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of apical part of femora, the apex and posterior portion of tibiae, its apex 

 and posterior portion of the first tarsal segment, its apex and base of 

 second and the apices of the third and fourth silvery yellowish ; other 

 parts dark brown. Tarsal claws simple. Length of body about 5 mm., 

 wing spread about 10 mm. 



Described from a single well marked specimen taken by Mr. 

 H. L- Viereck, at Branford, Conn., June 27, 1904. 



This species presents a somewhat general resemblance to 

 Culicada cantator Coq. It may be at once separated therefrom 

 by the simple claws and the peculiar character of the wing 

 fringe as noted above. It is also a much more distinctly 



marked species. 







Note on the finding of Ptinus fur and brunneus. 



BY G. R. PILATE, Dayton, Ohio. 



On November n, 1902, I found a few small Coleoptera on a 

 stick of wood I pulled out of a corner in my wood-shed. I 

 am only a beginner in the collection of Coleoptera and do not 

 know much about them, so I did not know what they were, 

 but thought I would look and see if I could not find a few 

 more. The corner of the wood-shed where I found them had 

 not been disturbed for two years or more, as I had no use for 

 the kindling that was piled there. I went to work to clean it 

 out, and found all the sticks and boards covered with the 

 beetles. In the far corner I found an old barrel in which the 

 rats had made a nest. There was about half a bushel of rat 

 dirt mixed with a lot of old paper and rags. When I dumped 

 this out on the floor, the beetles fairly swarmed out of it. 

 Being so many I took it for granted that they were common 

 and not worth bothering with. So I gathered about a hun- 

 dred and swept the rest out on the canal bank. That night 

 there was a heavy rain, and when I came to look for them a 

 few days after, dirt and all were washed away. Mr. Charles 

 Dury of Cincinnati identified them for me, and told me what 

 I had missed in not taking more of them. Without exaggera- 

 tion, I know I would have taken two thousand or more. I 

 was going to take up the floor of the shed and look under it, 

 but my wife was taken sick and I had no time to think more 

 of them. The next May I took a few stray specimens crawl- 

 ing about the shed. 



