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specimen of our northern Sphinx, Ampelophaga versicolor. I 

 had no idea that its distribution was so extended. One after- 

 noon in early March I found, under a board, a colony of ants. 

 With them were many specimens of a dark Scarabaeid beetle. 

 As soon as I began trying to secure specimens of this the ants 

 covered my hands, biting sharply, while others surrounded 

 the beetles and hustled them, so to speak, into the burrows. 

 In spite of this I managed to take several specimens of the 

 beetles and of their hosts. But my hands smarted and tingled 

 for some minutes after the struggle. The beetles proved to 

 be Enparia castance, well know as one of our myrmecophilus 

 species. 



A few days after this I visited the place again, meaning to 

 secure more specimens, but the station was destroyed. Some 

 one had removed a portion of the boards formerly lying there 

 and dumped a load of rubbish in their place, and my ants and 

 their visitors were gone, or at least hidden from my searching 

 eyes. 



A few days before I left Miami, on a cold, raw day with high 

 winds, while standing at a closed east window which looks out 

 upon the bay, I saw a minute dark speck on the white sill out- 

 side. Opening the window I moistened my finger, took up 

 the little dot and dropped it into a cyanide bottle. Occupied 

 with other things, I forgot the capture until, some time after, 

 I saw a similar speck upon same sill. I took that and after- 

 wards another and another, until I had, I think, eight or nine. 

 On examination I found them to be beetles, most dainty, 

 graceful little creatures, evidently L/atridiids, but quite un- 

 known to me. They were identified by Mr. L/iebeck as Bclonia 

 unicostata Belou. The genus was erected by Mr. Fall for this 

 species and named for the distinguished French entomologist 

 who found the types in Mexico. Hubbard and Schwarz took 

 two specimens in Florida. There is on all my specimens a 

 conspicuous chalky deposit which makes the head and thorax 

 pure white. This is not referred to by Belon or Fall, and was 

 evidently not present in the specimens before them. In speak- 

 ing of the genus Metophthalmus, Mr. Fall makes mention of 

 a similar white deposit on its species. 



