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I forgot to mention that a single specimen of a dark Apocellus 

 Staphylinid beetle [A. tenuicornis Casey?] was taken March 

 2zd in the gallery of a Kangaroo rat, and in the same hole or 

 system of holes near the surface I found a large, dead Stenopel 

 matus, with the legs bitten of by the rat but otherwise not eaten. 

 My Indian helper, Benito, a very intelligent fellow, was well ac 

 quainted with this "Idaho devil " as an enemy to their agricul 

 tural plantations. Benito and I dug four days at these burrows 

 and I paid him $1.25 per day, so that the few insects found are 

 valuable. I feel sure there are more things to be found in sub 

 terranean mammals' holes, but the labor and expense of unearth 

 ing them are very great. It quite tired me out. 



MARCH 2, 1899. 



The I42d regular meeting was held at the residence of Mr. E. 

 A. Schwarz, 230 New Jersey Avenue N.W. Vice-President 

 Gill in the chair and Messrs. Ashmead, Schwarz, Motter, Pratt, 

 Dyar, Caudell, Chapin, Vaughan, Howard, Johnson, Patten, 

 Heidemann, Benton, Matthis, Currie, and Woods also present. 



Under the head of u Short notes and exhibition of specimens," 

 Mr. Benton stated that on January 22d he had found brood 

 honey bees in all stages of growth and new adults, indicating 

 egg-laying the last of December. This is a very early instance. 

 Mr. Matthis exhibited specimens of what he takes to be Bo- 

 reus brumalis Fitch, which he had caught upon the snow in the 

 Rock Creek valley after the recent blizzard. He showed by com 

 parison specimens of a Boreus which he had caught last Octo 

 ber at a high elevation on the Big Horn Mountains. This was 

 a larger and darker form than B. brumalis and has not been 

 specially identified. Mr. Schwarz stated that a Western Boreus 

 had been described by Hagen, and Mr. Ashmead stated that 

 Fitch's types of Boreus are in the U. S. National Museum. Mr. 

 Matthis remarked on the appearance of Boreus near Boston, and 

 Mr. Schwarz stated that these insects are common at Cambridge, 

 rarely being found on snow, but readily obtained by sifting moss 

 in early spring. 



Mr. Dyar showed a blown larva of Apatcla hcesitata Grt., 



