduced plants are found on, or about them. 



Agasphcerops nigra Horn has been several times recorded, but the 

 specimens appear to have been old rubbed ones. A specimen in my col- 

 lection from Vancouver Island shows it to be a more striking beetle than 

 the description indicates. The elytra are ornamented with interrupted 

 irregular bands of pearly and golden scales intermixed, and roughly form- 

 ing humeral and apical lunules. The anterior and lateral margins of the 

 prothorax are also irregularly clothed, and patches occur on the head and 

 ventral surface. The style of ornamentation is similar to that of Hormorus 

 undulatus Uhler. which LeConte (classification p. 439) states to be more 

 ornate. 



Otiorhynchus sulcatus Fab. was found by me at Sydney in August, 

 1884, and again in September last. It is apparently quite abundant, as 

 at several points I found fine fresh specimens under boards, etc. 

 Provancher states that this beetle is common in Quebec, and adds, " we 

 think that its larva lives in haws, as we have nearly always found it 

 beneath hawthorns and apple trees." 



Otiorhy?ichus sp. With the preceding species I found at Sydney, 

 both in 1884 and 1890, specimens of a blackish Otiorhynchus which has 

 not been identified. It is in all probability a European species, but does 

 not agree with any I have received, and has not been recognized by 

 Dr. Hamilton, or by Dr. Horn, to whom he showed a specimen. It is 

 larger, rougher and blacker than O. ovatus Linn, which, curiously, 

 appears to be very rar^ at Sydney, as I only obtained one specimen. 



