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Longport, New Jersey, in September. The identificalion is due to Mr. 

 H. Ulke, confirmatory of a like diagnosis by myself. The most, or in- 

 deed all of the species of Trogophloeus which I have heretofore taken, 

 occur wandering about in very wet places, taking refuge under leaves, 

 sticks, &:c.; but the present species differs in being found in places com- 

 paratively dry, and in constructing surface galleries like many of the 

 species of Bledius, some of which it closely resembles. Dr. Leconte 

 described the species from an individual from New York, and another 

 from Kansas, which, till the present time, do not appear to have been 

 duplicated. These two examples, measuring each .07 inch in length, 

 represent the smallest individuals ; the length of a number taken together 

 averaging over .09 inch. There are no thoracic impressions whatever 

 visible in the great majority of individuals, but occasionally one of the 

 larger ones bears indistinct traces of the usual basal marks, barely 

 discernible in certain lights. The smooth thoracic line is usually 

 conspicuous, which, with the piceous or black antennae and parti-coloured 

 feet, make this species of easy recognition. This species likewise occurred 

 on Brigantine Beach, and may be looked for in the salt marshes anywhere 

 along the Atlantic Coast. 



Callichroma splefididum, Lee. — This well-known and highly-prized 

 beetle is distributed along the Atlantic coast from Delaware to Key 

 West, Florida, around the Gulf of Mexico to Southwestern Texas, and 

 northward along the Mississippi to Arkansas. It is known to breed in 

 the trunk and immense roots of a tree growing in the Southern swamps, 

 especially in such as sustain Cypress, and is known in different places 

 by such names as Sour Tupelo, Large Tupelo, Wild Olive, Wild Lime, 

 Gum Elastic Tree, &c., being the Nyssa uniflora, Walt., congeneric with 

 N. inultijlora, Weng., the abundant and well-known Gum Tree, or Pep- 

 per idge, common in many of the Northern States. The leaves and fruit 

 of this tree, with several of its brilliant inhabitants, were recently received 

 from Alabama, by which I am able to confirm the one or two observed 

 records of its larval habits. It may, however, breed in other species of 

 trees, as the first example in my collection was presented by a young 

 naval surgeon, who took it on Key West, Florida, a place where Nyssa 

 probably does not grow. The individuals of this species vary 

 considerably in size, the sculpture of the thorax, and the colour of the 

 elytra. An individual from Delaware measures. 85 inch in length; the one 

 from Key West and another from Texas 1.70 inch each, but the average 



