68 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [March, '05 



There was a new bridge built last year over the Miami River, 

 more accessible than the old one and taking one directly into 

 the rich hummock growth so delightful to a naturalist. Across 

 this bridge I went almost daily through the winter and early 

 spring, and one day, in a road or trail cleared through the 

 woods, I found my log. What a treasure house it proved to 

 an entomologist ! 



At first I feared it was too recently felled, the bark too fresh 

 and hard to be easily examined. But presently I found at one 

 end a loosened fragment of bark which, after some tugging and 

 pulling, I succeeded in removing, and at once my efforts were 

 rewarded. A half dozen specimens of the singular Brenthid, 

 B. anchorage, were lying there in a sort of mass, apparently 

 half torpid, though the weather was not cold to northern blood. 

 On being stirred up they stretched their long awkward legs and 

 strode away, though in no unseemly haste. This long-nosed, 

 shining, slender fellow is very variable in size, fully as much 

 so as the Cucujid, Catogenus rufus. I find specimens not only 

 under bark but on flowers in the bright sunshine. Scores of 

 Cossonus imprcssifrons mingled with the Brenthids and the 

 Scolytid, Xyleborus piibescens, lay in characteristic galleries 

 near by. 



On my knees in the warm white coral powder I gathered 

 in my harvest till my cyanide bottles were well filled and the 

 hour of luncheon approached. Of course I went logging again 

 next day and many to-morrows found me hard at work. Num- 

 ber and variety proved almost inexhaustible and the unex- 

 pected was always happening. It was not easy work. The 

 bark was very hard and tough. Blade after blade of my 

 knives snapped as I tried to cut into it, and for weeks my 

 hands were always blistered. Sitting or kneeling there for 

 hours at a stretch I grew stiff and cramped, warm and weary, 

 but I had a beautiful time ! A tiny Europs ran about in 

 dozens, a little Sacium prettily marked and probably an uncle- 

 scribed species was not uncommon and there were two or three 

 species of Lccmophloeus ; L. tnodestus the most abundant. 



There were also many specimens of a Ditoma which I had 

 collected in former seasons under the bark of various trees and 



