1892.] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 6l 



through the kindness of Mr. Henry S. Harbeck, of New York City, two 

 specimens of this species with the following information, which I tran- 

 scribe: "While on a business trip to St. Johns, N. B., in April and .May, 

 1890, Mr. C. B. Riker, of Maplewood, N. J., devoted his leisure time to 

 collecting Coleoptera, and among his captures were fourteen Carabits 

 nemoralis, which, as you say, is the first authentic case of its occurrence 

 in North America. He says that the beetles were quite common and 

 those that he took were collected in less than an hour." From this it is 

 evident that nemoralis is fairly naturalized in America, and should now 

 be added to our list and placed after limbatits. G. H. HORN. 



HEXAPLASTA ZIGZAG (Riley). Although first made known as a native 

 of the cotton-growing States, this insect is a familiar inhabitant of New 

 England, being found during the first warm days of Spring upon the dan- 

 delion blossoms, and in July upon windows in company with two species 

 of Phora. The radial cell varies in being either open or closed. The 

 disc of the scutellum is convex. YV. H. PATTON, Hartford, Conn 



NOTE ON CYCHRUS. In the January number of ENT. NEWS, Mr. H. 

 F. Wickham gives a note on the geographical distribution of Cychrus, 

 which is very interesting, and an invitation to the readers thereof to fur- 

 nish more notes on geographical distribution. This brings to my mind a 

 little incident which may be of interest to the readers. In the early part 

 of Spring, 1890, while collecting on an island, situated on the beautiful 

 sandy New Jersey coast, I was pleasantly surprised by the capture of 

 Cychrus clevatus Fab. I did not expect to find the genus inhabiting this 

 locality. Although carefully searching I could only find the one. The 

 next day, about one-half mile from where I found the first, I had the re- 

 ward of capturing the second. The specimens differ very much from 

 those found on the mainland proper, as they are minus that beautiful lustre, 

 and the thorax is not so well developed, in all they resemble somewhat 

 more the Pacific coast fauna. As these are the only specimens of Cychrus 

 that I know of as having been found on the New Jersey coast, it is very 

 interesting, and I should be pleased to hear if other species have been 

 found inhabiting the islands along the coast. H. \Y. WKNZEL, Phila. 



Mrs. A. T. SLOSSON by this time has probably started on a trip t<> the 

 Southwest, taking in Louisiana, Texas, and perhaps Mexico. We suppose 

 that many bugs in those regions will have to deliver up some of their 

 interesting secrets. 



THE Anthophora described by me in Bull. U. S. Geol. Surv. v, is . /. 

 Ha/s/iii ?. I took A. Stni//iii in Kansas in iSSi, and have rovivnl 

 specimens of it from California, riistotrichia Mora \vitx, is a synonym of 

 Ant/i flphora; it differs merely in the individual aberration of the venation 

 described by me in Anthophora and Clisodon. \Y. H. Patton, Hartford. Ct. 



