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corded by him from Massachusetts and California ; Barber has 

 found it in New Jersey (Lakehurst) ; and I took it in Am- 

 herst, Mass., one long-winged and one short-, under leaves in 

 May. 



Very little indeed is known of these insects with us, so that 

 it may not be amiss to note here the habits of the more col- 

 lected and better known European species. 



Scolopostethits pictus, according to Puton, is found in ants' 

 nests ; Fieber states it is found under fallen leaves, under 

 plants on grassy mounds on dikes ; Guerin and Peneau find it 

 on lake shores in July, on willow ; Saunders took it in the Eng- 

 lish Fens. 



-S. affinis Schilling, Saunders reports as common in rubbish 

 and as taken by sweeping nettles in summer ; Douglas and 

 Scott say it is very common, especially under heath, nearly all 

 the year through ; Guerin and Peneau find it common all year, 

 in summer in the fields, on divers plants, in winter under moss ; 

 Fieber records it on dry stony mounds, under Erica (heath). 



These are typical of the habit of the other species ; all seem 

 to be found under leaves or near damp places or on dry fields, 

 some, indeed, in all three habitats. 



A New Genus and Species of Buprestidae (Col.). 



By H. C. FALL, Pasadena, California. 



AMPHEREMUS. New genus. 



Body narrow, subcylindric, mentum very strongly transverse, 

 arcuate anteriorly ; labrum short, bilobed ; epistoma broadly 

 sinuate. Antennal cavities rather large, separated by slightly 

 more than one-third the total width between^ the eyes, upper 

 margins oblique and slightly reflexed. Eyes moderate, their 

 inner margins nearly parallel. Terminal joint of maxillary 

 palpi widest at base, feebly conical, a little compressed, apex 

 truncate,, preceding joints obconic, as wide as long. Antennae 

 short, rather thick, serriform from the fourth joint, the serri- 

 form ioints densely finely punctate and opaque inferiorly and 

 apparently with very small intro-terminal sensory fossae. 



