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To account for the rapid development it may be stated that these places 

 are inhabited by multitudes of small Crustacea and other minute forms 

 of maritime life, so that the food supply of the larvse is most ample, pro- 

 moting quicker growth and earlier maturity than occurs in the case of 

 species less bountifully supplied. A couple of weeks afterwards the rest 

 of this place was fully investigated and over fifty well chitinized examples 

 obtained, while many others were seen which were still immature. 



This species was described by Mr. Say from a specimen cast alive by 

 the waves on the sea beach of Senipuxten, Maryland, the last of Septem- 

 ber, and it is now recorded as occurring on the sea coast of New York, 

 New Jersey and Florida ; also Lake Pontchartrain, Louisiana. 



Amara fulvipes, Putz. — This beetle was unknown here till recently, 

 when Mr. Klages took a large number in a pasture field, where there 

 were cattle, late in the year (October) — many of them paired. I took it 

 in this city since at electric lights in June, and once in a field in a hilly 

 place later. It probably inhabits the hilly districts along the foot of the 

 Alleghanies. It is decidedly a fine species, belonging among the large 

 elongate forms (Lirus). It does not appear to be generally known, or 

 at least is not plentiful enough to appear on an exchange list, while none 

 have been received for identification. In the last two catalogues of 

 European Coleoptera there is an Amara ( Tricena) fulvipes, Serv., and if 

 my investigations are correct Putzey's species must be renamed. 



Bradycellus cognatus, Gyll. — Tachycelhis appears for the first time in 

 a general European catalogue, in edition IV., just published (May, 1891), 

 and under it is this species. While the first three joints of the antennae 

 are not really pubescent like those which follow, yet they are armed so 

 thickly with long thick hairs that its removal from Bradycellus seems 

 doubtfully justifiable. This species is native in Europe and in Asia, as 

 well as in North America. 



Qiiedius fulgidtis, Er. — This beetle has been taken in a more northern 

 latitude than is recorded of any other species. It was found during the 

 voyage of the Alert and Discovery towards the North Pole, 1875-76, at 

 Discovery Bay, in Grant Land, North America, in about lat. 82 ° . (Linn., 

 Jour. Zoology, XVI., 107.) This beetle is remarkable otherwise for the 

 ])ower it has of adapting itself to a variety of climates, being found like- 

 wise in very warm countries, as Asia Minor, Barbary, Java, Tasmania, 

 Australia, etc., in all of which it seems to be native. This world-wide 

 distribution has produced considerable variation, especially in its colora- 



