50 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Feb., '05 



A List of Coleoptera. 



Taken on the Summit of Mt. Stward, N. Y. 



BY C. O. HOUGHTON. 



On June 22, 1901, the writer, accompanied by Dr. A. D. 

 MacGillivray of Cornell University, spent a short time in col- 

 lecting insects upon the summit of Mr. Seward, one of the 

 highest peaks in the Adirondack Mountains.* 



This mountain lies ten or twelve miles to the east of Axton 

 and rises to a height of about 4500 feet above the sea level. 

 The sides are quite heavily wooded and in places very precipi- 

 tous and the top is thickly studded with dwarfed spruce and 

 balsam trees, so small that one can almost walk over the tops 

 of them although they have attained a considerable age. 



The trip to this mountain was made from Axton, on the last 

 day of our outing at that place f and owing to the roughness 

 of the road and the difficulties in the ascent only about a half 

 hour was available for collecting purposes at the summit ; and 

 this was about all we could endure, for the black flies (Siiini- 

 liinn sp.) simply swarmed there and rendered collecting well 

 nigh impossible. In all of our collecting in the low lauds 

 about Axton, although tormented a great deal by the black 

 flies and mosquitoes, we had experienced nothing like it and I 

 think that fully as much time was expended in trying to fight 

 off these pests as in our collecting operations. 



Near the point where we reached the top and from which 

 we did not venture far, as the trail ended there and the walk- 

 ing was very difficult, there was an old signal station which 

 had been made use of some time before. This was simply a 

 tower-like frame built up to a height of perhaps 15-20 feet 

 with poles cut from the sides of the mountain, and upon this 

 we secured a number of the beetles listed below. Our atten- 

 tion was chiefly directed to the collection of Coleoptera and 

 indeed, with the exception of the black flies, but few other 

 insects were seen. 



*Mt. Marcy, the highest, has an elevation of 5379 feet. 



fSee " A List of Insects Taken in the Adirondack Mountains, New 

 York I." By Alex. MacGillivray and C. O. Houghton HN TOMOLOGI- 

 CAL NEWS, Vol. XIII, 1902, p. 247. 



