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till recently all the examples in my collection were bred from dead 

 hickory limbs (once). All other observed records of its habits represent 

 it as inhabiting in its early stages pines. This is with scarcely a doubt 

 the species Dr. Fitch describes under the name "■' E. pinivora, Pine-eating 

 Gay-beard" (Rep. iv., 712), which he says differs from E. tomentosus by 

 the erect hairs on the body and antennse being black, a different form of 

 spots on the elytra and the smaller size. The last two are of no value, as 

 the length of iofne?itosus varies from .20 inch to .33 inch, and the elytra 

 from having scarcely perceptible patches of pubescence to the high 

 ornamentation of Dr. Fitch's pinivora, while the black colour of the 

 erect hairs was very probably an optical deception, from a perhaps care- 

 less comparison of bright fresh examples with older faded ones ; any one 

 who has the msect can readily see how this might occur, by examining a 

 specimen after night, or by a dull light. This species is distributed from 

 Florida to Canada, occurring in New York and Michigan. The locality 

 from which the hickory limbs from which my examples were bred were 

 obtained is remote from any place growing pine, and the occurrence can 

 scarcely be regarded as fortuitous. E. vestitjis is very commonly bred 

 here from hickory. 



Elieschiis, Can. Ent., XVI., 106. — The Elleschiis bipuficiatus, 

 mentioned at the place cited, proves to be one of the forms of E. scanicus, 

 Payk., as determined by Dr. W. G. Dietz on comparison with authenti- 

 cated European examples. The colour and the elytral markings of this 

 species seem to be locally variable, and in the present instance scarcely 

 or not differing from those of bipunctatus. This form has been sent me 

 from Europe as bipunctatus, but an examination of the structural 

 characters shows it to be the same as my American form. The typical 

 form of PaykuU was rufo-testaceous with fasciate elytra, and a similar 

 form was taken by Dr. Dietz at Hazleton, Pennsylvania, from which a 

 redescription of the species was made and a figure drawn (Tr. Am. Ent. 

 Soc, 18, 264, plate vii., fig. 35, 35a). As he had not then seen this form 

 it is not mentioned in Dr. Dietz's excellent paper, and from his descrip- 

 tion and figure of the species it would not be readily recognized as the 

 same. Some individuals have no markings whatever, not even a trace, 

 and all others have, more or less visible, the small spot on the disk of the 

 elytra before mentioned, any others being attributable to abrasion. The 

 colour varies from piceous to pale. This species is only known from 

 here, and at Hazleton certainly. Common throughout Europe on willow. 



